Chapter 55 – Day 55

Day 55

“It’s magnificent.”

The hotel prepared by the agent.
Cheon Seoa muttered as she looked out the window of the place that required hundreds of millions for just one night’s stay.

Indeed, looking at the splendid cityscape spread out under the night sky, it finally felt real that she had come to Las Vegas.

So.

“What are we going to do now?”
“When it comes to Las Vegas, it’s obviously the casino.”

The agent replied with a grin to Cheon Seoa’s question.

Casino.
The representative entertainment of Las Vegas, called Sin City.

It’s impossible not to visit a casino in this place where numerous casinos are gathered.

Therefore, Cheon Seoa also naturally thought about visiting a casino at least once if she came to Las Vegas, but.

“I don’t know anything about casinos.”

“That’s alright.”

What kind of games are played in the casino.
And, what are the rules of the game that’s being played.

Cheon Seoa doesn’t know any of it.

From the beginning, when Cheon Seoa was on Earth, and even when she was active in the Cultivation World, she was far from gambling.

Of course, the agent knew this fact all too well.

That’s why.

“Just trust me and follow along.”

The agent who said that showed a very confident smile.

* * *

The place they arrived at, guided by the agent, was a casino located in the basement of the hotel.

According to the explanation, it was said to be one of the most popular casinos even in Las Vegas.

Indeed, as if to confirm the agent’s words, the casino they arrived at was bustling with numerous people.

The interior of the casino, boasting a size larger than a dozen soccer fields combined, was packed with people.

It was impossible to even estimate how many people were there enjoying the games.

It was when Cheon Seoa was looking around with curious eyes at the people filling the casino interior.

“Shall we start lightly with the slot machines?”

The place where the agent arrived after saying those words and walking ahead had slot machines arranged in 10 rows, with 100 machines in each row.

The slot machine was quite simple.
You just insert a chip and pull the lever, that’s it.

When the lever is pulled, the symbols on the screen start spinning, and if the credit line and winning combination match, it’s a success. Otherwise, it’s all failure – it had such simple rules.

“You can use this chip.”

As soon as Cheon Seoa sat in front of the slot machine, the agent standing behind her handed over a small chip.

The chip’s color is black, with the number 100 written in the center.

What, a million dollars?!
Insane! Burning a million dollars on a single slot machine?
Is she some chaebol’s daughter?

The people around exclaimed in shock as soon as they saw the chip the agent pulled out.

The black color of the chip indicates that it’s worth $10,000.
In other words, the actual value of the chip with 100 written in the center, which the agent took out, is a million dollars, as people around are shouting.

It’s a huge sum of money, equivalent to 1.35 billion won in Korean currency.
Cheon Seoa inserted it into the slot machine as if it was nothing.

Click-.
Ding-ding-ding-.

She inserts the chip and pulls the lever.
With a somewhat childish sound effect, the symbols on the slot machine screen start spinning wildly.

“Now you just need to press the button five times in total.”

While Cheon Seoa was looking at the slot machine screen, wondering when it would end.
The agent said.

Following the agent’s instructions, Cheon Seoa pressed the particularly noticeable button on the slot machine once each, for a total of five times.

“Oh, it’s a failure.”

Not a single symbol matches.
All five symbols show different forms. This could be considered a failure in the slot machine game.

A million dollars.
More than 1.3 billion won in Korean currency evaporated with just a few clicks.

The people around who witnessed this couldn’t hide their disappointment, even though it wasn’t their own money.

“It’s not particularly fun.”

Surprisingly, the expression of Cheon Seoa, who had just lost a million dollars, was nothing but calm.
No, rather, the fact that her evaluation was simply ‘not fun’ despite losing a million dollars made the people around her even more surprised.

“Is that so? Then…”

“What’s that over there?”

Just as the agent was about to recommend another game, Cheon Seoa pointed in a direction and asked.
The agent glanced in the direction Cheon Seoa was pointing and said.

“That’s odd or even. It’s a game that’s not typically offered in most casinos.”

“Odd or even?”

“Yes. The rules are simple. The customer places chips on either odd or even, and the outcome is determined by whether the sum of the four dice in the dealer’s shaker is odd or even.”

“Sounds simple.”

“Indeed, odd or even is considered one of the simplest games along with slot machines.”

“I’d like to try that.”

“Understood.”

The agent bowed his head in response.
Soon, he took out another chip from his pocket and handed it over.

This time too, it was a black chip with the number 100 in the center.

People around were first surprised by the agent casually pulling out a million-dollar chip.
Furthermore, they were shocked a second time by Cheon Seoa accepting such a large sum of chips without batting an eye.

Even for a child of a chaebol family, using a million-dollar chip for a single game is quite a burden.

Meanwhile, Cheon Seoa, not caring about the gazes of those around her, sat down in an empty seat at the odd-even game table.

Soon after the previous game ended and the next one began, people around started placing their chips on either odd or even.

Cheon Seoa did as well.

“Somehow, I feel like odd is good.”

Cheon Seoa placed the million-dollar chip on odd without hesitation.
Particularly, the spot where Cheon Seoa placed her chip was where one could earn four times the bet if the sum of the numbers became 23.

It was the spot with the lowest winning probability in the odd-even game.

‘Is she crazy?’
‘Betting a million-dollar chip on such a spot?’
‘Must be nice to have money to burn.’

People around looked at Cheon Seoa as if she were insane.

However, Cheon Seoa remained unfazed by such gazes.

To begin with, the money she was using in this casino wasn’t her own.
Moreover, the agent’s net worth exceeded billions, reaching tens of trillions or more.

Frankly speaking, even if she used million-dollar chips all day in this casino, it wouldn’t be a problem.

“Then, let’s begin.”

After everyone placed their chips where they wanted, the dealer’s hand moved.

Rattle, rattle.
The moment the dice inside the container held by the dealer move frantically.

Thud-!

The dealer places the container upside down on the table.
Simultaneously, the eyes of countless people focus on the container the dealer has placed.

“23. It’s odd.”

Insane-!
This can’t be!
It’s a scam! This is a scam!

As the dealer retrieves the overturned container, the sum of the four revealed dice is 23.
A number that countless people thought would never win has appeared.

Among them, only Cheon Seoa had placed chips on 23 and odd.

“There was no need to go that far.”

“It’s fine. As long as we don’t get caught, it doesn’t matter.”

Cheon Seoa utters incomprehensible words, and the agent responds with equally incomprehensible words.

Cheon Seoa, smiling at the agent’s words, thought, ‘Well, it doesn’t matter.’

After all, this is a casino.
Elegantly speaking, it’s a casino, but in reality, it’s no different from a gambling den where the one who wins money is the law.

Of course, to prevent cheating through special abilities, the casino has installed CCTVs everywhere and deployed guards to watch with eagle eyes.

‘There’s no way they could detect the agent’s cheating.’

Let’s get up, let’s get down, the agent is a Transcendent who has reached the realm of Original Spirit.
No matter what abilities they possess, there’s no way that mere mortals could notice the actions of the Transcendent agent.

Meanwhile, Cheon Seoa, who had increased one chip to four through the odd-even game.

“Then shall we enjoy other games as well?”

Saying that, she moved to enjoy the numerous games scattered throughout the casino.

* * *

“What’s this…?”

In a room filled with hundreds of monitors showing the interior of the casino.
The brow of the man sitting there, watching the monitors, furrowed.

Something was off.
Something, an inexplicable and strange something, could be felt.

However.

“There’s nothing particularly strange though.”

The man muttered, looking at a couple displayed on the monitor.

A combination of a girl who looked like a young lady from some wealthy family, and a man who appeared to be her attendant.
From the first game, which was the slot machine, until now, they had played dozens of games using only million-dollar chips.

Sometimes they lost.
Sometimes they won, and if you calculate the ratio, it’s 4:6.

For every 4 losses, they win 6 times.

Up to this point, there was nothing particularly strange.
The only issue was that whenever they won a game, the payout was at least 4 times, and sometimes over 10 times their bet.

During this short period, the casino’s losses amounted to tens of millions of dollars.

That’s why they were closely monitoring those two.

“No apparent cheating can be seen.”

From simple sleight of hand to using supernatural abilities for cheating.
Despite considering all possibilities, the man couldn’t detect any form of cheating from those two.

That’s why it was even more incomprehensible.

While casino games might seem fair at first glance, looking deeper into the system, it was designed to ensure that customers always lose.

Yet, in such a casino, they were showing a 60% win rate, and each game they won had odds of at least 4 times, sometimes exceeding 10 times?

The man suspected that those two were employing some form of cheating that he couldn’t detect.

Of course, this was just a suspicion, not a certainty.

Certainty can be quite dangerous.
If a wrong certainty is held and it turns out to be incorrect, the casino could suffer irreparable damage.

That’s why the man said.

“Put those two on the red list.”

“Understood.”

Someone responded to the man’s words and disappeared.

Somewhere.

“Let’s find out what they’re up to.”

The man’s eyes never left Cheon Seoa and the Agent as he muttered those words.