A place where both the rich and middle class people come to get rid of their problems by getting rid of their money. It's a place where people of all levels can play games to win money or lose big.
Frankly people lose more to the house than win, but it's not uncommon for them to win sometimes.
Many places have such gambling houses for people to relax their nerves from the pain of life.
The City of Magbeth had one too.
It wasn't the greatest in the kingdom nor too novae rich either, but just the perfect one for both rich and normal people to have fun in. It's at such a place that I've come to accomplish my first part of the three steps.
The lighting inside the place wasn't too bright, it was just enough for everyone to be happy with. But it also worked greatly against the house which would sometimes tip the scales in their favor or the cheaters who would do the same.
There were a lot of tables with multiple people playing many games. Dice Count, Craps, Poker, Cock Fight etc.
It was also from this place that all those noises were coming from. But the place wasn't just that, there was a bar too. The bar acted as a place for the winners to celebrate their win and also for the losers who got even more dissatisfied with life to drink their sorrows.
But I didn't come here to make a documentary about them now, right?
I look around before finding a place with the most noise and people gathering around the office.
'Did it already start?'
I go towards the place and mingle with the crowd before asking one of the guys, "Hey" Thɪs chapter is updated by novel⁂fire.net
"Don't call me, can't you see I'm seeing a entertainin-" The guy who got annoyed at my call yelled. But quickly silenced himself when he saw a wolfman and the almost seven feet tall me behind him.
"Ye- Yeah, do you need something, sir?"
"Bro, what happened over here?"
"You mean this commotion?" He pointed in front of him as I nodded.
"Oh Shit! You don't know?" He laughed sneakily, "Something fun just happened man. Something extremely big."
"Mind sharing the fun over here."
"You see that guy over there, sitting on the bench like he got fucked hard?"
We both looked at the front where indeed there was a guy who wore decent looking clothes and felt rich but was sitting on the table like he got fucked hard.
"That guy is a noble called Bailin Hole. If I'm right he's a Baron."
"No, he's a viscount." Another guy from the crowd corrected him.
"Oh Yeah! Thanks. So he's a viscount and apparently a regular player at this place too. It's said that the guy had lost multiple times at this place but still refuses to gamble." The guy explaining said as he looked at the guy with anger, not pity.
"Recently today, he suddenly bet big and lost over twenty thousand pounds."
'Twenty Thousand Pounds!' That word kept reverberating around Raven.
To him, hundred pounds was a big number and one that has significant meaning to it. Because he and his own brothers were sold to Henry on the account of hundred pounds each.
So for someone to lose two hundred times more than that to a gambling addiction was quite hard to understand for Raven.
'Why lose so much money for nothing?'
"So he lost a lot of money to the gambling house, right?"
"Yeah" The guy nodded, "But do you know what's surprising," He leaned in with an excited smile, "The fucker didn't even have that much money on him?"
"What!" For the first time Raven spoke as he was confused, "Then how did he lose so much money?"
"That I don't know. I heard that the owner of the gambling house believed his words because he was a regular loser and a noble so that's why without even checking it, he accepted the bet. But if you ask me, Regular noble or not, when money comes in connection, you can never be sure who does what really."
"Wise words, brother." The guy beamed at me, "So what happened next?"
"As you can guess, the house wanted its money but the guy didn't have any. That made the owner extremely mad, so mad that he was about to kill him right there but then a girl appeared."
"This girl came and pleaded to the owner about letting the guy go and that they'll pay back his money shortly." He scratched his head, "Apparently that girl was the guy's daughter and she was extremely beautiful too."
"Soo beautiful that the owner gave a new term to the noble. That his bets will be forgiven if he gave his daughter to him."
"The guy accepted and the girl was about to be taken away by the owner when suddenly a boy appeared and started blaming the owner. They had some argument before the owner, boy and the girl went inside the office to talk out a solution."
"Bro, did that kid perhaps had blue hair?"
"Yeah, how'd you know?"
"Just a lucky guess, haha." The guy felt confused at my laughter, "So how long had they been inside?"
The guy sighed as he was annoyed, "It's been some time since they went in. If you believe me, I think the kid just wanted a share of the girl so he and the owner are double teamin-"
"They're coming out!"
"The girl and the boy's out too."
Because of our tall stature, Raven and I were able to see clearly what was happening.
The door to the small office opened and came out two guys and a girl. The guy at the front was middle aged with some mustache and the other guy was Arthur, who looked like he was about to go to war. Then lastly there was the girl, she was quite beautiful in her chestnut colored dress and green blue eyes.
A beauty you would expect in a heroine.
But right now, she wasn't smiling the least. She had a horrified expression as she was on the verge of crying and breaking down. Her eyes were on Arthur as she looked at him with her last hope.
'Damn! It's only been like a few minutes and the girl already looks as if she's in love with him… if only such beautiful girls fell in love with me back in my previous world.' I sigh at the thought.
The owner came and sat on a table with two cups and dices as he said, "Kid, I'll ask again. You really want to do this?"
Arthur marched towards the opposite seat before slamming his sword with its hilt at the table and saying, "Of Course I am! Don't break your own words!"
"Hmph! Such arrogance… you should know, I never lost to people in a game of dice."
"That's about to change today." Arthur said as the owner gave him a snort.
"What is happening here?" The guy who was explaining to us asked.
"The blue haired guy and the owner talked this out. Blue bet on his sword in this game and if he won then the girl will go with him and the bet will be erased."
"Really!... But how'd you know that?"