Daniel gently lowered his hand and said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Ted, I'm Daniel the Trader. Like I said, I've just started."

At that moment Daniel noticed that some of the merchants were giving him pitying looks. It seemed that this merchant Ted was not only buying from bandits, but also tricking other merchants into selling their goods cheaply.

Daniel couldn't help laughing. In his past life, in a country where bribery and corruption were rife, he had started out on the streets, and by the end of his twenties he had reached a position where he could be called well-off, even though he was honest and not involved in bribery.

In the process, he had brought down a lot of crooks and rogue traders. But now Daniel himself was a crook. And now it was time to hunt this carp that was on the prowl.

Ted said to Daniel, "Dude, you want a drink? Drinks on me." Daniel knew exactly where this was going. "I don't drink hard liquor, but I love dice. If you know a good game, let's go, man."

Daniel entrusted his donkeys and goods to an officer of the merchants' guild with a receipt and he and Ted went to an inn.

The inn was a two-story building that doubled as a bar and a casino, and since the weather was good, the games were played at tables outside.

Daniel ordered a tea. Ted ordered a beer. Daniel inwardly thanked the admins of the simulation for making tea and coffee common and easy to find drinks.

Not only that, tomatoes and potatoes were also available in this world, which in the normal world in the Middle Ages was not the case. The only odd thing was the lack of tobacco, which Daniel didn't mind. But someone must be very much against smoking, he thought.

Ted said, "So you want to play dice, huh, buddy?" Daniel grinned and nodded. A few different games came up. Daniel chose backgammon with great pleasure.

They started playing backgammon and the first time Ted deliberately made a few mistakes. The first bet was one gold. Daniel knew that Ted would lose this first hand deliberately. When he lost the first hand, Ted pretended to be angry and shouted, "You won this time, but you won't win next time, I bet five gold coins!"

Daniel beat Ted, who again made silly mistakes. Ted pretended to be angry again. "I'll bet you thirty-five gold coins for everything you've got, all the baggage you brought here and the six gold coins you took from me. You're in."

Daniel smiled, "You're definitely going to lose again with this inexperience, man, I think you should stop now." Ted said “Will see just play.”

They set up the backgammon again and the game began. Daniel started by playing normally, but Ted, as he had guessed, was cheating. He must have had a leather pocket in his palm. Because every time he picked up the dice, he rolled the dice for a long time and got a high number.

When he handed them back, the dice were normal. Daniel grinned and began to manipulate the dice with his power so that he always got the numbers he wanted in the dice game. These light objects weren't even straining him.

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Ted suddenly began to sweat. He was good at backgammon, but being good at backgammon made no difference if you had no luck.

Ted realized he was about to lose another thirty-five gold pieces. He had to do something. He started shouting, "Guards, guards, this man is cheating." Daniel was sure the guards were taking bribes from Ted.

Three guards appeared at Ted's call at this inn near the town center. "What's your complaint?" they asked Ted, and Ted wagged his finger, "This crook is cheating." Daniel said, "I'm not cheating." The guard said, "Okay, then let's go to the garrison and you can explain your problem there."

Daniel knew exactly what would happen at the garrison. They were going to arrest Daniel out of sight. Daniel stood up and said, "I am not cheating, you are cheating and I will prove it here in front of everyone."

Then he looked at the dice on the board, which were now normal dice. He grabbed the wrist of Ted's right hand in a fist and then squeezed it.

Ted opened his hand in pain. Daniel saearcher palm of Ted's had with his fingers. Finding the barely noticeable bulge in the skin of his hand in the crowd of curious onlookers.

He pulled out a pocket made of a very soft skin-colored fabric where it had been stuck to the hand.

The rigged dice fell to the floor amidst everyone's astonished stares. Ted was speechless, not knowing what to do, he looked pleadingly at the leader of the guards.

But Daniel knew one rule about corrupt officials, they loved to pretend to be honest where people could see them clearly. No ruler wanted officials protecting the guilty in full public view. It would quickly erode faith in their rule.

Ted was arrested in front of Daniel's eyes, he was put on the ground and his hands were tied. Daniel shouted "Hey wait, give him the amount he owes me first, his purse, his purse."

The guard took the pouch and threw it to Daniel who quickly opened it and counted the contents. "Is it enough?" the guard asked. Daniel said "just enough". In fact there were fifty gold coins in the pouch. He thought to himself, 'This asshole must be the richest man around here.

Daniel knew Ted's connections to other gangs of thugs. As long as this guy was alive, he was going to get revenge.

"As long as he's alive" was the important part.

Daniel followed the guards after some distance. Ted saw the prison cell next to the fortification tower that the guards used as an outpost, built to hold four or five people at most.

The jail was not used as a punishment but as a waiting place while awaiting punishment.

So Ted would stay in jail until the next day, when he would appear before a judge, where he would receive whatever punishment was appropriate for cheating at gambling and slander. Or maybe he could bribe his way out of it.

Daniel saw a building built against a wall. Inside was a poor old man who was obviously living in very poor conditions. Daniel would normally have planned to buy the house. But when he saw this old man, who clearly had no one, he killed him with one punch.

Then he started to dismantle the wall brick by brick. Despite his incredible strength and the relative thinness of the city wall, this required him to work at full strength until the evening, and by the end of the work the hole he had made in the city wall was only big enough for him to crawl through. In the evening he crawled out of the city.

He gave a whistle to his wogs waiting for him outside the city, wogs who were now well accustomed to Daniel's commands. Their minds had been shaped by his influence.

At nightfall he telepathically instructed his wogs to follow him in silence. At four in the morning he arrived at the prison cell where Ted was being held. Ted had recovered from the initial shock.

Even though it was the middle of the night, he shouted, "That asshole thinks he tricked me. No, this isn't over, I'm going to take it out on him if it's the last thing I do. He hasn't seen who Trader Ted is and what he can do. When he does, he'll curse the day he met me."

Daniel melted the lock on the cell door with his blue flame. This was a town, they didn't have the men to keep a guard outside the cell all day. But the guards on duty in the outpost tower would move at the sound of a scream.

Daniel hid in the shadows and ordered his wogs to attack.

The wogs rushed through the cell door. Daniel ordered, "Kill with pain." Immediately they began to tear him apart, making him scream, even though they could have torn his throat out.

Within a minute the guards were coming out of the tower, spears in hand, and Daniel ordered his wogs to run. Finally, they tore out Ted's throat, howled and ran out of the cell on all fours and escaped.

The guards didn't even try to follow the creatures. Because when the door opened, they were horrified by the sight of the dismembered Ted.