Chapter 107 - Invading A Hospital (Part 2) (1/2)

”What are you talking about!? The Wizard is worth 15 points alone and if he is with the Scorpion his points will double!”

”What the fuck is this rule you just made up!?”

Two of the four guards were arguing with the cards on the table. Meanwhile, the other two guards looked bored and sleepy at their excited colleagues. It was past midnight and their shift was just beginning.

”Get going soon, boys. The rules of 'Luck or Fight' with the Kaloru Deck are flexible...”

”That's it... stop complaining, Jefferson.”

In the card version of 'Luck or Fight', an imaginary war camp is formed and each card in the deck has a specific value and effect on the battlefield. Each of the participants is allowed four cards per turn and can choose to hold them in his or her hand for the next turn or not.

In the end, the participant with the most points wins the round, and the common winning number to win is two, meaning it's a best-of-three match. You are also allowed to put cards in the deck that are not from Kaloru's deck, and in some regions, participants may even have unique decks.

Jefferson huffed in frustration because he was very close to winning the round and let his colleague double his Wizard's points.

”Go on, get it over with soon.” He said and threw his last card on the table.

The card that landed on the table had the drawing of a Hawkeye, which nullifies all the Scorpio cards on the table. Without even realizing the move he made, the man stood there with a shit expression, while his colleagues stared at him dumbfounded.

”Bro, you're really good at bluffing. There's no way...”

”Fuck, you're giving your life to win this game. What a dumb bastard.

”You might as well be a circus performer instead of a guard, motherfucker.”

The men cursed Jefferson and began arranging their cards on the table for the next round. It took the young guard a few seconds to understand why his friends were berating him, and when he finally realized it, a haughty smile appeared.

Little did the guards know that just a few meters inside that huge hall, a half-beast was snooping bed by bed in search of a familiar smell. There were dozens of patients separated by curtains and doing this search in silence took a few minutes, however, Luke's meticulousness and sense of smell ensured that he found what he was looking for.

Amidst so many different smells, he did indeed find a familiar smell, but one that seemed to be distorted. He followed this smell and on a bed very close to the guards' table, he found Matthew sleeping.

His childhood friend had changed almost nothing in the short time they had not seen each other. The white strands in his hair, which blended in among the brown strands, had not proliferated much further.

However, something had changed. The left side of his body, the same side where he lacked an arm, was partially warm, and thick bandages were mainly reversing that region of his body.

Seeing his friend, the half-wolf mentally joked, 'If he were awake, he would surely be betting right now with those noisy guards.'

Matthew is a shrewd, fair, handsome, and smart man, but one of his biggest flaws is not knowing when to stop. One day, when he was around fifteen years old, he got involved in a bet with a lucky crazy man.

The crazy man bet a bag of ten gold coins, and Matthew, with no penny in his pocket and no close friend to warn him, bet the only thing that was worth anything to him: his good arm, his left.

When he came home without an arm, but with 10 gold coins, everyone knew he had done the possible and the impossible. At the time, Luke told him that he should have robbed the guy before he lost his arm, not the other way around.