Law of the Devil
Chapter 48 [Army-wide Gambling]
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Chapter 48 [All-Army Gambling]
In the afternoon, Dewey came to the barracks by the castle. Now there are more than 300 private soldiers in the barracks who guard the castle.
As a result of this hijacking by the magician, another group of light infantry troops from within the family has long been mobilized into the camp in order to enhance the security of the castle, and the number of private Rollins currently in charge of securing the castle and the surrounding area has reached 1,000.
Dewey swaggered his horse into the barracks, and the Robert knight immediately arrived with a man.
Robert was demoted by half when he returned from this hijacking, but only nominally, and he still had his cavalry, and he would find an excuse to reinstate himself before the end of the year.
As soon as Dewey walked into the barracks, everyone noticed... the young master's mount!
The carefully chosen, best horse in the entire castle... even Robert Knight coveted it for a long time...
And now, this snow-white hairy stallion... its tail is bald!
Looking at Young Master Dewey sitting on this bald tail horse, he seemed happy... Robert suddenly felt numb in the scalp: What does this Young Master want to do?
“Dear knight Robert, I just came to see what the boys in the family were doing.” Dewey laughed like a beast.
“Young Master, it is still spring, spring plays have just ended, everyone has been renovating recently, as for the daily patrol tasks, the cavalry team is doing... don't know what you want to see?” Robert looked at the smile on Dewey's face, and suddenly he moved in his heart and probed: “Perhaps you want to go hunting? In that case, I will summon a cavalry to accompany you immediately. ”
From Robert's point of view, the young man who was probably grounded was bored and wanted to have some fun.
Hunting is a small thing.
“No, not hunting.” Dewey laughed happily: “I'm here today to play a new trick, a new game I just came up with! ”
Dewey took something off the saddle, Robert, and that's what you see, it's a little cloth bag.
After unwrapping the cloth bag, Dewey held it in her hand, and it was a leather ball!
Well, Dewey paid for the ball.
To save money, Dewey didn't have the extra money to buy cowhide. Just go back to the room, pick out one of her own leather coats, and let the old butler find a maid who knows the needlework. Dewey simply said what she wanted...
It's just stitched into a sphere shape, and this job isn't hard. The maid finished it a few times and the stitching was sturdy.
As for the filling in the ball...
There is no rubber in the world to make a real inflatable leather ball, in order to stay elastic, you can only get some soft fillings, preferably some hair or something... like horsetail!
As such, he gave a leather jacket, plus his own horse's tail. One ball is ready.
While working on this thing, several servants next to him looked at Dewey with a "loser's eye" and only Dewey himself didn't care.
Get some allowance, we'll see about that.
“Robert, look, this is my new game I call soccer. ”
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“Eleven players on each side, one of whom is a doorman, are not allowed to touch the ball with any part of their arm except that the doorman can use his hand, otherwise it is against the rules! The goal of this game is to kick the ball into each other's goal as much as possible through the cooperation of one of your team members! At the same time, let go of each other tightly and don't let them kick into their own goal...”
The basic rules of soccer sports, Dewey gave a rough explanation. These rules are not cumbersome, and more than a hundred soldiers soon understood them.
Just kick the ball with your feet!
On the practice field for soldiers, two saddle ratios are used to draw the shelves of a goal door on both sides.
Dewey personally chose the Robert Knight and several other cavalry members who had gone out with him to form a team. Another group of officers was formed and kicked off.
At first, it was naturally full of laughter. The Rollins' officers who had not played football often habitually violated the rules. Others passed the ball in order to spread it a little farther. The knights who had fought eventually kicked the ball off with one foot.
Fortunately, Dewey was already ready, and the maid who brought the needlework immediately sewed it on the spot... while the unlucky knight contributed the tail of his horse.
Also, when a knight takes the ball forward, often the other party does something illegal to stop him... it's like letting Dewey open her eyes!
Often a person brings a ball just after half the game, the other party blocks it, kicks it in the past, not against the ball, but against people! And then the two of them almost gave up the leather ball, and you came and went, and you did everything you could! This side of the fight is shining, and the way there is sharp, I don't even like to fight!
It has to be said that these Rollins' officers are quite skilled in martial arts, have a remarkable reach and have excellent physical qualities. Instead, after a few laps of running, Dewey had no strength. He simply replaced himself and became a referee.
After a few more soft-handed red cards sanctioned some of the guys who kicked into the martial arts tournament, the rest of us finally kicked a little bit.
Dewey also demonstrated several moves with and against the ball, and tried to shoot a random ball a long shot, and one afternoon, the soldiers finally basically mastered the rules of football.
Even the rules of "off-balance”, “penalty spotting in a restricted area," “direct arbitrary ball," “indirect arbitrary ball," and so on, are playing as good as they look.
In the evening, one of the smartest guys actually learned to fake fall in the restricted area!
Despite the awkwardness of the guy's performance, Dewey had to give him a dot ball with respect. Because his favorite star from his previous life was Inzagui, known as the King of Fake Falls.
This dot also earned the outrage of watching soldiers shouting "black whistles” around the field.
One afternoon, all the officers and soldiers in the barracks fell in love with this man's movement!
The “World's First Movement” of previous generations is certainly not covered!
In the evening, Dewey had discovered that several senior officers had found their leather coats painfully handed over to the maid to be cut into leather balls, while… also contributing several horse tails.
Almost as soon as the sun went down, the group left the stadium. The soldiers who won the ball cheered away as if they had won the battle, while the losing party chewed on their teeth to fight again tomorrow.
Dewey is very happy with all of this!
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In the evening, Dewey came to the small building that belonged to him, and Solskaya had already gone back to rest, and in the evening the building belonged to Dewey alone.
Several guards were kept outside and no one was allowed in.
Dewey Ansin went up to the third floor, stood on the terrace and looked up at the sky.
“What are you doing during the day?” Behind him, Sameer sat on the railing with his tall, white calf, leaving Dewey blindfolded for a moment.
The effort opened its head and Dewey sighed: “Make money. ”
“Making money?” Semel Haha laughed and she was with Dewey all day, only Dewey could see her. Sameer laughed for a moment, clearly disbelieving: “You lost a leather coat and cut off your horse's tail, came down one day, sweated, soiled two clothes, changed only the dust... this is also called making money? ”
Dewey rolled his eyes and said, "What do you know? Wait and see. ”
It was midnight, the sky was not cloudy, the stars were bright, and Dewey looked at the time: “Can we get started? ”
“It's not hard to practice star magic… but the hardest part is to get started.” Speaking of star magic, Sameer's attitude was much more serious, that is, at this moment, the look on her face reminded Dewey of that great female astrologer.
Dewey sat down as Sameer pointed out.
“Feel it with your heart. ”
“Feel what?” Dewey stared.
“Stars!” Sameer slows down: “Feel the power of the stars.” After a pause, she explained: “Of course, at first, you couldn't feel the whole sky, and I asked you to choose one of them, and then after you sit down, you have to use all your magic senses to feel... feel the response that the star gave you... it's hard, and not one night to feel it. ”
Thereafter, Sameer taught Dewey a spell that she asked Dewey to recite while she picked a star for herself.
“Which one should I choose? ”
“The biggest and brightest one.” Sameer replied.
Dewey stunned: "Maximum brightest? God, with all the stars in the sky, which one is the biggest and brightest? ”
Sameer laughed mysteriously at this moment, and she raised her hand gently to point at the sky... beneath the moonlight, Sameer's smile was enchanting, with a hint of mystery, calm eyes and unpredictable heights!
She meant, of course... the moon!
Dewey is in the heart!
It's the moon!
He looked at Samel in front of him with amazement... the great astrologer... did she even know that? According to Dewey's predecessors, the Sun is a star and the Moon is a satellite of the Earth. They are the largest in the sky because of their size and distance to the Earth!
In fact, in this world, even magicians divide the sun, the moon, and the stars into three different categories!
But no one knows... the sun and the moon are actually kind of in the stars!
“Feel it with all your heart and feel any fluctuations! Even if it's just a little bit of a shock. It's going to be a long process, maybe a day, maybe even a year... if you can take this step before you have a chance to learn the magic of the stars... otherwise... you just have to say you don't have this gift. ”
Sameer finished, playing a lazy sitting aside, looking at Dewey with her eyes closed and looking up at the sky meditating...
At the beginning, Dewey tried to sense it in a traditional magic way...
With an extra “antenna” on his head, Dewey's inductance is very strong. He can even feel the fluctuations of the air and wind in the sky. He can feel the flow of rivers a few miles away... he can even hear the noise of running water...
But the stars, the moon...
It's too far away!
Too far, too far!
Dewey tried to expand his spiritual power, but the more the spiritual force touches the sky, the weaker it becomes... even Dewey tried her best to feel the wind at height... this is the limit!
Moon?
Dewey is a reincarnated man, of course he knows how far the moon is from the ground where he is… how far away it is!! At that distance, Dewey didn't think his mental abilities could cross that distant aspect of astronomical numbers!
Obviously, on the first night, Dewey failed.
“I can't give you any specific guidance, because these have to be understood by you.” Sameer sighed: “These things, you get it, you get it. If you don't understand, I can't make myself clear. ”
Fortunately, Dewey didn't feel any frustration. Anyway, Sameer said it couldn't be that simple. And Dewey... he's got time! He has nothing else now, but a lot of free time.
In the morning, even though I didn't sleep overnight, I meditated on Dewey overnight and my mental strength grew stronger. He was energetic and not weary at all.
Dewey implicitly felt that the spell Semel had told him, as if it had a tremendous effect on spiritual strength growth! Much more effective than the meditation of ordinary magic!
This growth does not mean an increase in the total amount of mental strength… but… it makes me feel that my mental strength has been refined and refined…
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In the morning, Dewey came back to the barracks, and today Dewey assembled more troops… virtually all of the soldiers without patrols came to the playground.
For half a day yesterday, all the soldiers involved in football games loved the sport.
And today, Dewey came up with a new way to play.
“I give a hundred gold coins.” Dewey laughed, “You can form as many teams as you want, and sign up for the tournament! Group by drawing lots... losing is eliminated, the winner continues to compete with other teams! The last team to win gets a $100 bonus. ”
Though Robert feels that this game of soccer is somewhat unprofessional... but it doesn't do any harm to the soldiers, at least it improves strength by running around. Moreover, having just gone through spring exercises, soldiers are in the process of being rehabilitated and not so rigorously trained.
Plus this young master is so excited, it's not good to refute his face...
The deeper reason, of course, is that the Robert Knight himself likes the game a lot.
Officers have no objection to the proposal made by the most honourable Young Master. The soldiers, of course, would not object.
Besides... and a bonus!
Dewey deliberately shortened the length of a game to ensure that the Cup was going on and to keep the soldiers fit.
Formal games last life lasted 90 minutes, while Dewey was only halfway there.
Soon, several registrars managing logistics in the barracks were responsible for registering, and the soldiers wiping their hands, following their own personal contacts, even simply formed a team of their own to enter the competition.
The scene of the bombardment lasted all morning, with a total of 40 teams registered at the end!
Based on a team of 15 players (customized by Dewey, 11 players on the list, 4 replacements).
The number of entrants reached 600! In other words, most of the 1,000 soldiers in the entire barracks participated.
Fortunately, the playground is big enough, and... there are lots of trees and lawns out here, so don't worry about the venue.
Dewey himself drew lots and split the group, so the Rollin family's first soccer cup game began...
Because it was a draw elimination, after the first round, only half of the 40 teams were left.
Because of the venue, the first round of 20 matches cannot take place simultaneously. So by the end of the afternoon, the top 20 were born!
By this time, Dewey, who watched the vast majority of the games, had gained enough information thanks to his magician's super mental and memory!
Which teams have better physical strength, which team players are more likely to fake falls, which team players are more talented, which teams are weaker...
These details are well remembered by Dewey.
Then, before the next round, Dewey smiled and made a suggestion:
“It's quite boring to watch someone kick... let's bet on something! ”
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