Todd, who has never been in contact with aristocrats since traveling to another world, still has the impression in his mind from the film and television works, novels and comics in his previous life. He once thought that this group represented nobility and elegance. Therefore, in order to get the silver ring
When it comes to selling rights in the city and his actions at the card table, the first thing he thinks of is his past life experience. All he has to do is deliberately lose a few pots of roses in the gambling game, so that everyone can have fun with each other, and then compete with these
If people are calm and have a mutually beneficial negotiation, everything will naturally fall into place and fall into place.
This is what he originally thought.
But he forgot one important thing after all. This is not the previous life of civilization at all, but a medieval world where barbarism and darkness coexist. Any code of conduct and social cognition that has been verified as effective in the past will be completely subverted here.
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If Bishop Fabian's warning can only be regarded as a warning; the nobles' cheating in gambling can only be regarded as an unpleasant episode; then the inhuman treatment of alien species really made Todd understand this truth.
These so-called aristocrats in front of us are just synonyms for barbarism and tyranny. Their greed is like a bottomless abyss that never stops.
In this case, it is better to untie the chains of the "greedy" beast and watch it devour everything...
Todd returned to the gambling table and picked up a playing card made of silver-copper alloy. The front of the card was a hand-painted pattern and the back was a smooth mirror-like plane. He tried to use the power of "perspective" to see through
There is no problem at all in seeing through this thin layer of metal. Although the pattern on the front is vaguely visible, distinguishing the cards is a piece of cake.
Viscount Kennard asked Todd: "Father, I wonder what you mean by playing bigger?"
"Have you ever heard of the geometric sequence?"
People looked at each other, no one knew.
Todd picked up a playing card in his hand and said slowly: "Losing one is 10 silver moons."
He held up the second one: "The second one is doubled, which is 20 silver moons."
The third one: "The third one is doubled again, which is 40 silver moons."
He raised the three cards in his hand together: "If the card game ends and I still have three cards in my hand, I will lose 70 silver moons in gambling chips. Except for the replacement method of calculating the gambling chips according to the number of cards stored, all other rules are
Same, how about it?"
The Viscount carefully calculated it. If the previous bet had been played according to this method, Todd would have already won all the roses in his hands. How could it be delayed until now? Besides, even in the worst case scenario, a lot of people would lose.
A thousand silver moons, this is no pain or itch to him.
After exchanging glances with another nobleman at the card table, Kennard nodded: "I'm tired of winning dozens of silver moons every game, so I'll just do what you said! But, you have
So much money?”
Todd looked at the pot of roses placed in front of the Queen, then at the eleven pots of roses placed behind the Viscount, and asked: "For flowers that grow in this sacred place, do you agree with the price?
Is it the same as before?"
"I just checked with someone. A pot of 50 silver coins is still the same price!"
Todd nodded, indicating that he had no objection.
At this time, Queen Mary, who was sitting on the throne, opened her mouth to say something, but after looking at the priest's expression for a while, she finally gave up her words.
The card game started again under the new rules, and Todd was doing two things, playing cards while using his powers to check everything around him.
Soon, he noticed that the two nobles at the card table looked up and glanced behind him from time to time.
Todd turned the back of the card toward his shoulder and used the ability of "Eagle Eye" to carefully distinguish the glowing mirror image. A footman not far behind him who frequently touched his head attracted his attention.
This person sometimes touches his ears with his hands, sometimes touches the bridge of his nose with his hands, and sometimes puts his fingers up and sometimes puts them down.
"Peeper"?
Take a peek at your opponent's cards and then use hand gestures to signal. It's an old-fashioned cheating method, but it's simple and effective.
Then using the power of "clairvoyance" to look at the table in front of him, Todd discovered that there was another mystery in the pile of cards between the two people opposite.
The two nobles on the opposite side stacked the cards together on the table, face down, and the thumbs of both hands pointed inward, blocking other people's sight. There was a hidden groove at the bottom of the table, which could be made to appear when the palms were pressed hard.
, slide the smooth metal card along the channel in the table to the end of the channel at the other end. The other person can pop the playing cards in the channel into his hand as long as he presses his palm again.
Todd shook his head. It seemed that these people had really worked hard for this bet.
At the end of the game, Todd lost 4 cards as a pirate and needed to pay 150 silver moons (10+20+40+80) to the viscount as a knight. In the astonishment of the onlookers, the gambling chips were converted into three pots of roses.
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"Are you sure you want to continue?"
Unexpectedly, this voice actually came from Queen Mary. The latter stood up from her seat and looked at the priest. There was something in her eyes that he couldn't understand.
Todd looked at her for a while, then nodded heavily.
The queen sighed, waved her hands, and sat back down again.
A new round has begun.
This time it was Todd's turn to become a knight. After repeated defeats, he asked to shuffle the cards himself.
Viscount Kennard looked at him with a funny look, as if he was looking at an idiot who had lost to the extreme and started to mess around. He agreed to this request quite generously.
The way Todd shuffled the cards was quite strange. He laid all the cards face down and back up on the table. While chanting a prayer, he took out the cross from his chest and tapped three times on the back of each card.
Next, after finishing all this, pack up the cards one by one.
The Viscount laughed loudly. He looked at the priest and said, "Are you still expecting miracles from Heavenly Father?"
Todd glanced at him, pointed at the rose flower pot in front of him, and said piously: "Isn't what you see in front of you enough to prove the supreme power?
Kennard put away his smile, glanced at the cross in the priest's hand, swallowed, and said no more.
The servants began to deal the cards, first Todd, then the two nobles, and they distributed them in circles. However, everyone found that the priest allowed the cards to be scattered on the table, and did not pick them up or organize them, but stayed there silently.
Praying.
The Viscount first glanced at the cards in his hand with excitement, then glared at Todd, who was motionless, and tapped the table with his knuckles. He reminded: "Father, you should play the cards first."
"Heavenly Father has sent down the Holy Judgment, and the outcome of this game has been decided."
Listening to the other party's words, Kennard's anger surged: "Heavenly Father has no control over my card table! Pick up your cards, Father!"
Todd glanced at him, stretched out his hands, and turned over his own cards on the table one by one.
When people saw the cards, they laughed lightly at first, then fell silent, and finally gasped.
"To 3, to 4, to 5, to 6, to 7, to 8, to 9, to 10, to J...Nine pairs in a row!"
Seeing the two people on the other side dumbfounded and the cards in their hands falling to the ground, Todd slowed down his speech and began to calculate the bets little by little.
"The first card is 10 silver moons, the second card is 20 silver moons, the third card is 40 silver moons, the fourth card is 80 silver moons, the fifth card is 160 silver moons, the sixth card is 320 silver moons...
The seventeenth card is 1310720 silver moons, the eighteenth card is 2621440 silver moons, and the total for one person is 5242870 silver moons. Oh, I almost forgot, if a card is not played, it should be tripled, which is 15728610 silver moons.
Moon. If you two are together, it will be 31,457,220 silver moons."
The priest pushed back his chair, stood up, straightened his clothes, glanced at the dead silent hall, and said with a smile: "It may take some time to prepare more than 30 million silver moons. But this kind of defaulting on the debt
I don’t think it will happen. Both of you are respectable people, not to mention so many people are present today, and Her Majesty the Queen even witnessed this bet in person.”
Viscount Kennard collapsed on the chair, his face turned earth-colored, his body shook, and the dark mark on his crotch became larger and larger.
"Oh, that's right!" Todd snatched the chain of the young alien girl from the dull-looking servant, and said loudly to the people: "Dealing with alien species is naturally a matter of the church, and all distinguished people are asked to raise your hands and cooperate with the work.
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Todd took the girl to the door of the hall, turned back to the silent hall and said: "Please be pious at all times, please remember that Heavenly Father is always watching us."