Chapter 29

Chapter 29

Sweet Farming

The Event Draw proceeded while hiding more than ninety percent of the item’s appearance.

Only about five minutes had passed since the first draw began.

Even so, the shop owner Noh Cheon-jang’s forehead was drenched with sweat.

That was only natural, because this was already the third draw.

Slide.

He stared at the customer, Ryu Jin, who stood calmly beyond his glasses.

What sort of trick had he pulled?

What did one have to do to pick out only the most expensive items among those displayed?

Twice in a row, at that, and in less than a minute after the items were displayed.

‘It is a coincidence.’

There were five candidates that could be selected per draw.

With the exception of one, they were all equipment close to Duds.

In other words, the customer’s chance of victory was only twenty percent.

‘There is no way I will keep losing.’

Even casinos, whose win rate was only three percent higher than that of the customers, made massive profits for decades.

But he, Noh Cheon-jang, had a win rate of a full eighty percent.

If the game continued, he had no choice but to win in the end.

“Huuuuu.”

Noh Cheon-jang let out a long sigh and checked the displayed equipment once more.

This time, it was certain.

No matter how familiar one was with Labyrinth Equipment, there were no visible factors that could identify them.

“Now, draw.”

At the hand slowly moving, Noh Cheon-jang clenched his fist.

Ryu Jin’s hand was gradually approaching the Dud.

He bit his lip to maintain his poker face.

Of course. Did he think an eighty-percent win rate was the neighbor’s dog’s name—

?

“Yes!?”

Noh Cheon-jang’s mouth fell open.

Just when it seemed Ryu Jin was about to pick a Dud, his hand sharply drifted and pointed to the most expensive equipment.

He lost again?!

Cold sweat poured down his back.

However, he did not notice it.

Because after losing two games in a row earlier, he was already drenched.

“I was lucky again this time. Oh My Goddess, huh? Maybe it’s because the shop’s name is good.”

Ryu Jin, who picked up the equipment, smiled with a good-natured face.

If he followed his heart, he wanted to grin until the corners of his mouth tore apart.

But he restrained himself.

In a gambling den like this, acting like a naive fool who knew nothing of the world was best.

‘At this point, isn’t the Luck Stat applying in reality too?’

Even when I arrived at Racecourse Park, I had no intention of playing a Draw Game.

After all, the reason I had come here was to find Labyrinth Equipment suitable for using Reset.

But I ended up encountering it by chance.

Not an ordinary jar or box draw, but a banner for an Event Draw Game where part of the equipment was hidden.

Evil Eye could not see through what was hidden.

But if even a small part of the main body was revealed, it could read it.

In other words, unless they placed completely unrelated equipment up there, it was a draw with a one-hundred-percent win rate.

How could I endure that?

I looked at the shop owner, Noh Cheon-jang, who was saying nothing.

“Should we stop?”

“What nonsense!!”

Noh Cheon-jang shouted and breathed roughly.

He had clearly been a gentle old man who seemed to have attained worldly wisdom only ten minutes ago.

But now, not only was his face flushed, his entire body was covered in cold sweat.

“Once we begin, we must see it through to the end! I, Noh Cheon-jang, started from a tiny roadside stall and came all the way here! I cannot end it like this!”

After putting on pressure, Noh Cheon-jang prepared the Draw Game again.

He had already lost more than 100 million won.

He had to recover it somehow.

‘Make it harder. Without a single gap!’

He selected the equipment with great care.

The probability of winning three times in a row with a twenty-percent win rate was 0.8 percent.

It had now fallen to the decimal point.

The next one was guaranteed.

“I would like to make one proposal.”

“What is it?”

“Why not raise the stakes? With Labyrinth Equipment that has a higher level restriction. Instead, the cost is 100 million per round. If you win, like in the three games just now, you take equipment worth approximately 300 to 400 million.”

“Sounds good. But I don’t have 100 million won in cash. Can I use the equipment I just won instead?”

“Of course.”

The corner of Noh Cheon-jang’s mouth rose.

The delusion that because he had won so far, he would win from now on as well.

A common beginner’s mistake.

So he would show him.

The end of one who became arrogant without using distributed betting.

“Now, draw!!”

He shouted confidently and laid out the items.

And.

“Aaaagh!!!”

In less than ten seconds, his shout turned into a scream.

‘That startled me.’

Ryu Jin, who picked up the equipment first, frowned.

He had been startled because a sound like someone dying had suddenly burst out.

Noh Cheon-jang, who was trembling, grabbed his head.

Ryu Jin watched him and carefully opened his mouth.

“Let’s really stop now, sir.”

“......!”

-Why not stop?

The words he had said to the female customer as if he were someone important, as if he had seen through life itself, came back to his mind.

How ironic.

He had never dreamed he would receive them back like this before even a day had passed.

Normally, Noh Cheon-jang had defined his own disposition as positive, benevolent, composed, relaxed, and so on.

But now that he looked at it, that had not been true.

That was only possible when the storehouse was full.

What filled Noh Cheon-jang’s head right now was not composure or relaxation, but the more than 400 million won he had lost in less than thirty minutes.

“What do you mean, stop! We go to the end! To the end!!”

Noh Cheon-jang exhaled long and forced the corners of his mouth upward.

For the first time since starting the draw business, he had met a proper opponent.

‘Very well, come at me.’

To think he was trying to stop after ignoring the vigor of old age.

He could not tolerate this.

This game would go to the end.

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“Cheon-jang old man. Close up and let’s have some gukbap with soju... Oh, damn.”

The man who entered the shop frowned.

The shop owner, Noh Cheon-jang, was slumped loosely in a chair.

He had burned white and turned into ash.

“O-Old man? Are you dead?”

“Dead, my ass, you rotten bastard.”

“You scared me. I thought I came here for gukbap for no reason and would have to clean up a corpse. Huh? You used to drink only with meals, saying drinking alone ruined your stomach, but you opened straight soju?”

“Because I realized again at this age that life is bitter.”

Only then did the man notice it.

The shop display shelves were far emptier than usual.

“D-Don’t tell me the Noh Cheon-jang of Hell got cleaned out?”

Noh Cheon-jang, who drank the soju, shifted his gaze toward the shop sign.

“I have been punished for using the word goddess carelessly.”

“Who on earth came by?”

“He seemed to be roughly the goddess’s son or something.”

Otherwise, it made no sense.

How could one win ten straight games with a twenty-percent win rate?

“Could you go outside and take down the Event Draw banner? No, tear it to pieces and burn it. I’ll pay for today’s gukbap and soju.”

He leaned back in the chair and tilted his head back.

Let us quit. This damned thing.

Noh Cheon-jang closed his heavy eyes.

From now on, he would live honestly.

And at this same time.

A public restroom a little distance away from Racecourse Park.

After confirming that it was a gate-openable space, Ryu Jin quickly entered the Labyrinth.

[Entering the Labyrinth Personal Lobby!]

Only after the bleak yet familiar space unfolded.

“Huuuuuuu!”

I let out a sigh of relief and swept a hand over my chest.

Generally, gate-opening was prohibited in places where commercial districts existed.

It was because of crimes where people stole goods, entered the Labyrinth, placed them there, and then came back out. In such areas, special equipment made with Magic Stones prevented gates themselves from occurring in the first place, so opening one secretly was impossible.

In any case, because of that, I had nearly died from anxiety the entire time I was leaving Racecourse Park.

That was because my backpack, both shoulders, and both hand-carried bags contained equipment worth more than 2 billion won altogether.

“What? Why did we suddenly come into the Labyrinth... Huh? Boss!?”

“My lord, du! What happened, du!”

Aris and Poporu, who had been playing at the Sillim villa and were suddenly dragged in.

The two demons who ran over nearby examined their master’s appearance.

When he left the house, he had clearly only one bag, but now, somehow, there was a lot more.

Ryu Jin lined up the luggage he had brought in the corner of the Labyrinth.

He had obtained not only swords, but also various Labyrinth-exclusive equipment such as functional shoes and armor.

‘He was an old man with professional spirit.’

The shop owner, Noh Cheon-jang, had scraped together everything he had down to his soul and continued the Draw Game.

Even so, Noh Cheon-jang had not cheated even once.

He had simply been stubborn and kept going until he burned away into pure white ash.

“B-Boss...!?”

Aris looked at Ryu Jin, her eyes trembling.

“Did you steal these!?”

“Duuuuu...!”

Kung-du Poporu frowned with a serious expression.

“This humble Kung-du was once a chivalrous hero, du. However, after swearing loyalty, silently following is the duty of a loyal retainer! Even if my lord walks through a filthy, foul-smelling, rotten sewer that only rats would use, I shall follow, du!!”

“It’s not like that.”

I briefly told them what had happened at Racecourse Park.

“That’s completely easy money, isn’t it?”

“It is sweet, du. Is it honey, du?”

“It was very sweet. I thought my teeth were going to rot.”

I looked around at the items I had laid out.

Even 100 million was a huge amount of money, but 2 billion.

It was an insane sum of money I had touched for the first time in my life, so my heart was still pounding.

“Hmmm. Evil Eye really is amazing, isn’t it? All of this was possible because of Evil Eye.”

“That’s true.”

“Evil Eye really is...! How can it be so incredible?”

“I admit it.”

“And it can still become even better, you know.”

I met Aris’s eyes.

Aris was drooling heavily while rubbing her thumb and index finger together.

Where on earth did she learn that kind of thing?

“Just ask me for Magic Stones.”

“Could you please give me some Magic Stones!?”

It seemed the Megalok meat she had eaten had already emptied out.

It was good that I had left some.

I went to the corner and took out the 100 Low-Grade Magic Stones I had left, then split them in half.

“Waaaah! Low-Grade!”

“Dduaaaaaagh!!”

Aris and Poporu began their Magic Stone mukbang with the happiest faces in the world.

Just how delicious were they for them to react like that?

I picked one up and carefully tried biting it.

‘Shiiit.’

I put it back down.

It was so hard that my teeth could not even sink in.

It seemed only demons could eat them.

[Poporu, the Demon of Kung Fu, has consumed Low-Grade Magic Stones!]

[Poporu leveled up!]

[Poporu leveled up!]

[Poporu leveled up!]

[Level 19 achieved!]

[New Unique Trait ‘Understanding of the Body LV1’ acquired!]

Your understanding of your own body and movements using your body increases!

You instinctively recognize the best action according to your current physical condition!

[Aris, the Demon of the Evil Eye, has consumed Magic Stones!]

[Aris leveled up!]

[Aris leveled up!]

[Level 20 achieved!]

[The level of the Unique Trait Evil Eye has increased! Current Level: LV5]

The additional Evil Eye ability ‘Sky View’ has been unlocked!

Observation from the sky centered around the Evil Eye holder becomes possible!

Mana is required for use!

BEEP.

[The Mana Stat does not exist! Use of Sky View is restricted!]

“Mm?”

I narrowed my eyes at the message that appeared.

Mana? What was that now?