Dragon's Awakening: The Duke's Son Is Changing The Plot
Chapter 150 - 149 - Gambling is bad.

Chapter 150: Chapter 149 - Gambling is bad.

[New system notification: You have crossed the 100,000-point barrier.]

"Huh."

Raven raised a brow at the first notification.

He knew when he received that notification. He didn’t even have to think hard about it.

’It was when Grandpa gave me the shock of 100,000 plot points.’

Yeah. That was when he had crossed the 100,000 points threshold for the first time.

If his guess was correct, then the other notifications were of the same day—except for the last one, of course.

[New Feature Available: Random Voucher.]

[New Feature Available: Divine Trade Auctions.]

[New Feature Available: Talk To Me.]

These three features were of the same day.

So, while his feet never stopped moving following the shadow of the crow overhead, he opened the first one.

[Random Voucher:

Use 50,000 divinity to roll the roller of your luck.

The vouchers range from the rarest, an Extra-Life Voucher, to the worst, a Zero-Discount Voucher.

What the user draws depends on their luck. (Can only be used once a month.)]

’Gambling...’ Raven muttered, his expression dreamy.

That was the first thing that came to his mind when he saw the item’s details—especially because he knew he had a free chance.

[The first trade has been successful. A Random Voucher token has been transferred to the trade storage.]

Yes, the last notification promised a Random Voucher token.

Looking at his storage, he could already see a coin lying peacefully.

"Yo, you ain’t seriously gonna spin this thing runnin’, are you?" Omni’s voice echoed in his head, a mix of disbelief and brotherly concern. "C’mon, man. At least sit your ass down first. No need to rush this kinda stuff. Ain’t you heard? Luck rides with the patient—not the ones trippin’ over their own pants."

Raven, however, wasn’t hearing him.

His mind played the scene of his first gamble in this world.

He was scared, as it was supposedly a gift from the system, and it depended on the user’s luck, but soon, when he saw what he had received, that shock turned into elation.

That was when he got the Plot Armor.

Since then, he never gambled, but things had always been lucky for him.

Yes, he suffered a lot, but eventually, the results showed.

Crisaius, for example, wasn’t supposed to wake up so early, yet he did, all because he wanted to pee (that’s what Crisaius told him).

Then he got Dragonification.

Then, without him realizing it, he became a friend (buttlicker) of the strongest god.

He got a sword that was supposedly useless for others but turned out to be a god-slayer.

That showed his luck had always been good.

’Must be the perk every protagonist enjoys,’ Raven thought before he willed the Random Voucher function to open.

Clink!

With rock music playing in his head, a roulette with hundreds of sections popped up before his eyes.

He couldn’t see the names of the sections, as they were colored sections with nothing written on them, but Raven was sure that one of them held the Extra-Life Voucher and one had the Zero-Discount Voucher.

"Hey, hey!" Omni’s voice buzzed in his head again, firmer this time. "I want you to stop for a sec and think this through, alright?"

Raven, however, wasn’t deterred. "I did. And I’m spinning."

"I know you’re the protagonist, man," Omni said, trying to talk some sense into him, "but don’t you know? Protagonists always lose when they get cocky! That’s like, rule number one of dramatic ass-whoopings!"

"I’m not getting cocky. I’m merely learning what it means to be the protagonist," Raven replied, and before Omni could say anything else—

Click.

He clicked the button that said, "Use a token."

There were only two buttons; one said, "Buy a token," while the other said, "Use a token."

He used it.

"Fuck..." Omni sighed, heavy with regret. "Now you’ve done it. Whatever happens next? That’s all on you, man. I tried to stop you. Don’t say I didn’t."

Clink-clink-clink.

The roulette rolled and rolled and rolled, and after what felt like an eternity, it seemed to slow down.

Raven didn’t look away, nor did he blink.

Red. Blue. Green. Yellow.

All sections crossed and then came again, and Raven wished for something—anything—other than red because red gave him a bad feeling.

Tick-tick-tick... tick...

The roulette slowed down, now moving at a speed that made Raven’s heart race more than it should.

He could feel his heart all the way up in his throat.

Raven could hear nothing of the surroundings.

He could see nothing.

Only gods knew how he was even running, jumping over branches and overgrown roots.

It was as if he had developed spidey senses.

Just then, when the pin seemed like it was about to stop on the red section and Omni started chanting prayers—

"Where are you going?"

A voice came.

"Whoa! What the fuck! Who was that?!" Omni yelled in Raven’s head, but his focus remained on the roulette.

Even Raven jerked, tripping over a root, but he didn’t look away from the roulette. He couldn’t.

Just a few more seconds and it would be decided if the pin would stay on red or cross over.

Just a few seconds.

Neither Omni nor Raven could look away.

Step. Step. Step.

They could hear the sound of someone closing in, but they didn’t move.

"You really came alone, huh?" The voice asked again; the question was different this time.

"How foolish can you be?"

Raven and Omni, however, were busy chanting something else.

’Please not red! Please not red!’

Then—

It stopped.

The pin stopped on the red section, and Raven’s eyes dimmed.

The shadow behind Raven, on the other hand, loomed closer.

’What’s wrong with him?’ That person thought. "Have you realized that you won’t be leaving alive?"

Shing!

A dagger was drawn as that person closed in.

’It doesn’t matter what’s wrong. I will kill him and be done with it.’

Raven, on the other hand, was now dead on the inside. "Why?"

He muttered.

"Why is this happening to me?"

The shadowy person behind him came into light, flinching as he thought that this question was for him.

It was Travis, and the crow that had led Raven here was sitting on his shoulder.

"Why, you ask?" He growled, his black eyes bloodshot. "Because you are the one responsible for my current situation!"

As soon as Raven heard those words, he raised his head, staring ahead.

"...you are responsible for my current situation," he muttered.

Omni, hearing those words, added. "Yeah, if this guy hadn’t butted in... If you didn’t trip like a toddler on ice, maybe the damn roulette wouldn’t’ve tilted, and just maybe—we wouldn’t have crashed straight into the red zone."

That made no sense. The roulette was virtual. Even if Raven hung upside-down, it wouldn’t be affected, but Raven believed Omni’s words.

"What are you muttering about?" Travis frowned, cautiously closing in toward Raven, who still had his back facing Travis.

The demonic human was ready to stab Raven the moment he was in range.

Raven, on the other hand, called out to his sword. "Omni."

"Aye, boss."

The tattoo on Raven’s arm pulsed before Omni appeared in his hand.

The time seemed to have slowed as soon as Omni appeared.

Travis was so focused on killing Raven that he wasn’t able to notice it.

Above all, it happened in an instant.

’I will kill you and take your head back to—’ These were the guy’s thoughts before he saw Raven turn around with a whoosh, and the next second, a black sword humming with violet energy passed through Travis’s neck.

Swish!

"Ah, damn. It was you?" Raven, who had now turned around, saw his face, and his eyes widened.

"Fuck, I thought it was some demonic subordinate of yours," he cursed. "Now I can’t get information about Alex out of you."

"We killed him mid-monologue, didn’t we?" Omni asked Raven, making Raven rub his chin.

"Looking at his expression. It does seem that way. He died mid-monologue."

Travis couldn’t listen to Omni’s voice, but he could hear Raven’s, and the content made him frown.

’Who is he talking to? And what does he mean that I died?’

Travis couldn’t understand, but Omni, looking at his frown, shrieked in Raven’s head.

"WHOA! Yo, the dead guy’s face just moved! Did—did you see that?! I ain’t trippin’, right?!"

"No, you aren’t," Raven replied, moving closer to Travis, observing his expression. "This guy’s mind just hasn’t realized that he’s dead."

Before Travis could think of something else, the crow on his shoulder, frozen stiff for a while, turned into dust.

"See? Even his summon vanished now that he’s dead."

It was then that Travis realized.

He hadn’t felt it, but that black sword in Raven’s hand had cut his head off.

It was just so clean that his head still remained above his body.

As soon as he realized that, he closed his eyes, and the moment he did—

Thud!

His body fell forward, his head rolling down some distance.

Raven, now standing alone in the clearing, sighed.

"There goes our lead to Alex."

However, he wasn’t worried anymore.

If Travis was leading all this, meaning he was the strongest demon out here, then there was no way Alex would die.

Alex was now strong enough to defeat this guy, much less his goons.

"Uhh... so, like... should we, y’know, check what we pulled from that wild-ass gamble?" Omni asked, pulsing lightly as if he was side-eyeing the air. "I mean, whatever madness it is, we might as well see what shit we pulled."

Raven sighed and opened the interface.

"Yeah, we might as well see what it is."