The Devil's Ante Chapter 4: Chapter 4 - Networking

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I drifted in the nothingness of unconsciousness and even in that state between being and not being I still could feel the pain coming from my head. I wondered what the hell hit me. Did a goblin sneak up behind me when I was picking up a rock and hit me with their whole body? Did something else fall from the sky like I did? Or maybe that that four-foot-in-heels goddess already decided it was my time to go. The nothingness I was in got disturbed when Alea interrupted my unscheduled nap. 【YOU ARE RECKLESS KAI】 "You don't have to tell me that. That's one of my best features, beside my smile of course." 【YOUR TEETH ARE SLIGHTLY CROOKED KAI】 【YOUR SMILE IS, AT BEST】 【A V E R A G E】 "If you keep dragging me down, I'll be hit with emotional damage and lose that last point of health." 【I AM NOT HERE TO DO THAT】 【I AM HERE TO CONTINUE YOUR INTRODUCTION】 【DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU HAVE BEEN HIT?】 "I don't know, a green twat snuck up behind me or something? You tell me, I went to sleep pretty quickly." 【YOU HAVE DONE THAT YOURSELF KAI】 "What? What do you mean? I reached for the stone and broke my back or something?" 【NO KAI, YOU HAVE LOST YOUR GAMBLE】 【YOU DID NOT LET ME FINISH EXPLAINING YOUR CLASS BACK THEN】 【DO YOU WISH ME TO EXPLAIN HOW YOUR CLASS WORKS?】 "I mean, I don't have anything better to do right now." 【YOUR CLASS DOES NOT BET WITHOUT ASSURANCE】 【WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE OFFERED IN EXCHANGE FOR A LOSING BET?】 【YOUR HEALTH KAI】 【YOU ARE BETTING AGAINST YOUR OWN HEALTH】 I listened to what Alea was describing to me and it made perfect sense. If I wanted to gamble, I always had to pay for it in some way. For a simple slot pull, I had to put a couple of bucks in the machine. Here I had to pay with my own blood. "Well damn, you should have told me that before you allowed me to fight these goblins." 【IF YOU DID NOT SKIP THE INTRODUCTION YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT IT】 "If I didn't skip the introduction this little shit might have killed me with his spear." 【HE WOULD NOT】 【WHEN WE ARE TALKING, THE PASSAGE OF TIME IS SLOWED】 "Okay, I guess. That's another thing you should have told me before. Is there anything else I should know, that you 'accidentally' forgot to tell me about?" 【I DO NOT HAVE ACCIDENTS KAI】 【THERE IS HOWEVER SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT】 【WHEN YOU REACH LEVEL TWO, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PICK A PASSIVE SKILL - Glass Jaw, Iron Gut 】 【WITH YOUR TEMPERAMENT, I SUGGEST YOU PICK IT】 "Okay, I'll see what it does when I get there. Right now I believe we have a more pressing issue on our hands, my dear." 【YES WE DO】 【YOU ARE ON THE VERGE OF DEATH】 "Yeah, I've gathered. So what do we do about that? Can you patch me up? Give me a false sense of hope or something? Shit, I'll take a Band-Aid at this point." 【I CANNOT】 【I AM NOT A NURSE】 "Fantastic. Truly. So what exactly can you do for me here, Alea? Maybe teleport me again or something." 【YOU WERE NOT TELEPORTED HERE, YOU WERE RESURRECTED AND PUT IN THE SAME BODY TO SAVE ON RESOURCES】 【RIGHT NOW I CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOUR OPTIONS ARE】 【OPTION ONE - FIND AND CONSUME A HEALTH POTION】 【OPTION TWO - EAT SOMETHING】 【OPTION THREE - FIND A HEALER】 "That's good to know. So not only are you useless, you're also stingy. And let me get this straight - you want me to find a potion. I have no clue what that could even look like. Are we talking about a standard red potion with a massive plus sign on the bottle, or do they have something else here?" 【IT'S MAROON 】 "What the fuck even is 'maroon'?" 【YOU ARE NOT COLOR BLIND, I HAVE CHECKED THAT, YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT MAROON LOOKS LIKE】 "Forget about it. What about eating? What am I even supposed to eat here? Dirt mixed with crunchy rocks sprinkled on top? As far as I remember, I'm in the middle of the forest. Do you want me to hunt something or should I eat a goblin?" 【YOU ARE NO LONGER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOREST】 "Wait, what do you mean? Then where am I?" 【YOU ARE CURRENTLY BEING TRANSPORTED BY THE GOBLINS】 【YOU ARE THEIR GAME】 【THEY HAVE HUNTED YOU AN