Day 281-290/Day 288

Day 288
I've been in the casino since yesterday, and I found myself staying up all night. At first I was enjoying a game between the customers, but I won so much that I had to play a game with the casino side. But I still kept winning, and I have a dozen or so of the highest amount of platinum chips - each worth a white gold coin - piled up in my hand.
The reason I went in here and enjoyed the game was to raise the military funds needed to capture the【Holy Land of Gambling】, but it was already about 30 percent more than the chips I had originally planned. The chips used by casinos in the city are common chips that can be used in other casinos as well, with a few exceptions, so I had planned to round up the chips as soon as my original objective of raising military funds was completed.
This is because the casinos other than the【Holy Land of Gambling】always have a manager, so I thought it would be difficult to manage if I won too much. However, before I left, the manager of the casino - one of the 3 largest casinos in the city,【Deems-Lucked】, who looks like a pig, came over and said in a low voice to the dealer who was running the game, 'Collect your money at all costs, or you're fired. If you can't, you're fired.'
The manager looked at me with the eyes of an acrimonious enemy in front of him. So I decided to continue until the end. Let's squeeze it out to the very last minute, he said.
Basically, in casinos, the casino side is supposed to win in the end. The system is designed to create a situation in which it looks like they are winning, but in the end, they are losing in the long run.
However, there are some customers who continue to win with their luck, so they often employ a great dealer who is a bouncer, using various techniques to collect their money. It's natural for this to happen even in this place, and the quality and quantity are commensurate with the scale. The few dealers we have dealt with so far are also very good. If it were any other casino, they would be able to reign as top dealers.
But they still lost to me. Each time they did, my stack of chips got higher and higher.
Some dealers cheated by changing the cards they dealt at a moment's notice, but I could see through the slightest behavior and stop them. I got quite a lot of chips. By the way, since cheating by a dealer in a casino directly leads to a loss of trust in the casino, they will be fired at once if their cheating is exposed.
Although the manager had set them up, the dealers who were found out by me to be cheating would probably be out of a job from tomorrow. It's a hard thing to know, but I'll just have to ask them to give up on the idea that this is just another case of the law of the jungle.
In the meantime, if all of the platinum chips I had obtained were taken away,【Deems-Lucked】was in a position where it would be in a difficult financial situation.
The manager finally got impatient with that, and he brought out his trump card. In front of me is a dandy demon middle-aged man.The spectators around me said that the dealer in front of me is one of the top 5 in the city in terms of skill. He rarely appears on the scene, but when he does, he always wins.
I played blackjack with such a dealer. The dealer relentlessly shuffled brand-new playing cards, and in between, adjusted the positions of the cards with an almost imperceptible skill.If the cards are manipulated the way the dealer wants them to be, it's usually very difficult for me to win.
Normally, the dealer's skills would not be crazy, but for once, they were slow. It may be a little bit of mental pressure from the fact that I saw through the cheating of the dealers who played the game before the demon dealer, but with the physical pressure from my gaze and overwhelming presence, and【Golden Rule】,【Happy Elephant Wealth】, and【Luck】strongly pushed my victory.
The first thing that happened was a small mistake due to slow movement, which gradually built up and twisted the path to victory that the demon dealer had set up. As a result, I didn't do anything in particular relying on my abilities, but at last I beat the demon dealer and had a pile of platinum chips on hand.
As expected, seeing as I had defeated the demon dealer who was the manager's trump card, before he passed the point of no return, the manager surrendered.
While feeling disappointed, I decide that if I completely crush the casino right now, I'll have fewer pawns when I take over the Labyrinth City. I leave with a huge amount of chips in hand.
Since I was able to secure more money than I planned, I decided to take on the【Holy Land of Gambling】, which will be the real deal, tomorrow, and decided to go around the city in various ways today. At that time, an old woman who was opening a shop asked me if I wanted a good luck charm, and offered me an earring with a small crystal embedded in it.
The earrings are a kind of magic item and are called a lucky necklace. It is a magic item that only slightly raises your【Luck】, cheap enough that you can buy it with a child's pocket money, it is a magic item that sells reasonably well in this city but is not looked at by other cities. From what I've seen in my hand, it seems to be a [Normal] grade item that is close to the [Inferior] grade. Although there are many of them, it seems that they are not that useful.
However, thinking about the future, I decided that it would be helpful to raise the level of【Luck】I have and bought all she had. Perhaps because there were so many of them, my【Luck】level increased more than I thought, so it was definitely a good purchase. If I encountered the old woman again, I would buy more.
By the way, it seems that Avenger and company made a lot of money by competing in the Colosseum and constantly winning. In the end, they even defeated the champion of the Colosseum, it's not a bad way to spend your time.
I could use the money I earned today to buy various personal items. I'll restrain myself since I need the money for the original purpose of coming here.
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