novelonline Chapter 2815 [Destiny Casino]
Chapter 2815 [Destiny Casino]
Chapter 2815 [Destiny Casino]
In the frozen dream, a moment seemed to last forever. The lady admiring the moon embraced Shade, listening to the "other me" beside her saying things like "the power of the curse has been activated" and "you have some understanding of time", and then gradually felt that she was being driven away by this dream.
So she looked at Xia De for the last time, and when she opened her eyes in her chair, the young man was no longer sitting on the seat next to her. Only the silver ring was lying there, shining brightly.
She picked up the ring and held it in her hand, then sat in the dark performance hall looking at the empty stage. For some reason, she felt extremely lost.
(Little Mia is running.)
On the other side, Shad certainly did not return to the late autumn of 1854. Although Ms. Helena Carter's conjecture and approach made sense, if it were so easy to travel to the future, the time stability of the material world would be too poor.
While sleeping in his dream, Xia De vaguely felt that he was not leaning against a big tree, but against something soft. But when he woke up again, he found himself standing in a familiar white mist:
“So, was this a success?”
The glowing white mist filled every corner of his vision. This situation was something Shade was very familiar with:
"It doesn't look like success. Where is this place?"
[Outsider, you have entered the "Casino of Destiny". ]
The "she" beside him laughed softly, and Xia De blinked, wondering if he had heard it wrong. Although this was the first time he heard this name, combined with the naming method and the surrounding environment, it was hard for him not to think that this place was similar to the [Space Maze], [Earth Core Furnace], [Holy White Chapel] and the like:
"Fate.Casino? Wait, the ancient god of fate [Mr. Huan] is also called [Ouroboros], so that [Ouroboros Ring] can't be..."
After taking two more steps forward, the clanging sounds of dice falling and colliding gradually became clearer. As he continued forward, he could hear countless people shouting and yelling in the white fog.
The sound didn't make Xia De feel too noisy, but was just like background noise, which made him not pay too much attention to it.
Continue walking forward, the white fog gradually dissipates, the walls around you rise, and a table appears not far in front of you.
By the time Shad arrived at the table, the hall had already taken shape. The four golden walls, ceiling, and floor together formed a place that looked larger than St. Teresa's Square.
Countless tables were densely packed and arranged in an irregular pattern here, but because there was still white mist here, Xia De could see the figures of people beside the tables and hear countless people shouting here, but the only table he could see clearly was the table in front of him.
The table was rectangular, with curved corners and a green table carpet on the top. Judging from the squares drawn on the carpet, it was clearly a standard Rhodes card table.
"It really is a casino. But the problem is that even if there is no need for a referee, there must be at least an opponent to gamble."
He thought about this and came to one end of the long table. Then, from another blurry gambling table near this table, a figure walked out of the fog:
"Everyone who comes here to seek a change of fate will leave behind a trace of their own image, and the opponents of those who come later are those who have won something from this casino."
The figure said, and when he came to the opposite side of Shade, Shade saw that it was a tall and thin old gentleman. The other party's clothes obviously did not belong to the Steam Age of the Sixth Epoch, and the other party was indeed not a human being. He was more like a mixture of memories, shadows, spirits, and other things that Shade could not explain.
The old gentleman placed his hands on both sides of the table:
"What you want to win from this is the chance to go back to 1854, right?"
Although he was still a little confused about this, Xia De nodded:
"Yes, I can go back as long as I win, right?"
"Don't be so anxious. Since it's a gamble, in addition to the prize, you also need your own bet."
His eyes scanned Shad:
"The key hanging on your chest or the sword with a scabbard in your hand can be used as a bet. Don't say this casino is unfair. What you want is to accurately locate a future time point without endangering the stability of time."
Shad nodded in agreement, but did not take the key. The key belonged to long-haired Luvia, and he could not take the risk.
So he put the Night Watch on the table:
"Shall we play Rhodes? What are the rules?"
The old gentleman placed his hand on the table, and a complete deck of cards appeared under his hand:
"This is your first time here, and I'm sure you'll come many times, so let's keep it simple this time.
Draw a card, we bet on the size, the bigger the number, the wins, the same number, the sun is bigger than the moon, bigger than the stars, bigger than the flowers, the king is bigger than the queen, they are bigger than any number. "
"Okay, that's easy."
Shade also took out his deck and placed it on the table. However, the old gentleman did not ask Shade to shuffle the cards or check each other's decks. Instead, he motioned for Shade to join him and said:
"I will make a fair bet in the name of Mr. Huan. May the Ouroboros protect me from the uncertain fate."
Only by swearing in the name of the ancient gods can one avoid cheating.
After that, Shad flipped over the top card of his deck. Although he remembered that the top card was Star 12's [Big City Player, 1853 Tobesk Champion], after flipping it over, it turned out to be a common card "Flower 11".
As for the old gentleman opposite, the card he turned up was the Moon 7:
"you win."
He shook his head:
"Newbies always have newbie luck. Congratulations. I hope you'll come back next time and bring more valuable bets. The Fate Casino welcomes people like you who have an unpredictable fate."
"But how do we get in here?"
Xia De was puzzled, put down his cards, and the old gentleman who pressed the edge of the table with both hands again smiled and said:
"When you are ready to use everything you have to seek the possibility of a change in your fate, the [Fate Casino] will definitely open its doors for you. Or, Ouroboros will guide you in the right direction."
(Little Mia is running.)
In the present world, in the sixth era, in the autumn of the year 1854 in the universal calendar, on the 16th day of the month of Dead Leaves, at : a.m., in the Accordion Hotel, in the city of Vista, in the United Kingdom of Carsonrick.
The red-haired girl who was waiting for news in the hotel seemed a little anxious. When Iluna received the news and left half an hour ago, she was already worried about Shad's situation. Soon after, the news came that Shad was safe, but calculating the time, they should have returned long ago.
Besides her, there were also Miss Bell and two witch followers from the Central Ring in the hotel at this time, but she didn't want to tell them about her worries.
The blocks in the east of the city seemed to be on fire, and the golden lightning that had flashed across the sky not long ago had long since disappeared. She already regretted agreeing to stay instead of letting Flora stay.
There was nothing she could do but get anxious, but she decided that if there was no news by three o'clock, she would leave the hotel and go look for them in the woods herself.
I returned to the sofa from the window and wanted to pick up the book on the coffee table, but I felt that I didn't have the mood to read it even if I picked it up. At this moment, a silver light appeared beside me, and then a letter floated out from the flash.
She recognized that this was the method of delivery used by Professor Pigman, the "Silver Keeper" and the principal of St. Byron's, and the short letter read:
[Professor Danister, please come to the principal's office to see me. I have something urgent to discuss with you. It will take about five minutes of your time.]
Below was a signature and a red seal of the principal, and inside the envelope was a fiery red feather, a feather from a sage-level relic called the Piercing Bird, the most commonly used space item in the academy. Unfortunately, the effect of this relic could only allow the trigger of the feather to appear around the relic, rather than allowing the person to travel through space at will.
"It's two o'clock in the morning. Is there anything important happening at this time, Emilia?"
So she said hello to Miss Bell, held the feather and appeared in the corridor on the fifth floor of the main castle of the academy. After she reached out to let the big red bird that wanted to beg for food go back into the cage, she spoke a few words to the students who were guarding the relic, and then knocked on the door of the principal's office.
The door of the principal's office is silver. It was made by the "Silver Keeper" himself. Its sturdiness inside the academy is second only to the academy gate and the library gate.
Behind the door was not an ordinary office, but a spiral staircase. Because the principal's office was not a single room, but the east side tower of the main castle of the entire college.
There is no need to climb the stairs, as they will automatically rotate upwards after you step on them. The door at the end of the stairs is the principal's office, and the rest of the tower is the principal's private room.
The room was lit by gas lamps, and a brass clock in the corner ticked its hands. There were several decorative oil paintings hanging on the walls of the office, but they were not portraits of past presidents of the college, but landscapes from various parts of the college - these paintings were actually portals that could directly connect to the locations described in the pictures.
The pet mouse was lying on the purple cushion in the corner of the desk with its eyes closed, while the principal in formal attire was waiting for her behind the desk:
"Good evening, Professor Danister, please take a seat."
The red-haired girl was already familiar with the furnishings in the principal's office. She nodded, removed her illusion disguise, and sat on the chair outside the imposing desk.
"Good evening, Professor Pigman. Where's Emilia? Not about this? You didn't call me here so late to discuss the college funding for next year, did you?"
PS: I shouldn’t have put that paragraph in the main text yesterday. I’ll add another chapter today.