episode_0209

LLI.

Our stay in the Brook area lasted three days.

May was completely rejuvenated after the first night of sex, which was all about instinct. The fact that she and Catherine were out and about every day since then was proof of that.

On the second day, at the strong insistence of Uncle Joseph and Aunt Papi, we took a cruise to see the archipelago.

Yeah, that’s it.

A cruise ship that only runs twice a day.

If you make a mistake and miss the deadline, you will have no choice but to stay on the island.

Due to the two of you’re zealous sabotage efforts, we ended up missing the second ship.

but,

“Don’t worry, son.”

Because of the Dean’s tactless show-off, we were prevented from spending that evening on the largest island in the archipelago.

First of all, there are three magicians here, and a sorcerer of an absurd level, so how could it make sense for them to be isolated on an island?

Instead, Dean Hu had to endure the glares of Uncle Joseph and Auntie Papi until he left the Brooke region.

What kind of diet is it?

“Ugh. I’m sorry. Honey. Because he’s my father.”

“No. I should have served you better. Even though I am a father-in-law who is lacking.”

“No. I’m sorry for being a clueless father.”

“It’s okay. But you’re not a bad person.”

“It might have been better to have a bad personality… … .”

“Honey! That’s not it!”

Well, it’s like this.

People around him were snickering as they tried to hold back their laughter, and Dean Hu was angry but couldn’t express it, so he held it in and his face was red all day.

So what is Catherine, who almost became a party to the incident, doing?

“Huh? Ow?”

I’m eating a ‘roll’ that is popular with young girls in the Brooke region. It’s very delicious. I especially liked the roll topped with flying fish roe and covered in a sweet sauce.

“No. Enjoy your meal.”

“Yeah!”

May once asked Catherine, “How do you feel about your mom and dad coming out and trying to hook you up like that?”

Catherine’s answer was,

“Huh? Those who are meant to be together will be together anyway. And my brother and I are the ones who will be together.”

As he said.

As a result, the scenario where the couple’s ambitiously prepared ship was cut short and they were left with Catherine was a complete failure.

A day later, on the third day after arriving in the Brook region.

We left the Brook region.

Using the magic car, which is Evergreen’s specialty and the masterpiece of Dean Hoo.

This magical vehicle, which moves on Mana Stone, is reminiscent of the self-driving cars of the era in which Goh Gwan-seong lived.

It is equipped with functions ranging from destination search based on navigation magic to automatic driving based on path magic.

To achieve this with science, we need to calculate an enormous number of variables, but if we replace it with magic that is close to a ‘miracle’, wouldn’t it be an easier and more feasible task?

Moreover, the magic car we are riding now is the latest product and the best work that Dean Hoo has put all his efforts into.

Rather than approaching shock absorption or vibration with mechanical engineering, it simply solves the problem with magic, so it maintains a comfortable state with no shaking at all even while moving.

Such a special chariot was speeding towards its next destination.

Whether it was a characteristic of the Sumerian kingdom or the influence of the World Tree, the one-sided driving of the magical chariot without even a single goblin in sight.

It was a trip that could have easily been boring, but the scenery inside the carriage was far from the word boring.

The interior of the magic car that Dean Hoo specially modified is quite spacious, and it is even more spacious than it looks from the outside thanks to the space expansion magic.

But that doesn’t mean that this simple journey can’t be boring. The reason why these people, including the superhumans, don’t get bored is because there’s something to enjoy in it.

Let me emphasize again that it’s not that there’s nothing to play with, it’s that it happened.

The incident began on the first day of departure from the Brook area. Two hours after leaving Brook, the superhumans were writhing in boredom. No wonder,

“Gray. Do you want to come down and spar?”

It was to the extent that Canviel asked him.

No matter how spacious the inside of a horse-drawn carriage is, sitting still and watching the scenery move away repeatedly is bound to be a pain.

Of course, I was lying down comfortably thanks to having worked hard the night before.

While listening to the whining with one ear and letting it go out the other, I stopped the car and had lunch.

“Oppa, I’m bored.”

It was only after hearing Catherine’s whining that I began to think of a solution.

In fact, there was no need to think about it. It was something I could do by recalling my memories of living in a world where ‘play = game’ had developed.

Of course, I could recall something appropriate from those memories.

He called the witch and May and explained, and made a plaything using the wyvern leather and magic samples the witch had.

This precious leather, called wyvern leather, is strong enough to be used as armor, and is made by folding the middle so that it can be folded twice.

On a wide, square leather board, the famous territories of the continent, the capitals of kingdoms and empires are arranged in squares on the surface, and in the middle, there is a space with a golden key drawn on it and a space called ‘Warp Gate Carriage’.

At the corners of each square were written [Departure], [Warp Gate], [Rift in Space], and [Welfare Fund].

Thirty cards with keys written on the back were made, and two special dice were also made.

“What is this?”

“Evergreen Marble. It can be shortened to Green Marble.”

Yes, that’s right.

A devilish board game.

It is a board game called ‘Blue Marble’ in terms of confessional nature.

“Green Marble?”

“Yes. It’s a game, a play. Once you get into it, you can’t get out.”

Originally a board game in the memory of the confessional, it was a basic classic game made of dice and basic plastic decorations.

But the witch’s magic and May’s sorcery were combined to create an absurdly high-quality, over-technology game.

Originally, when you rolled the dice, the plastic piece moved the number that came up.

But in our ‘Green Marble’, when you roll two dice, a mini-me made of light, a miniature version of the gamer, runs around according to the number that comes up. Like a hologram.

Also, if ‘May’ arrives in the ‘Evergreen’ area and buys the Evergreen land, a small hologram resembling May will appear running around setting up barricades and toll booths in Evergreen. Even if May moves to another place.

And when other gamers arrive at Evergreen, they will show a motion of reaching out and asking for money.

Is that the end?

no way.

When the landowner returns to his land and pays the amount corresponding to the building he can build, a hologram of the real building rising up appears.

If you build an inn, the inn,

If you build a villa, you get a villa,

If you build a hotel, the hotel,

Built in an instant from particles of light.

When we first met, May created artifact-level bracelets and rings in an instant.

The Walpurgis Witches are the ones who originally created all kinds of objects using catalysts and magic samples.

With the support of Toorpuri, the two of them were so excited to create this board game that was so high-quality and over-technologically unnecessary.

“Listen carefully, I’ll explain the rules.”

“Here, roll the dice and move the number that comes up. If you want to buy the territory you moved to, you have to pay the amount of the territory to the bank. Then, the territory becomes the gamer’s, and so on.”

A child who resembles me appears in a territory marked Evergreen and is seen setting up a toll booth.

“And if I buy this territory and another gamer arrives at this territory, they have to pay a certain toll fee. Usually, it’s around 15% of the territory purchase price.”

“Oh!!”

“And when you arrive back at your territory, you can pay a certain amount of money and build one of the three types of buildings. Of course, if another gamer arrives at the territory where the building was built, the toll you have to pay will also increase, right?”

“Yeah yeah!!”

“When you reach the space with the golden key, flip this card over. Then, like this.”

Let’s turn over the card while explaining,

『Go to the welfare fund reception office and pay 1 gold of welfare fund.』

A voice comes out.

“Ohhh!!”

“This golden card is a hit or miss. It can be bad like this, but it can also be good.”

As he explained, he pulled out the golden card again.

『Move to the place where the warp gate is installed. After 1 turn, you can activate the warp gate and move to the territory of your choice.』

“Like this.”

“Ohhh!! Amazing!!”

“The description of the warp gate is exactly as it was just mentioned. There are two ways to use the warp gate: arriving at a space with a warp gate on your horse, drawing a gold card like I just did, or arriving at a space that says ‘Warp Gate Carriage’ in the middle, paying 2 gold and moving to the warp gate to use it.”

“Ohhhh! Detail!”

“When the horse arrives at the welfare fund space that was mentioned briefly earlier, you can retrieve the welfare funds that other people have paid.”

“Hmm!!”

“Lastly, here is where it says “Space Gap”. If your horse lands here or you fall here by the command of the golden card, you must rest for 2 turns unconditionally.”

“Hoo. So it’s a gap in space.”

of course.

If you tell these superhumans that it’s an uninhabited island like the original setting, they’ll say something novel like, “I’ll teleport back!”

“How, do you understand?”

“Yeah, yeah. Let’s do it! Let’s do it!”

This group would have been engrossed even if they had brought the original board game, but why not play this uselessly high-quality game?

There’s no way these gamblers would stay still.

“Wait! Kanviel! Are you rolling the time difference?”

“What, what? Hey, you’re writing a scenario!!”

“Do I look like I’m wearing ice leg hot pants?!”

Well, as this happened, even dice were magically processed. When a gamer held the dice, if they applied divine power, the dice would emit a red light.

If you look at it this far, it seems like a happy ending for everyone, but

“Haa… … . This crazy. How long are you going to do this!!”

The problem is that these gambling addicts don’t seem to have any intention of quitting.

It was three days ago after lunch that the Green Marble was created, and since then, the superhumans have been engrossed in it, skipping not only sleep but also meals.

The game starts with the same stake per round, and if the stake is lost, the player is eliminated.

The ‘same stake’ I was talking about here was not game money, but real currency, gold, and the stakes gradually increased until Canviel, the winner just now, took 10,000 gold.

It’s not 1,000 gold, it’s 10,000 gold.

An amount equivalent to 1 billion in monetary value in the dimension of confession!

The same amount of candidate support money Lina received in a month before I took care of her!

Like these crazy gambling addicts!

Oh, the original game had a salary system, but it was removed here. In the first place, you play with real money, so who would pay you a salary?

anyway,

“May.”

“Huh? Oh. Are you still doing it?”

I had no choice but to take drastic measures.

“So. Take them all back.”

“Yeah!! Come back!”

At May’s cute command, the board game ‘Green Marble’ that the supermen were about to start again folded up and flew towards May.

“Ah! What the!”

“Gray!!”

“Hey!”

.

.

“Shut up! Before I rip you apart.”

As he held the green demon’s board and threatened to use his power with the other hand, the superhumans who had been resisting became quiet.

“You must eat at least three meals a day and sleep for at least five hours a day before I can return it.”

“Oh, oppa? Uh, us too?”

“Yeah. Catherine too. Look at that! Catherine learns bad things quickly too!”

This is the decisive reason why I stopped superhumans from gambling.

Superhumans, what’s the problem if they don’t eat or sleep for a few days? But their loud noises and excited shouts not only make it difficult for the group in the carriage to sleep,

“Hueeeung… … .”

Catherine also wasn’t sleeping and was doing block subtraction.

It was called ‘Jenga’.

“Anyway, go to sleep now. Before I force you to sleep.”

So no one was bored until they reached their next destination, the city of Jerez.

Supermen are addicted to the devilish game Green Marble,

The Catherine family has artifacts like the tumbling monkey and Jenga,

And I watch over them to make sure they follow the rules.