Chapter 24 (1/2)

Chapter 24: The Magi Crystals 2

Three days later, Luke along with his group returned back to their territory.

When Luke arrived at his permanent residence, the servants who heard of his return rushed in like bees.

“Young Lord! What in the world were you doing?!”

“No matter how dire the situation was, how could you take away the statue of your ancestor! The symbol of your family!”

“You need to place it back, right away!”

Luke smiled at all the servants.

“I already sold it to a blacksmith. It should have been long melted.”

“Oh my!”

Several shocked gasps could be heard from the servants.

Hans, closed his eyes trying to suppress his emotions and talked to Luke.

“So, have you got the 30,000 pesos?”

“No, only got 2,300 pesos for it.”

“Huhu! That could be true.”

The man who laughed with an unpleasant looking smile was Terin, the manager of the Alon branch.

While he was walking around, Luke decided to blow the bubble.

“We still have two more days, right?”

“I just came here beforehand to see things. I just wanted to know what will happen after I get the 30,000 pesos.”

“Really? You want to know?”

“I’m curious because I’m in business.”

At the words of Terin, Luke took a step towards him.

He squirmed something in his hands and shoved it into the mouth of Terin.

“Here, go and receive 30,000 pesos!”

“Kwuk!”

Rolling down on the floor to gag it out, he squealed while spitting out the thing.

Seeing the thing fall on the ground, Terin couldn’t help but get shocked.

“This!”

“This, this was the note that was issued for you.”

At the Gigant arena, when getting paid with large dividends, they usually used notes issued by banks and traders with high credit rather than handing gold coins.

And that allowed Luke to haul a very large amount of money instead of carrying it around in his pockets.

‘This doesn’t make any sense! It hasn’t even been ten days yet, where did this kid get this sum of money…?’

Terin looked over at the note.

He was under the impression that it might have been forgery, however, the patter and the stamps on the paper, and the feel of the paper felt very Alon like.

“How, how did you?”

“You don’t need to know, and I’ll give you your interest right here so get off my land right away.”

Luke threw the remaining coins at Terin.

However, Terin wasn’t able to say anything back.

It was just another two more days for the bet to be finished, and for such a thing to happen!

Terin felt like he missed something huge, that was when Luke pulled out his sword.

“Get off!”

“Huh, yes, yes!”

As anger made its way into Luke, Terin rolled away.

As surprised as Terin was, so were the servants and the retainers.

They were all thinking that the debt wasn’t going to get paid, but a huge change had happened.

“Young, lord. How did you get the money?”

Luke simply answered the question from Dixon,

“It was betting.”

“The 2,300 pesos?”

“Yes.”

“What kind of a method did you use to call ten times the amount in less than 10 days?”

With the pursuit of the retainers, Luke went into the permanent residence, leaving them behind with just one word ‘secret’.

And all the attention went to Philip, who was left alone.

And that meant telling them right away.

‘Ah, this is going to hurt me.’

The winning money at the gamble hall, the truth about getting a jackpot at the Gigant Arena, they were the facts that he could never tell.