After leaving the Wetland Fort bargain market, Angel and Laplace headed straight for the Bloodstone Casino across the way.
The moment he heard "casino," Angel instinctively pictured a smoky, rowdy, dimly lit place. Yet once he entered the Bloodstone Casino, he discovered that this casino was nothing like the one he had imagined.
Though there were quite a few people inside, everyone was quiet, each holding a stone and peering at it endlessly through a magnifying glass.
If no one had told him this was a "casino," Angel might even have suspected it was some kind of geological research institute.
Then again, studying stones with magnifying glasses... reminded Angel of some appraisal programs on the Holographic Tablet.
"Could this be... stone gambling?" Angel muttered under his breath.
"What did you say? Stone gambling?" Laplace turned to look at him.
Angel shook his head. "Nothing. I was just curious why they're all holding stones. Isn't this a casino? Are they gambling with those stones?"
Laplace nodded. "They are indeed gambling with stones, because some of those stones contain blood ore."
As Laplace spoke, Angel saw a large pile of stones displayed not far away. A sign stood in front of them, covered in unfamiliar writing that recorded the uses of those stones.
He called it "unfamiliar writing" because Angel did not recognize the script on the sign, yet after staring at it for a while, he somehow understood its meaning in his mind.
Could this be some kind of writing that conveyed information through consciousness?
Just as Angel was wondering, Laplace said calmly, "This is one of the Ancient Tooth Fairies' techniques. What is on the sign is not actually writing, but patterns drawn by Ancient Tooth Fairies using special ink. Through these patterns, they can connect to the consciousness of