Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 318

2021-09-08

Chapter 317 Players who changed cards

"Are you sure this is not a pirated Rhodes card? What do you think? It's so new?"

At the wine table, Shade said, holding Mr. Darkness's special frowned card. The wine table on which the two sides played cards was specially custom-made for the Rhodes players in the tavern. Although the table was wiped clean, there were still wine stains that could not be removed all the year round.

"I just went to the Prophet's Association to get new cards, and the old ones are a little damaged."

Mr. Darkness shuffled Shade's deck skillfully, so Shade nods.

Since the release of Rhodes cards hundreds of years ago, special cards will inevitably be damaged after years of circulation. Therefore, the Prophet Association also provides a replacement service. According to the value of the card, a sum of money is spent, and the Prophet Association recycles the cards that are more than 80% complete and replaces them with brand new ones.

In this way, it is also avoided that special cards and decks have different degrees of newness and oldness, resulting in cards that can be recognized by card back.

After mutual shuffling, the game officially begins. The young bartender dealt the cards for the two, while the burly bartender scored them.

The first card is a hidden card, and in the next two up cards, Shade is a flower 3, a sun 7, and Mr. Darkness is a sun 9 and a moon 4.

"There is no reason to fold in the first game."

Mr. Darkness said with a smile, he is probably really boring, and he is very interested in playing cards. The thick fingers directly opened the fold, the sun was 3, 16 o'clock, he raised his eyebrows and signaled Shade to open the card.

Shade wasn't nervous at all, and flipped the fold. The sun is 11, exactly 21 o'clock.

"Good luck."

Shade said with a smile, then motioned for the bartender to score.

In the second round, Mr. Darkness played Moon 9, Moon 7, Shade's Star 3, and Star 13.

They all have 16 up, and in Rhodes rules, the risk of a third bust is about the same.

"Want to fold?"

Shade made a gesture of invitation.

"Of course not, how about you?"

Mr. Darkness asked, both of them seemed to be laughing under the light of the tavern's gas lamps.

Shade certainly wouldn't fold, so he turned the fold with his hands. Sun 1, a total of seventeen o'clock.

Mr. Darkness picked up his moon 9 and flipped open the card with a single pick. Xingchen 13, you don't need to count to know how to bust.

"At least I'm missing a 13."

He said slightly relaxed, folded the three cards and threw them to the side of the table, then motioned for the young bartender to continue serving. Card.

In the third game, Mr. Darkness had 9 flowers and 1 Moon, and he directly opened the fold, Stars 9, and a total of 19 points.

He gave Shade a smug smile, and Shade squinted at him and looked at his own cards, Sun 1 and Star 11.

After hesitating for a moment with his fingers on the fold:
“Fold.”

Shade flipped the fold, Sun 13.

He frowned slightly. He folded not because Shade guessed that he would definitely bust in this round, or was not confident in his luck, but when he was about to open the card just now, the voice in his heart reminded him. He, the opposite is actually using Mystic Art.

The traces of Mystic Art are very slight, and there is no sound and light effect. If it weren't for Shade's unusually sensitive perception, he wouldn't even be able to find a trace. The hesitation just now was actually giving the voice in her heart some time to determine what effect Mystic Art had played.

After Shade's hand touched the target of Mystic Art, which is Shade's hole card, she really gave the answer:
[Your hole card was changed by him. ]

"Change cards? Space Type replacement ability?"

[It's not a space, so I can't tell you what it is. ]

After coming to this world to play cards for so long, Shade finally met a guy who would cheat while playing. After losing twice in a row, Mr. Darkness had a crooked mind.

"It's despicable!"

Actually, Shade used [Blood Echoes] when playing cards, or the act of preparing to draw the Moon Dance Festival last time is considered cheating, but he didn't expect , there is someone who is even more extreme than him, and actually steals someone else's hole card.

The rules of the game in the tavern are the same as the regular ordinary person Rhodes card game. Shade knows that his opponent is cheating, but without evidence, he can't report the other party, because he can't prove his own. statement.

Under normal circumstances, there is no cheating in a two-ring warlock game. The effects of Mystic Art or spells are either immediately discovered by the crowd of onlookers, or can not be discovered by anyone other than the sorcerer itself.

But that doesn't mean Shade can't do anything about it.

"After the cards are dealt for a while, I will turn my hole card into [Founding·Balance]. If the opponent dares to change his cards, I will let him try Mystic Art backlash."

He must Different from [Kasenrik Southern Folklore Moon Dance Festival], which is only useful in the deck, [Founding and Balance] No matter whether it is in the deck or not, as long as Shade wants it, it can appear anywhere and anytime Shade wants it to appear. Location.

And, although the founding series of cards do not have any extraordinary properties, they are normally the same as ordinary cards and receive the effects of Mystic Art and spells, but [Founding Balance] is different.

This Rhodes card seems to have been used by Shade just as Luvia said after experiencing the night when Evil God came. Although Shade does not have the power of the chosen like Iluna, the power displayed has nothing to do with the Ancient God. But as a card, this magical card does not accept any spells and Mystic Art effects other than Shade.

Darkness will be backlashed by Mystic Art after conjuring this card. At this time, Shade used the other hand that was hanging down to change the card again, changing the [Founding Balance] to the palm of his hand, so that the original hole card returned to normal, so that there was no need to worry about being discovered.

With things in mind, the fourth round has begun. Shade's exposed cards are Moon 6 and Star 10. He put his finger on the folded card, and then looked towards Mr. Darkness, who was checking his two cards and did not use Mystic Art for the time being.

【Should you replace your trump card with Genesis·Balance? ]

She seemed very interested in the matter.

"Wait a minute, I'm going to surprise the other party when he's unsuspecting."

To a certain extent, Shade is also a stingy person. .

But this time, Mr. Darkness didn't change cards. The third round was changed because Shade won the first two rounds, but his Mystic Art probably couldn't be used at will, and there were so many ring warlocks. In the case of onlookers, the exposure risk of using Mystic Art multiple times is high.

Thus came the 8th round. At this time, the decks of both sides were close to more than half, and Shade led by luck by 8 points in the score. Mr. Darkness hadn't changed his cards since the third game, but when he saw the eighth game with 17 points on both sides, Shade knew that the opponent was going to cheat again.

"It's time to start! It's time to start!"

He fixed his eyes on his opponent, amused by his emotions at this moment. But at this time, a hand suddenly fell on Shade's shoulder from behind.

Turning her head and looking back, it was Miss Prince who had placed her left hand on Shade's shoulder. Shade couldn't see her expression because of the mask, but he could see the other side shaking his head slightly:

"Mr Watson, you've been lucky."

Having said that, he touched the ruby earring on his right ear again.

【The ruby relic works. ]

She whispered in the heart.

Shade sat up and looked towards the card under the light in front of him. He always liked the back of the Rhodes card:

“What is the effect of the relic?”

[Don't change your cards, you open your fold to see. ]

Shade opens the fold, the sun is 3, and the total is 20 points. The middle age person with severe ectropion on the other side looked at the opened card in surprise, obviously didn't expect this result.

"You"

Of course he couldn't say "Why hasn't your hole card been changed".

"You're really lucky."

He closed his mouth and snorted out of his nose, then opened his fold and busted a total of 23 points.

Mr. Darkness pinched his lips with the fingernails of the index and middle fingers of his right hand, and he began to get nervous.

[As for the effect of the relic held by Miss Prince, I can only guess, probably the effect of prohibiting Mystic Art from taking effect. ]

"Prohibit Mystic Art effect? Miss Prince's earrings, such a strong relic?"

Shade slightly frowned, watching the dealer continue to deal cards.

[This is just a guess, and of course it is impossible to ban all Mystic Art. But according to my feelings, the level of the relic is probably above the sage level. ]

"What? That ruby earring is Miss. Prince, what is it? But since she's still helping me, I don't think there's any need to be too suspicious."

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He thought to himself, folded the three cards that had already been played and threw them to the side, turned his head again and looked towards the blonde girl standing behind him:
"After leaving here in a while, the next stop Where is it?"

"Are you going to see the sea?"

Her voice came from behind the mask, looking a little dull.

After Mr. Darkness's cheating method was ineffective, the outcome of this game was doomed. Even though the draw of an entire deck was more technical than normal, Shade managed to win by a stroke of luck with a 23-point lead.

The middle age person who cheated in the poker game did not cheat. After the poker game, after taking the £9 paid in advance by Shade from the bartender, he sat back at the small round table against the wall and continued to watch. Newspapers, didn't say a word to Shade during that time.

The onlookers gradually dispersed, and this incident will probably become a topic of conversation in the tavern in the next week or two.

And after paying the broker's fee, Shade naturally got the poet-level relic [Universal Currency].

A careful observation under the gas lamp shows that the coin is engraved with a circle of very fine text. After translation, the meaning is [equivalent substitute, equivalent luck].

"If I choose to use this coin, the twenty-sided dice of fate, will it be able to reflect the bad luck it brings?"

[Of course. ]

"Then who is the object of the bounce? The bounce to the coin? The bounce to me who uses the coin? Or the bounce to the existence that made the coin?"

【Do you want to try it? ? ]

She asked with a chuckle in her ear.

"I was joking."

Shade shoved the coin into his pocket quickly.

Of course, to prevent confusion with other coins, this coin is stored separately.

"I have nothing else to do here. Before I leave, do you want me to buy you a drink?"

After the game, Shade, who was in a good mood, asked his partner. . After this poker game, his favorability towards Miss Princes has now increased greatly.

"Would you like a drink too?"

Miss Prince asked, and Shade thought about it:

"I think I'd like an iced one. Fruit juice is fine."

"Then I'll have a glass of fruit juice, too."

She said, then motioned for Shade to choose a seat. Both of them are wearing masks, but they will have to open their drinks for a while, so it's better to choose a remote location:
"Mr Watson, you seem to be very good at playing Rhodes, why don't you take this opportunity and talk to me about it? How about your Rhodes experience?"

She carefully chose the topic of the chat in the tavern, and asked Shade in a relaxed tone.

The gas lamp shade on the wall is a little dirty, giving the yellowish rays of light a vague halo. For Shade, the feeling of getting acquainted with strangers in just a few hours is amazing.

PS1: At the beginning of this chapter, it is a small patch for Rhodes.

PS2: When I write about cheating, I immediately think of various scenes in Hong Kong movies. Shade did not point out that the other party cheated on the spot, not only because he had no evidence, but also because he was able to fight back, not so stupid that the other party cheated and continued to play.

PS3: This chapter is 3K. In the future story chapters involving playing cards, the number of words in the chapters will be increased a little to prevent some readers from thinking that gambling cards are boring (covering their faces).