Chapter 157: A large stack of betting tickets
"If you owe money, you have to pay it back, and if you don't pay it back, you will pay it back!"
Siffner turned into a little devil and whipped the face of Count Donald hard.
In order to understand the reason, Lin Xiao quietly used a super-level magic called "Time Flow Regression".
Asking the goddess directly is too troublesome for the Demon God of the Destroying World.
Lin Xiao felt that it was more comfortable to detach himself from the flow of time and watch things from the sidelines.
So, the clock went back to ten minutes ago.
Lin Xiao, as an existence that should not have appeared here at this time, obtained the state of "unobservable".
In other words, the two people in the box couldn't see him.
Lin Xiao looked at the situation in the arena and confirmed that there was no problem with the timing of his jump.
At this time, Gollum had already killed the Gale Wolf King in the arena.
The time went back exactly ten minutes ago, and there was not a minute or a second of error.
"Very well, let me see what these two are up to."
For some reason, Lin Xiao's eyes seemed to be a little dissatisfied.
His gaze also glared viciously at Donald, who was sweating profusely in his seat.
"This, how is this possible ......"
Earl Donald, who had been very arrogant before, was already dead.
The dozens of lottery tickets he held in his hand had mostly turned into waste paper.
Although Donald's title is not high, he is one of the richest people in the Boon Empire.
Many of the industries he operated covered more than a dozen large and small countries centered on the Boon Empire.
The Donald family is already a family-run business empire.
As a patriarch, Donald had a bad hobby.
That is to like "betting".
Of course, the overly shrewd Donald wasn't betting indiscriminately.
In the face of the "Colosseum Arena", the largest betting market in the entire continent, he is also fully prepared.
The upper echelons of the arena, from the top of the arena like Lylis, down to the middle level like Hessen, have more or less accepted bribes from him.
These people wouldn't mind leaking information about the slaves to the wealthy Earl Donald.
So, long before tonight's Colosseum, Donald's private calculus team performed the most accurate calculations of the results of the show based on the data provided by the arena side for the various levels of abilities of the participating slaves.
It stands to reason that his bet should be a sure, if not foolproof, bet on the bottom line.
Compared to those aristocrats who blindly staked their entire fortune, Donald certainly had a visceral sense of superiority.
Making money gambling in the arena is as easy for him as cutting leeks.
Tonight's beast show is another great opportunity to harvest liquidity for your business empire.
However, Donald never imagined that there was such an "outlier" as Gollum among the slaves who participated in the show.
"Damn, why is that orc so fierce? Could it be that the data that the arena has given me is wrong? ”
Donald really couldn't understand how a level 35 orc berserker could kill a level 50 gale wolf king surrounded by hundreds of gale wolves.
Looking at the "performance" in the arena, the earl's heart became colder and colder.
"It's over, I, I'm ......"
Looking at the betting slips with bets written on them in his hand, Donald's hands kept shaking.
He had put down a whopping sum of 1.5 billion gold coins in tonight's betting.
This money can be regarded as almost all the liquidity of the Donald family's business empire.
Originally, the 1.5 billion gold coins would make at least 200 million gold coins for the Count tonight.
But this unexpected performance result put Donald at risk of huge losses.
"This, this kind of outcome, I'm afraid no one can bet on it, right?"
It wasn't until the arena announced that Gollum had led the slaves to victory in the Colosseum show that the Count came to his senses slightly.
Slaves win over monsters in a colosseum show, something that has never happened in the Colosseum's operation for decades.
I'm afraid that the vast majority of nobles did not expect such an outcome, and most of them will bet on the wrong treasure like Donald.
As is the case with Arena betting, the winner of the bet will be rewarded with twice the amount of their bet from the total amount of the bet.
When the winning amount of all bets is distributed, the remaining gold coins of the total bet amount will be returned to all the nobles involved in the gambling according to the proportion of the bet.
So, if the bet on the winner is not much, Donald won't lose too many coins.
"I remember, that guy bet 50 million gold coins on his slave to win."
Donald glanced sideways at the goddess Sifna, who was still eating a snack in her seat.
"How would they know that slave was going to win?"
The Count shook his head, putting aside the doubts in his heart for a moment.
"They bet 50 million, and if they win, they will get a betting reward of 100 million gold coins, which is about 30 million gold coins lost on me."
Donald, who is quite "economically minded", quickly calculated the results.
The total value of the Colosseum betting market is about 5 billion gold coins, and Donald, who has bet 1.5 billion gold coins, accounts for about 30% of the total bet amount.
The 100 million gold coins that Lin Xiao won were distributed to his head, which was almost the loss of 30 million gold coins.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm afraid it's only their family who bet on that orc to win, right?"
Thirty million gold coins is undoubtedly an astronomical amount of money for ordinary people.
But for Donald, it's not an unbearable loss either.
The dozens of betting tickets in his hand were fought hard by Gollum, although most of them did not win, but a small part of them were successful.
If Lin Xiao was the only one who bet on Gollum to win, it would not have much impact on the overall distribution of gold coins.
In this way, through tonight's betting, Donald can even get one or two hundred million.
"Phew, I was a little flustered before, it's a shame."
After careful calculation, the earl, who was still very flustered, was already determined in his heart.
The colosseum, which is held only once every two months, is considered a big event in the arena.
Although this time it did not meet the expected income of 200 million gold coins, and there was no loss at all, this result was still acceptable to Donald.
Of course, the Earl's hard-managed composure only lasted until the goddess Sifna pulled out another stack of betting slips from her bosom.
"Wow, how much money can I get now......"
The goddess looked at the betting slips in her hand one by one, and her eyes were shining.
"Wait, lady, what are you betting on with those tickets?"
Looking at the smiling Sifner, Donald couldn't help but feel a very bad feeling in his heart.
"Of course, it's all over the orc to win."
"What did you say?"
Donald already felt like he was about to crack.
"You, you're saying you didn't bet more than 50 million?"
"Of course, Brother Midnight said that he had faith in his slave, so he added the bet amount."
"Chase, how much more?"
"I don't know, it seems to be five billion gold coins?"
The goddess smiled and patted the thick stack of gambling slips in her hand with a maximum amount of 50 million gold coins, and looked at the fat earl who had gone into cardiac arrest with a smile.
[Explain the betting mechanics of the Colosseum.]
1. All bet amounts will go into the "Bet Pool".
2. If you win the bet, you can share twice the amount of your bet from the "bet pool".
3. When all the bets are distributed, the remaining amount in the "staking pool" will be returned to all bettors in proportion to the original bet.
4. The Colosseum will take 5% of the gold from the "staking pool" as a commission before all allocations.
5. If the amount of the winning prize exceeds the total amount of the "staking pool", all the bettors will share the gold coins in the "staking pool" according to the proportion of the initial staking amount. 】