The past three days had been the happiest days Abi had known since he could remember.
Money!
Just a few days ago, he never could have imagined it—Gold Coins, bag after bag of them, so many that an entire backpack could not hold them all.
Before this, he had never imagined that someone from the countryside like him could live the wonderful life of eating all three meals a day at the White Tit.
He could order any dish on the menu that stirred his appetite without the slightest hesitation. He could easily buy a complete set of equipment from the "Rock Hammer" Blacksmith Shop, a place he had never even dared to step into before. He could grab a handful of Gold Coins without counting them and stuff them into the envelope he was sending home.
In the past, those few Gold Coins had been earned only by putting his head on the line, risking his life to fight and struggle against all kinds of Monsters, and going through untold hardship.
Now, they were not even as much as the tips he casually tossed to the attendants in the casino.
In just three days, his status had transformed from a "bottom-rung, down-and-out adventurer" and "penniless pauper" into the object of every gambler's envy, the happiest man in all of River Valley Town—at least in his own opinion.
Abi had earned a full five hundred Gold Coins!
And the price he had paid was nothing more than that tiny bit of strength it took to stand up beside the card table and sweep the piled-up Chips into his arms.
He did not realize that when he could gently turn his wrist, flip over his cards, and earn in just half a second the wealth he used to need half a