Alien Knights

Since traveling to another world, Todd, who has never been in contact with nobles, still has the impression of those film and television works and novels and comics in his previous life. He once thought that this group represented nobility and elegance. Therefore, in order to obtain the right to sell in Yinhuan City, the first thing he thought of was the experience of his previous life when he acted at the poker table. What he has to do is to deliberately lose a few pots of roses in the game of gambling, so that everyone can be happy with each other, and then negotiate with these people in a calm and mutually beneficial manner. Everything will come naturally and naturally.

He originally thought so.

But he forgot one important thing after all, this is not the past life of civilization at all, but a medieval world where wildness and darkness coexist. Any code of conduct and social cognition that have been proven to be effective in the past will be completely subverted here.

If the exhortation of Bishop Fabian can only be regarded as a warning; the cheating of the nobles in the game of gambling can only be regarded as an unpleasant episode; then the inhuman treatment of aliens really made Todd understand such a truth.

The so-called nobles in front of them are just synonymous with barbarism and domineering. Their greed is like a bottomless abyss, and there is no word "stop".

That being the case, how about untying the chains on the "greedy" monster and watching it devour everything...

Todd returned to the gaming 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. Trying to use the "perspective" ability, it was no problem to penetrate this thin layer of metal. Although the pattern on the front was faintly visible, it was a piece of cake to distinguish the face of the card.

Viscount Kennard asked Todd: "Father, I don't know what you mean by playing bigger?"

"Have you ever heard of the geometric sequence?"

People look at each other, no one knows.

Todd picked up a poker card in his hand and said slowly: "If you lose one card, you will get 10 silver moons."

He held up the second one: "The second one is doubled, which is 20 silver moons."

The third card: "The third card is doubled again, which is 40 silver moons."

He raised the three cards in his hand together: "If the game is over and I still have three cards in my hand, I will lose 70 silver moons of bets. Except for the replacement of the bets based on the number of stored cards, the other rules are all the same, how about it?"

The Viscount carefully calculated, if the previous game, according to this way of playing, all the roses in Todd's hands had already been won, how could it be delayed until now. Besides, even in the worst case, he would lose thousands of silver moons, which is no pain to him.

After exchanging glances with another nobleman at the poker table, Kennard nodded: "I'm tired of winning a round of tens of silver moons, so I'll just do as you said! But, do you have so much money?"

Todd glanced at the pot of roses placed in front of the queen, then at the eleven pots of roses placed behind the viscount, and asked, "Do you still agree to the same price as before for the flowers grown in this sacred place?"

"I just asked someone to look at it. A pot of 50 silver coins is still the same price!"

Todd nodded, indicating that he had no further objections.

At this time, Queen Mary, who was sitting in the front seat, opened her mouth to say something, but after seeing the priest's expression for a while, she finally gave up speaking.

The game under the new rules restarted, and Todd was dual-purpose. While playing cards, he used his abilities to check everything around him.

Soon, he found two nobles on the card table, looking up from time to time behind him.

Todd turned the back of the card to his shoulder, and used the ability of "Eagle Eye" to carefully distinguish the glowing mirror image. A footman not far behind who frequently touched his head attracted his attention.

This person sometimes touched his ears with his hands, and sometimes touched the bridge of his nose with his hands. His fingers sometimes stood up and sometimes lowered.

"Peeper"?

Peeking at the opponent's cards, and then using gestures to signal, the old-fashioned cheating method is simple and effective.

Then using the "see through" ability to look at the table in front of him, Todd found another mystery in the stack of cards on the opposite side.

The two nobles on the opposite side stacked the cards together and placed them on the table, face down, with the thumbs of both hands facing inwards, blocking the view of others. There is a dark groove under the table, which can appear when the palm is pressed hard, slide the smooth metal card along the groove in the table, to the end of the groove at the other end, and the other person only needs to press the palm again, and the playing cards in the groove can be bounced into the hand.

Todd shook his head. It seems that this group of people really tried their best for this gamble.

The game was over, Todd lost 4 cards as a pirate, and had to pay 150 silver moons (10+20+40+80) to the viscount as a knight. In the amazement of the onlookers, the betting chips were converted into three pots of roses.

"Are you sure you want to continue?"

Unexpectedly, the voice actually came from Queen Mary. The latter stood up from his seat and looked at the priest, with something in his eyes that he couldn't understand.

Todd and she looked at each other for a moment, then nodded emphatically.

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 amused eyes, as if he was looking at an idiot who had lost to the extreme and started messing around, and he agreed to the request quite generously.

The way Todd shuffled the cards was quite strange. He laid all the cards face down and face up on the table, while chanting prayers, he took out the cross on his chest and tapped the back of each card three times. After doing all this, he packed up one by one.

The Viscount laughed loudly. He looked at the priest and said, "Don't you still expect miracles from the Heavenly Father?"

Todd glanced at him, pointed to the rose flower pot in front of him, and said devoutly: "Isn't everything in front of you enough to prove the supreme power?

Kennard put away his smile, glanced at the cross in his father's hand, swallowed, and said nothing more.

The servants began to deal the cards, first Todd, then the two nobles, and the cards were distributed round by round. Everyone found that the priest let the playing cards scattered on the table, instead of picking them up and sorting them out, they prayed silently there.

The Viscount first glanced at the cards in his hand with joy, then glared at Todd who was motionless, tapped the table with his knuckles, and reminded him: "Father, you should play the cards first."

"Heavenly Father sent down the Holy Judgment, and the outcome of this round has been decided."

Hearing what the other party said, Kennard became angry: "Heavenly Father can't control 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.

"A pair of 3, a pair of 4, a pair of 5, a pair of 6, a pair of 7, a pair of 8, a pair of 9, a pair of 10, a pair of J... nine consecutive pairs! 』

Seeing that the two people on the opposite side were stunned, and the cards in their hands fell to the ground, Todd slowed down his speech and began to count the chips little by little.

"The first card is 10 silver-moons, the second card is 20 silver-moons, the third is 40 silver-moons, the fourth is 80 silver-moons, the fifth is 160 silver-moons, the sixth is 320 silver-moons... the seventeenth card is 1310720 silver-moons, and the eighteenth card is 2621440 silver-moons. Together, one person is 5,242,870 silver-moons. Oh, I almost forgot, if a card is not played, it should be tripled, which is 15,728,610 Silver moon. If the two of you are together, it will be 31,457,220 silver moons."

The priest pushed back the chair, stood up and straightened his clothes, glanced at the dead hall, and said with a smile: "It may take some time to prepare more than 30 million silver moons. But I don't think such things as reneging on debts will happen. Both of you are dignified people, not to mention that there are so many people present today, and Her Majesty even witnessed this gambling game in person."

Viscount Kennard collapsed on the chair, his face was ashen, his body trembled, and the dark mark on his crotch was getting bigger and bigger.

"Oh, that's right!" Todd snatched the chain of the alien girl from the sluggish servant, and said loudly to the people: "Dealing with the alien is naturally the church's business, and I ask all the nobles to raise your hands and cooperate with the work."

Todd took the girl to the door of the hall, turned around and said to the silent hall: "Please be devout at all times, please remember that Heavenly Father is always watching us."