I must draw my sword immediately!

Chapter 109 The Direction of Destiny

The dealers, their faces filled with astonishment, followed Suya's instructions, their hands trembling, their eyes wide, and with an extremely unwilling yet self-comforting expression, they solemnly pushed 29 chips into the '3' square.

Everyone in the entire casino lobby was practically suffocating.
They looked at Suya with disbelief and exasperation, wishing they could slap their trouser legs and yell at him, "What are you thinking, kid? Fine, fine, don't waste your money, huh? Get off here! I could do that myself!"
Regardless of what they are really thinking—

Tap! Tap! Tap! Tap!
One by one, steel balls fell into the squares.

One hundred gambling tables, one hundred roulette wheels, one hundred steel balls—it all seemed to be following a path preordained by the hand of fate.
At last,
They all rolled into the square labeled '3'.

The results of all one hundred gambling tables were—

3!

In a game of luck where even Einstein had to be scrambled to get a piece of the action,
Suya won this round with an invincible attitude!

The moment the results were announced, the noisy casino hall instantly became so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Then,

"F**K!"

"WHAT, F**K!?"

A string of vulgar words burst from the mouths of the gentlemen and ladies, and then everyone looked at the head of the hall in shock, as if they were looking at God, at the newly minted millionaire!

however,
To their surprise, they found that they could not see even a trace of the joy of victory on the handsome, blond-haired young knight's face.

He clearly won a whopping 120 million gold pounds, making him a super-rich man who could now walk sideways like a crab in the capital.

But he was like a dolphin drowning in a sea of ​​people, his pair of clear, emerald-green eyes trembling slightly, and a look of incomprehensible fear appearing on his face.

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"Suya, we won!"

"Unbelievable!"

"This this."

The clear, joyful laughter of Merry, who seemed to want to pick herself up in a princess carry and spin her around forty-nine times, followed by a loud kiss, rang in her ears. Gawain's stunned exclamation and the stuttering murmur of the girl in the red dress beside him also filled the air.

In a flash,

The distant and unfamiliar gray world seemed to regain its color.
The rest of the noise, including shouts, curses, table-pounding, and accusations of a cover-up, was automatically filtered out.
Suya gasped for breath, finally breaking free from the absurdity, loneliness, and inexplicable feeling of being manipulated.

And then,
The casino manager, or rather, the vice-commander of the Royal Guard Knights—Miles—suddenly became extremely serious, as if he had made some extremely important decision.

He bowed slightly, raised one hand, and pointed towards the tall archway at the far end of the hall.
"Sir Suya, please come with me."

Suya's expression froze, and she instinctively wanted to resist.
He clenched his fist and hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he chose to follow Miles without saying a word.

3,

In Celtic mythology, it is a sacred number, associated with everything from the three strongest swords in the lake to Gawain's saintly stance and countless other myths.

And on the hundred roulette wheels that were fired into the chaos and the unknown, this predetermined sacred number appeared.

Clearly, this was the result of manipulation, and a method that Suya could not possibly comprehend.

Combining this with everything she had experienced before, Suya keenly realized—

Things started to look a little off.

A colossal beast crisis erupted in the capital, and Gawain rescued him from the ruins. He then heard the news that the Golden Iron Curtain was about to fall.
His first choice wasn't to rush back to the tavern to discuss with Lukan and the others, suggesting they quickly divide their belongings and return to Gao Village—the capital was too dangerous, and they feared they couldn't withstand it—but instead, inexplicably, he chose to run to the casino for a high-stakes, high-stakes gamble.

This is strange in itself and completely inconsistent with Suya's behavioral logic.

What was he originally planning to do?

Alive.

Living is the first priority. Only by living, gradually understanding the world, and steadily becoming stronger can we truly control our own destiny.

If the king is gone, there's still London; if London is gone, there's still Canterbury; if Canterbury is gone, there's still Manchester; and then there's Glasgow. At worst, I'll just take a ship and run away to an island in the Arctic Ocean to live as a pirate, or I'll just surrender to other countries.

What's this about drawing your sword or not? The waters here are too deep. If we can't handle it, can't we at least run away?
but now,
Their actions and thoughts are completely contradictory.
Suya clearly wanted to find a place to hide and practice martial arts for a thousand or eight hundred years, but her body honestly and willingly participated in one seemingly complicated event after another.
He was caught in a vortex called fate.

At this moment, he discovered that this fate was actually just a little girl who could be dressed up by anyone, and that someone could control this mysterious thing from a higher level.

No, how do you fight this?
however,
After careful consideration, Suya had to admit that he had too few chips and too little strength. Even if he discovered the clues and sensed that something was wrong, choosing to leave the game at this point might lead to even greater danger.

Right now, the path to increasing strength and learning more secrets is right in front of us.

Even if you want to run away, want to escape this vortex,
He must also become stronger and know more!

"call!"

With this thought in mind, Sua made up her mind, but still retained a degree of caution in her heart, and chose to follow Miles to the tall archway at the end of the casino hall.

quickly,

Miles led the way.
Sua and her group, including Mary, Gawain, and Gerry Freyt, followed the directions, passing through the bustling casino hall, climbing the stairs behind the door, and ascending the tall, ornate staircase to the second floor with only six gambling tables, and then the third floor with only one gambling table.

At last,
Upon reaching the fourth spire of this Gothic building, we arrived before a door with intricate decorations and an immeasurably expensive appearance.

And then,
Meryl realized what was happening, looked curiously at Gerry Freyt, who had followed them all the way here, blinked, and asked:
"Um, I've been wanting to ask you something. Why did you come up here with us?"

"We don't seem to know each other very well?"

Upon hearing this, Miles and Gerry Freyt couldn't help but laugh at the same time.
Suya shook his head, turned around, looked at the girl who was the same age as him behind him, and said firmly:
"You are Gerry Freyt."

Gerry Freyt smiled slightly and snapped her folding fan shut.
then,

In the deserted corridor, she placed her hand on her chest, slightly lifted her skirt, and slowly knelt down before Suya.
"King of Knights, Sua Pendragon."

“Gerry Freyt, head of the Cador family, pays her respects.”

Suya looked at her without any surprise; he had already guessed this when she was gesturing and communicating with Sir Miles behind him.

But then, his expression turned serious, and he looked at Gerry Freyt, asking:

"Now, I've arrived at the fourth floor of this Winchester casino."

"So, may I ask, what would you like to wager with me?"

Gerry Freyt took a deep breath, and with a tone neither ladylike nor merchantly firm, like a true knight, she knelt on one knee and resolutely pleaded with Sua:

"What I want to bet with you is—"

"This capital city is the future of your three million citizens!"

(End of this chapter)