An ice-frozen Avenger camp.

The battle no longer continued in the real world, but as far as the eye could see, it was as white as the dead cold of winter, but there was no sign of fading, and even the noon sun was obscured by a thick cold fog, and the sky looked gray.

Although the caster himself fell unconscious due to the mana feedback, the freezing magic would not dissolve on its own for a short period of time due to the support of several large magic arrays secretly placed underground. This also means that the tens of thousands of lives in the Avenger camp will wither away in the bitter cold.

However, there are exceptions.

A crack appeared in a humanoid block of ice, from the inside out, from short to long, from less to more...... In the end, even the cold ice could not resist the strong and fiery battle spirit of the warrior who was sealed inside, and it shattered.

A strong warrior covered in frost, his whole body was frost-white, he shivered with cold, his hands were blue, and his lips were purple, but he had overcome the ice that had imprisoned his body's freedom by his own will.

"Ahhh......h

Joyka, who regained her freedom, raised her head to the sky and let out a long roar, causing the war spirit to burn to a higher limit.

Trembling, he picked up the Mithril alloy longsword on the ground, and jumped on the spot, rolled, swung the sword, and sprinted, despite the sharp pain caused by the freezing of the joints on his body...... Through strenuous exercise, the body temperature continues to rise, so that the blood flow is accelerated. Joyka played the swordsmanship and combat skills taught by Teacher Tismu and comprehended in long-term actual combat, one after another, and the movements became faster and smoother, and the burning of the battle spirit became more and more vigorous.

In the end, he let out a shocking cry, turned into eight shadows, and slashed at the eight frozen trees around him at the same time, and then the eight figures disappeared at the same time, returning to the same place, Joyka still maintained the movement of swinging the sword, but the last trace of chill on his body was completely evaporated with the instant release of the battle spirit.

A few seconds later, eight large trees that had been cut down, along with the ice covering the outside, broke off from the stems of the trees and fell to the ground one after another, making a series of loud rumbling sounds.

Joyka, whose body was fully recovered, was sweating profusely and panting. He looked around, but there was no sign of Sophia and Christina and the rest of the people who were still moving, only Cassius who fell to the ground vomiting blood and was unconscious. Joyka knew she had missed a battle of shame.

"Hmph, stinky girl, dare to plot against me, I will never let you go!" Joeyka thought to herself.

Although he had long been mentally prepared to bear the humiliation, as a bounty hunter who was meticulous and could not tolerate the slightest mistake, Uncle Joyka was actually played with by a little girl to that extent, and he would not feel comfortable in his heart anyway.

Suddenly, something fell out of his pocket.

Joyka bent down to pick it up, and it was an old tarot card - "The Hermit".

"Owen, I've done everything I can for you, don't miscalculate, you kid. ”

Rewind time to a few days ago, the day before the camp of the Enlightened Civilians.

Nokiarik Town is a small town more than ten kilometers away from Shangri-La, a border city of the Pole Kingdom. "Dancing Clover" is the largest of the town's only three casinos. At this time, the "Dancing Clover" casino was more lively than ever, because the casino welcomed a strange customer. This thin, dark-faced young man with a bad hand was extremely unlucky, but he was extremely generous, and his addiction to gambling was not in the least curtailed by the loss of a large amount of money, even though he had lost all the principal he had with him, and he still owed three times more gambling debts than the principal.

However, most people in the casino don't know that this "big fat sheep" in their eyes is equivalent to the existence of demons in the casinos of Shangri-La, a big city not far away.

In the past month or so, all the owners of Shangri-La's casinos and the large number of thugs they have raised have been repaired by this "demon" with extremely poor gambling products and gambling skills. No one can afford to mess with it, so you have to hide. So the casino owners of Shangri-La City banded together and set up sentry posts at the city gates, and as soon as Joyka was found to be in the city, all the casinos would immediately close their business and close their doors.

In the face of such a scene, Joyka was just helpless, so she could only transfer the "battlefield" to the surrounding towns. Today is also the day when "Dancing Clover" considers himself unlucky.

Just as Joyka tossed and turned for a day and a night, stretching and preparing to leave in his "personal standard" manner, he suddenly found that the thugs and dealers in the neighborhood were smiling and groaning beside him, without the ostentatiousness and ferocity of ordinary casino creditors.

"Venerable young master, our boss has set up a game upstairs and invites you to go up and have a game. A man who looked like a dealer foreman said with a grin.

"Heh? There is such a thing! But Uncle Ben has no money, so he doesn't gamble. Joyka scoffed, this kind of trick he had encountered before, it was nothing more than a trick of "closing the door and beating the dog".

"Regarding money, the young master doesn't have to worry, our boss said that the cost of this game is all covered by the store, and the young master will be responsible if he wins, and the young master will not be responsible if he loses. With that, the dealer foreman waved his hand back.

A small dealer walked up with a tray of Vivino, and the gold coins on the tray were piled up like a hill, and the golden luster caused the most focused and engaged gamblers around to exclaim.

The pile of gold coins was a lot of money for many people, but Joyka had seen a lot of wealth before, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it when he had lost his interest, until he saw a small piece of it sandwiched between the piles of gold coins.

"Okay. Tell your boss. I'll go for this bet. Joika pulled the small piece out of the pile of coins.

It was an old tarot card - "The Hermit".

A few minutes later, the second floor of the casino.

All the dealers and thugs were kicked out, and only the host and guests were left in this room.

"Oh, when did you switch to running a casino?" Joika chuckled, not expecting him and Owen to meet in this way after months of separation.

"Just yesterday. Owen, who was sitting in the boss's high-back swivel chair, smiled, "I knew you would definitely come here in the next two days, so I bought the entire store from the original owner." ”

"I don't think the 'acquisition' process you are talking about will be carried out in a peaceful way. ”

"I don't think you'll be interested in knowing. ”

"Well, get straight to the point. Now that you've set up a bet, let's get started. Joyka raised his hand slightly, and threw the tarot card "Hermit" towards Owen, "What do you want to bet on?" ”

"Sophia. Owen replied indifferently.

Strangely, Owen didn't reach for the tarot cards, but the "Hermit" flew some distance in the air before turning a corner and flying back to Joyka's hand.