"OH MY. IT SEEMS WE HAVE QUITE AN INTERESTING FIND HERE" said Demi the Dice while passionately looking at Melton. Melton had some kind of a gut feeling that he is about to get into very deep crap. What made him sure about it is that the gentleman behind him started to show signs of fear such as slight trembling. The bald one started sipping his drink resembling a purple whiskey with clear ice in the shape of a sphere inside of it. Demi snapped his fingers and in an instant a servant with a white chair. He sat down and suggested arrogantly with his loud voice:

"SHALL WE BEGIN GENTLEMAN? I SENSE THIS NIGHT WILL BE QUITE A JOY SO WE BETTER START AS SOON AS WE CAN. HOW ABOUT A WARMUP ROUND?"

And so they went for round one. For the first round total amounted to about one platinum coin. This one was won by Demi with a straight while Melton got three of a kind and the other three for pairs. The second round amounted to about five and this time Melton won with the full house while Demi got another flush. Even though he won this one, Melton felt insecure seeing that even in the worst-case scenario his opponent can achieve a pretty good hand but he was too close to his goal to stop now. This time Melton got four-of-a-kind kings. He felt immense pressure. Like, even though he got something extremely good, his luck ran out. He did not back off despite that and went all in at the start. The other three gentlemen felt the storm that was about to come so all of them decided to fold, it was obvious at first glance that the game they were playing was not between them but between Demi and Melton, and watched the game with great anticipation. Demi seemed as if he was expecting this action from Melton and personally added 1000 platinum coins.

"SEEMS YOU HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOUR HAND. HOW ABOUT WE FLIP THE CARDS AT THE SAME TIME?" Demi said while bursting with confidence.

"Let's see what you got" Melton replied with

They both put their cards on the table. Counted to 1 together and flipped their cards. What Melton witnessed made his heart tremble. On his side, there were four kings and two hearths while Demi also had four kings and two hearths. It's as if it was an illusion, or perhaps it was rigged from the beginning. Melton did not know what to do. Considering this is his first time entering a casino, and that the opponent is the boss of the said casino, everyone would unassumingly say he cheated somehow. He did not know what to do. Panic started to slowly run through him. After a small pause, Demi giggled

"Alright, lad. Let's go somewhere private and talk" He said while turning around, waving his hand to signal Melton to come, and going off to one of the private rooms. Demi sat down and began talking.

"Feel free to sit down pal. I rigged the game."

"Rigged?"

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"Of course. Did you seriously think you could win facing me? I just needed an excuse for a talk." Demi said while doing a clap with his hands. All of a sudden a butler arrived with a glass of a pitch-black drink with a blue diamond illuminating it. He held the drink at the top of the lid and was slowly pouring it down his throat. After finishing their drink in one go he continued with his talk.

"A guy with an unusual power to manipulate bones along with one of highest priests of Bytos church seeking info about a terrorist organization. I had my eye on you for quite a while you know.

"S..so.What do you want" Melton responded with insecurity. The man in front of him knew nearly everything even though he did not sense that he was spied on even once yet the man in front of him confirmed it was just a cheap sense of security mixed with confidence. The thing that made it even worse was that he was inside the enemy den so even if he tried to fight him it would probably end up with him dying. Many thoughts went through his brain but in the end, he decided to just go with the flow. It's not like he is in place for negotiation anyway.

"You see. I have nothing against you. Actually, on the other side, you can even consider me an ally"

"WHAT?" Melton said with complete shock on his face. Such a dangerous man is offering him to be his ally. He knew that this opportunity needs to be taken

"Ahem. So. You see. I also have bad blood with the man at Council of Torment. They did make a mess quite a few times so I kept a few tabs on them. So. You need the information I have and I need your enemies gone. Sounds nice right?"

"Yeah. I guess"

"So how about we make a deal? I will support you with my intel and you will start removing them from my tab. Deal?"

"Deal"

And so. Demi the Dice and Melton shook their hands. After that, he went to pick Mathias up and went outside. Mathias was a bit confused with what just happened so Melton had to explain to him what he did behind the curtains. After a long explanation, they went back to the inn with all their earnings and opened the letter Demi gave to Melton before he left the private room. There was intel on a few smaller and less important members, the ones you can consider lapdogs of executives, along with one who was leading those lapdogs. His name was Doomblade and, from what the description said, He was a tall, grey-skinned, and muscular human with shining red eyes. A notable feature was that he had immense regeneration and some sort of immortality which was noticed because all of his weapons are stuck inside his body. His body was filled with many weapons such as claymores, katanas, daggers, scythes piercing his back, and many more. It also seems that those weapons are magical but it is not confirmed if are because of him or if are they given that way as powerful weapons. Last time he was witnessed on the east border but there are rumors they plan to do something up the northern part of the country. Melton thought to himself that if they take him out maybe they can get more information out of it.

"So? What are we gonna do?" Mathias asked curiously

"Feast well tonight because we travel first thing tomorrow" Melton replied

"WOOOO. Time for action. Her waitress! Gimme some ale!"

And so they feasted. Since Melton earned quite a buck he decided to get all drinks in his name. Everyone went to cheer and they drank all night long. Tomorrow morning he grabbed Methias along with their stuff and put him on the carriage. After getting everything ready they went on their new journey toward the north.