We argued for a while but got nowhere as we had no idea where the Blood Demons might be. .
According to what Lilian said, the Blood Demons were nomads, so they didn’t have a fixed place to live, so we don’t know where to start the search.
“(Maybe the Queen knows something? She seems to have lived a long time, besides the Blood Demons must have some connection with this city since the Devotees of the Goddess Selene live here.)” (I)
After a long time of thinking I decide to stop everything until I talk to the Queen again, this time I must send a request to find the Queen again, it would be disrespectful to invade the castle a second time.
I write a letter and give it to Ragnar and Freya to take to the castle, I didn’t specify the reason for the visit, I just said it’s an important matter.
With everything temporarily settled we went to a small restaurant where our large group packed the place to eat.
After the restaurant everyone splits up to do their own thing, Leo and Caryna as well as other couples went out to find love.
Nolan went out with Ivan to play, Samira went out with her sister and Elsaris’ children for a family day, Jade went with her mother Sapphire to the Arena which was the Adventurers Guild’s training ground, and Ibuki made a group with the other people to see the Demon Dungeon he had near the city.
Leonardo disappeared before anyone could notice, I sent the strongest Fairies in the Dungeon after him to protect this idiot who left without a word.
Vanessa said she would look for the Temple of Blood in that city and Lilian went along, Lilith wanted to take the opportunity to see if she could find any Temple of the Demon God of Vengeance and went with Vanessa too, I asked Vanessa to take care of this crazy person for safety.
Nix wanted to sleep and stayed behind resting in a relaxed way, I went along with Layla, Orion, and Sakura to see the city, and Karina wanted to come along with me since I haven’t spent much time with her since she joined our group.
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I was walking down the street getting strange looks from some people, most of the people well noticed my presence, but those who did always had smiling or angry faces when they saw me.
“(This is a little uncomfortable.)” (I)
In addition to these people on the street, I also started to feel eyes watching me from hidden places.
“You really draw attention wherever you go.” (Karina)
“I hate this situation.” (I)
“You plan on staying here for a while, so why don’t we go to these gambling houses, there are so many people coming and going.” (Karina)
“…” (I)
I look around and notice these gaming houses, they all have a big, wide entrance that lets you see the fun inside, but somehow the sound can’t be heard outside.
I look at the signs and posters written in two languages, the common language, and the Demon language, on them, are written the names of these Casinos and the “big events” that are happening.
I go into a few and notice that they all have card games, these traditional card games from my world didn’t have here or weren’t popular.
In this world they used these monster cards that Nolan taught me about, these cards are quite complex as they have many types like skill cards, monster cards, people with jobs cards, spell cards, item cards, and field cards.
All these cards have real correspondents in this world, they helped people to have more knowledge about various factors while helping to train the mentality of healthy people for a moment of life or death.
But in Casinos there were different gaming tables, there were tables for normal play where all cards were used, there were tables where only monster cards and skill cards were used, there were tables where only cards from people with jobs and spell cards were used, etc.
There were different card games where luck and strategy were used, there were also bets on the winner of some of these games, there were games similar to board games, but instead of chess, they were games with simulations of waves of monsters against an army, the player controls the army to defend against the Wave of Monsters completely random used strategy, but would also have to rely on luck.
I noticed that there weren’t any sort of games based solely on luck like rosettes, dice, slot machines, and card games like 21.
At first, I was confused by this as it is these types of games of chance that can be more easily manipulated to make people lose money, but I soon understood.
In this world luck was a but a tangible statistic, a stat that could really influence a situation, for example, my luck was negative and I would probably lose any kind of game that relies only on luck, because of that I wouldn’t even think about participating of those games, but a strategy-based game where the deciding factor is still my ability is worth a try.
The real problem would be if someone with great luck entered and played dice games, rosettes and other games of pure luck, at that moment the Casino will only lose money, because of that this world doesn’t have many games of chance, maybe that’s why it has so many types of bets made in this type of place.
I even noticed that there was a place in the Casino for bets on the city’s Arena competitions that will take place this week.
“I’ve never been good at card games, but I’m good at strategy, maybe I should give it a go, the magical simulation of this place doesn’t seem that difficult.” (Karina)
“I think I go to card games, Nolan has been teaching me this whenever I have spare time, I’m a little confident…” (I)
I look at her and play various card games as she goes to the large table made of the reading crystal where she reaches into a box and chooses a small crystal storage cube at random and fits it on the table before starting to read a simulation that will play, it almost looked like a video game.
Unfortunately, my games were horrible, I could never draw the cards I wanted, and because of that I always lost in every game I played, people even started laughing at me and offering to play with me just to steal my money.
After 30 minutes without winning I stopped and declined any further game as I went to where Karina was, there was a crowd of people around her and the Casino employee had an angry face.
When I approached she was laughing while drinking a bottle of some strong drink, and he was touching the simulation table with great speed while organizing his battle strategies, when I saw one employee waving to another with an even more annoyed expression I pulled her out of the Casino before heading to the street stalls.
I was sad that I only lost while Karina kept talking about how easy and fun these games were.
