Chapter 285: Fate Gambler
[Unrated]
Dusk was falling, and the ambiguous moonlight climbed to the edge of the imperial capital. The church city was shrouded in the moonlight. As the long night progressed, the moonlight became brighter and brighter, covering every glass prism of the dome of the Third Cathedral with white frost.
Tonight is destined to be an unforgettable night for the Holy See and even for the citizens of Farol.
Even many years later, when they and their descendants talk about this night, everything seems to be vivid in their minds.
They will remember the frosty moonlight, the light reflected from every pane of glass in the church, the sycamore leaves falling in the wind on the church square, and the four bright red characters in the center of the square:
[Unable to rate]
The Cursed Son Anzu defeated the Saint Cersei and took first place. This was already an unimaginable and unbelievable miracle, but it pales in comparison to [Unrated].
There is no rating, that is a rating in itself.
Be it the old men in the imperial capital who were over a hundred years old and had witnessed countless legendary events, or the knowledgeable local nobles, or even the priests within the seven major church, none of them had ever seen a celestial body give such an evaluation.
How come there is no way to rate it? The system created by the Church with taxpayers' money is used for rating; but when it comes to Anzu, there is no way to rate him. What did he do in the world of Naraku?
It can't be possible that this guy hacked the exam system?
The priests all had this absurd thought in their minds at the same time, but then they shook their heads, wondering how it was possible.
They continued to read down, and apart from the most eye-catching four words "unable to be rated", Anzu's other paper data were also very luxurious, so luxurious that it was outrageous.
First of all, the score was 65 points, only 5 points away from the full score, which was the highest score of all the saints, surpassing Her Majesty the Princess' 60 points.
If that were the case, it would be fine. The most important thing was that although Ansu had the highest total score, he had indeed cleared the fewest worlds, only three! Three worlds, 65 points, each world had an average score of nearly 22 points.
Ordinary people cannot fully understand the outrageousness of this result. Only the priests who serve as examiners know the value of it.
Because the full score of the three worlds is only 30 points at most. Ansu can get such a high score, which means that he has exceeded the additional score of 35 points, and there is only one possibility to get these points.
That was the out-of-control Blue Witch, the projection of the last saint of the Church of Life. This most evil witch in the world was defeated personally by Ansu, a teenager who was less than fifth level.
Thinking of this, many glorious priests had complicated expressions in their eyes. Even though their current positions and ranks were higher than Ansu's, they could never be the opponent of that witch. They were afraid that if they were just looked at by her 'blue devil eyes', they would be turned into sacrificial nutrients.
Defeating the most evil woman - even if it was just a projection that went out of control, it was a great achievement that was recorded in the book. Anzu had this resume at the age of sixteen, and his future career path would be extremely smooth.
While being astonished by Ansu's achievements, all the priests of the Glorious Church, both great and small, were filled with regret and annoyance, especially the saints of the Imperial Capital who were of the same generation as Ansu. They all felt remorseful and annoyed.
If they had known Ansu was like this, they should not have looked at him with prejudice. They should have faced Ansu squarely. They were all glorious and upright saints, and they should have helped each other. If they had known this—
They should have bet everything on Ansu to win! What are the odds between Ansu and the princess tonight? One to ten, one to twenty? All the upright Glorious Saints showed despair. They thought this was a guaranteed win. This was not a doctoral program, but financial management. They had put their salary and property for several years on the princess for financial investment, and now it was all gone.
Is this a fake match? They put aside their prejudices and looked at An Su from a positive perspective, and they felt that this kid was completely capable of doing such a thing.
Some saints even began to suspect that this kid from the border had colluded with Cersei to take the fake test to earn compensation, and they would split the money 70% after the game. If they were even more crazy, there would be seven worlds for the test, and Her Majesty the Princess would lose 0:7 at home in the Imperial City.
You tell me how to explain this.
If Her Majesty the Princess did not have a good reputation and something really big had happened in the Naraku world, the Holy See would not have taken such a risk. They would have really believed it.
They now deeply realize that losing everything is also a kind of dawn.
"Dawn! Can the deeds of the Glorious Saints be called losing everything?" The Dawn Saints were mumbling to themselves, followed by some half-understood words, such as 'losing everything is a special form of Dawn', 'the Dawn Saint also did it'
No matter what, tonight is destined to be a bloody night.
After the rankings are announced, an unprecedented and grand flying magic show will be lined up for performance; looking at the chaotic appearance of the surrounding citizens and even saints crying, feeling miserable, and banging their heads on the ground, the Chaos Witch undercovers lurking in the imperial capital all showed expressions of admiration.
Being able to witness such a good show with your own eyes is worth the price of the ticket.
"I see! This is Brother Chaos Stairs's chaos plan!"
"It's fun! It's fun!"
Chaos Elevator Brother - perhaps now she should be called Chaos Elevator Sister, has been completely convinced by the calculations of Stair Boss. The world does not know, but according to the information they have learned, Princess Cersei has actually been possessed by the Chaos Saint Elf a long time ago.
The Stair Boss and Her Majesty Elf teamed up to set up a plan.
His purpose is to fleece these stupid citizens of Farol, not only to damage their economy but also to take their lives, and at the same time he can watch an aerial show with hundreds of people. What an evil and chaotic boss.
After this battle, the idiot saints of the Glorious Church will suffer a severe blow and will never recover.
By then, the development of the esoteric undercover business will be just around the corner.
They who are loyal to Chaos will live up to the great mission assigned by the organization above.
Thinking of this, Chaos Elevator laughed heartily.
"The secret believers have also gambled all their belongings to the princess, including you." The chaotic escalator in the front row turned around and said expressionlessly, using magic to transmit the sound, "Have you forgotten?"
The smile in the chaotic elevator froze.
"I'm a doctoral student, a chaos scholar. Can it be called gambling?"
Chaos Elevator said this in a stiff voice, followed by a series of half-understood words, such as "major in chaos probability and dice chaos research".
"You paid off the loan for gambling." Chaos Escalator said expressionlessly.
"That's my student loan." Chaotic Elevator said calmly.
Chaos Escalator's expression was almost dead, "You embezzled all the three years of funds sent by the organization to pay for your doctoral studies!"
".Why don't we also perform trapeze magic?" Chaos Elevator thought about it, and finally smiled with relief, "Just treat it as the final exam."
"Wait until His Holiness the Bishop arrives, then you can fly."
Chaos Escalator Turning back, she looked towards the night of Farol. The frosty moonlight covered the glass dome of the church, illuminating everything. But this light was ultimately an illusion. In the long night that was about to come, all the glory was just a bubble, and only the chaotic darkness was eternal.
On the scale of the starry sky and even the universe, entropy increase is the ladder of all destinies, chaos is the final form of all things, and chaos is the ultimate stability.
Only by returning to eternal chaos and taking the final step of destiny can one escape the endless cycle of reincarnation.
They have been waiting for too long for the promised staircase.
"Then you're doomed anyway." Chaotic Elevator said with a smirk, "Give me your credit limit, and I'll go get a small student loan and make my money back in one go."
“.”
The chaotic escalator was silent for a while, she moved her cheek away,
"I'm also dawning."
All in all, Ansu struck equal blows against both the esoterics and the orthodox believers. Looking at the chaotic scene of devastation and wailing all around him, Ansu smiled an innocent smile like a child. Popularizing and spreading flying magic was his duty as a missionary.
When this exam started, no one was optimistic about Ansu, so his odds were staggeringly high.
No one believed Ansu could win.
After all, this is understandable. His rank is far inferior to that of the princess of the imperial capital, and he himself is just a cursed child hated by Guanghui. How can he possibly win? Even the saints who know Anzu well are unlikely to gamble their lives on him.
Even Merlin, the god of law, bet on the princess' victory.
Whether gambling is to study for a doctorate or losing everything is a ray of hope, no matter how the believers on both sides whitewash it, they have lost their pants. And Ansu is probably the only winner of this exam. He has bet on a gold mine of the Morning Star family. According to the current odds, he can take away all the student aid funds in the venue.
Only he can win.
But Ansu is not short of money, he just simply enjoys the pleasure of exploiting others.
An Su raised a happy smile, and at this moment, Luo Jia behind him gently pulled the corner of his clothes.
He turned his head back. The blush on the little saint's face had not completely faded. She bit her lip gently, and her golden eyes moved slightly. As if she had made up her mind, she raised her head and looked into An Su's eyes. "I won."
Luo Jia held his head high and said proudly.
"What did you win?" An Su was a little dazed.
Luo Jia paused, she took out a small notebook from her bag, hesitated for a while, and handed it to An Su, "I can pay you back."
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An Su took it and looked at it, and found that it was a pure white account book with a picture of a kitten on the cover. He opened it to check the contents. The book had many pages, but only two pages were written, and every page was related to An Su.
'January.'
'On January 21, I escaped from the monastery with Ansu. It was the first time I stayed out all night. I secretly went to the Naraku world. It was the first time I violated the commandments. The chaotic border was very chaotic. It was the first time I said bad swear words. After I came back, I owed him a fine of 200 gold.'
"On January 30, I spent 20 gold on the cake. Ansu brought me a few from the Magic Guild. I also need to record this amount."
An Su still vaguely remembered these things. He and Lister Arthur participated in the "Magic Three Going to the Countryside" activity. They ate cake like crazy in the living room, and he packed the remaining cake for the little saint to bring back.
Finally, 'On July 2, I met Ansu in the exam registration hall. The exam registration fee totaled 2,000 gold coins, and he paid it for me.'
July 2nd was just a few days ago.
'The total amount owed to Ansu Morningstar is 2200 gold and three blueberry cakes.'
He had never expected that Lorjia would record all these details in a small book, and write every detail neatly. To be fair, these few thousand gold coins were just a drop in the bucket for Ansu's family, and he himself was almost forgetting them all, and even some of the accounts were obtained by him through fraud. It was obvious that he could just not pay it back, but Lorjia wrote it down carefully.
Remember it clearly for Ansu.
If it were the girls that Ansu met in his previous life, they might take it for granted that boys spend money on girls. Not to mention keeping a debt, they might even use Chaos Judgment to counterattack and inflict half of the damage.
"Why are you giving this to me?" An Su tilted his head and asked with amusement, "Have you saved enough money?"
The priests of the Glorious Church make money quickly, all from the funds contributed by the believers. They can't even support themselves with that little salary alone.
This is also the unspoken rule that everyone tacitly agrees to.
According to Lorca's stubborn character, she would definitely not accept any advancement funds, and even the congratulatory gifts from the bishops were rejected by Lorca. As a result, she was once ostracized and placed under house arrest in the monastery.
Even with the salary of the Glorious Saint, she had only worked for a year, and after paying her expenses, she could only save a few hundred gold coins at most.
According to Ansu's calculations, it is about three hundred gold coins a year.
"I can pay you back now."
Luo Jia nodded. She hesitated for a moment, pursed her lips slightly, and took out a bill from her pocket. She looked around, pinched a corner of the bill with her white fingers, and handed it to An Su.
"I give it to you." Luo Jia said seriously, "The rest is interest."
Ansu took it and looked at it, and found that it was a lottery ticket officially issued by Faror, printed with the glorious emblem, and the face of the ticket was Ansu: Cersei, the odds were ten to one, and the ticket price was three hundred gold coins.
I bought Ansu Ying.
Ansu was stunned. He had never been so surprised before. Even a series of major events such as Cersei killing Dawn, Merlin making a mistake, and the advent of the Blue Witch had never made Ansu so overwhelmed. This was completely beyond his expectations.
That Lorca, the savior saint of the original world line, whose God-given title was "The Star that Shines on the Future of Naraku", was always upright. Although she was the Glorious Saint, she couldn't even afford the registration fee. Lorca Fast, a good girl who never did bad things, actually bought a gambling ticket that a good girl should never buy because she deviated from her moral code.
Is this still Luojia Fast, the top student that everyone likes?
How come you're also interested in studying for a doctorate? Aren't you afraid of the dawn? Facing An Su's incredulous questioning gaze, Luo Jia felt uncomfortable being stared at.
She looked away and lowered her head. Her snow-white eyelashes trembled slightly. After a long while, she whimpered softly, making a weak sound like a little animal.
"You're the one who taught me bad things. It's all your fault, Mr. Ansu, the lying, rude, and annoying person."
An Su was speechless. She was just a subordinate girl, and she only knew how to take the blame.
"I have never been a good child. Everything I did was for myself. This year, I ran away from the convent for the first time, I did not follow the nun's rules for the first time, I also stayed out all night, and I cursed for the first time. You taught me bad things."
Luo Jia raised her head, her bright golden eyes reflecting An Su's face. She opened her hands slightly, indicating that this was the real her. "I can't be a good child that everyone likes. I just want to be a bad child that is liked by one person."
"So as a bad kid, my first gambling," Luo Jia tilted her head. Under the frosty moonlight, her golden eyes seemed to be glowing. She blinked and stuck out her tongue, "Is this forgivable?"
"Aren't you afraid of losing?" An Su looked at Luo Jia and said calmly, "If you lose once, everything will be gone."
"Because you will win." Luo Jia said as a matter of course, "Just because of you. So I bet on you."
Three hundred gold coins is exactly the basic offering of the Saint for one year.
She spent a year buying Ansu Ying.
When everyone was pessimistic about Ansu, Luojia was the only one who chose Ansu.
Even Merlin, the god of law, bet on Cersei and chose the princess of the imperial capital.
"Then your vision is better than that of the god of magic, Lorgar Fast!"
Ansu found himself smiling, the bright moonlight shone layer upon layer on his crazy smile. He held the betting ticket worth three hundred gold coins and put it into his inner pocket. Obviously, Ansu had a betting ticket worth the price of a gold mine ticket, which would be worth hundreds of times more than this ticket after cashing - despite this, he kept this ordinary ticket properly.
Because this is the time of year for Lorga Fast.
"I took your bet ticket."
Ansu looked into Lorgar's eyes and said calmly, "And I will promise you—"
“No matter who your opponent is, you will never lose the bet.”
Luo Jia looked at An Su, chuckled, and showed a beautiful smile, and tilted her head, as if she remembered something, "The bill has not been settled yet, it says: I still owe you three blueberry cakes. Farol opened a new store not long ago."
"So - Mr. Ansu, who loves to lie, is rude and annoying."
Under the frosty moon, the little saint's eyes drooped, her snow-white eyelashes trembling slightly, as bright as the moonlight of the frosty moon. Her expression was very serious. "Do you have time tomorrow to let me pay it back?"
(End of this chapter)