[Age 0: You were born into an ordinary family on the Xianzhou.]
[Age 1: At your first birthday's picking ceremony, you immediately grabbed a pair of dice.]
[Your father was overjoyed; he was a gambler. Your mother was full of sorrow. The family once had some assets, but ever since your father became addicted to gambling, their financial situation deteriorated day by day.]
Without an illustrious heritage, it was indeed a bit hard to get used to.
This opening was quite difficult. Of all the bad things to encounter, it had to be a degenerate gambler for a father.
This also made Victor despise gambling even more.
Unfortunately, the simulation continued.
[Age 6: Your father finally gambled away the last of the family's assets and committed suicide after accumulating massive debt.]
[Bad news came one after another. The actual creditor behind the scenes was the Interastral Peace Corporation, which meant your family owed the Corporation credits.]
[As the largest capitalist entity in the universe, the Interastral Peace Corporation had plenty of ways to collect debts 'reasonably, legally, and in compliance with regulations.']
Reading this, Victor raised an eyebrow. He knew from Jarilo-VI that the Corporation's contract terms were utterly tyrannical.
There was definitely no such thing as a debt being cleared by death. It would most likely be 'the son pays the father's debt' to maximize the Corporation's profits. If the father dies, the son pays; if the son dies, the grandson pays. Not only would they have to spend their entire lives paying it back, but their descendants would also have to honestly repay the debt, with high interest added on top, of course.
Just as Victor was wondering if he should restart, a turning point appeared in the simulation.
[The group of people who lured your father into his gambling addiction forced their way into your home, intending to take your mother to pay off the debt. Your choice is...]
[1. Call the Realm-Keeping Commission or the Cloud Knights to report it.]
[2. Provoke the other party and lure them into a gamble with you.]
Choosing '1' would definitely be too late. Besides, the other party was acting fearlessly, and with the Interastral Peace Corporation behind them, reporting to the Realm-Keeping Commission or the Cloud Knights would likely be useless.
Victor pondered for a moment before directly choosing '2'.
Isn't this the perfect time to use the golden 'God of Gamblers' Trait to turn the tables~
[You used sarcasm and taunts to provoke the other party, trying to anger them into a gamble.]
[You succeeded. The other party was enraged and insisted on forcing you to gamble, but you didn't have enough capital.]
["Don't I still have my life? I'll bet with that," you said faintly.]
["You've got guts, kid! If you win, the debt is wiped clean! If you lose, I'll take your life!"]
[Although it was your first time gambling, your father often took you with him when he was alive. Through this constant exposure, gambling was not unfamiliar to you.]
[You easily defeated your opponent, displaying an unparalleled talent for gambling.]
[Despite losing, the other party was ecstatic. Even those in the criminal underworld know that talent is what matters most. Your gambling talent made him eager to recruit you.]
[He even offered to adopt you as his godson so you could follow him and learn the art of gambling. You hesitated for a moment, then chose...]
[1. Righteously refuse his offer.]
[2. If you would have me, sir, I am willing to acknowledge you as my godfather.]
Victor knew at a glance that choosing '1' would be a death sentence.
The other party was a gangster; they would rather destroy a talent they couldn't have than leave it for someone else.
What's more, he held a 'grudge for his father's murder' against the man.
Fine. Although he hated degenerate gamblers, failing to avenge his 'father's murder' would be a disgrace to all transmigrators.
After all, many transmigrators were ruthless characters who would slaughter an entire family over a slight insult.
Since the other party was giving him the chance to play Lü Bu, there was no reason to be polite.
Victor decisively chose '2'.
[You acknowledged him as your godfather.]
[Age 7: Under your godfather's arrangement, you learned various gambling techniques.]
[Age 8: Learning various gambling techniques...]
[Age 18: You had achieved a degree of mastery in gambling and were already capable of completely wiping out some masters of the gambling world.]
[Age 20: You made quite a name for yourself in the gambling world.]
[You gradually discovered that while you were godfather and godson in name, he was actually always wary of you, treating you as a tool for making money.]
Victor stroked his chin. This was how a normal villain behaved. Someone who could rise to the level of a local boss in the criminal underworld couldn't possibly be a simple character.
His only weakness was perhaps his greed—coveting his gambling talent and using him to make money. By letting him live, he had also planted a hidden danger for himself.
If Victor were in his shoes, no matter how talented the other person was, Victor would show no mercy. He would cut the weeds and pull up the roots, not even sparing the family dog. He'd even scramble their eggs for good measure.
After all, he was no saint.
[You buried the thought of backstabbing him deep in your heart. You knew you had to be patient, firmly believing that as long as you stayed by your 'godfather's' side, an opportunity would arise sooner or later.]
[Age 200: This wait lasted for a whole Amber Era. During this Amber Era, you swept through the universal gambling scene. Whether it was psychics with special abilities, kings of cheats skilled in trickery, Pathstriders, or intelligent machinery with super-strong computational power... countless masters of the gambling world were defeated by your hand.]
[It was rumored that you even defeated Aventurine, one of the 'Ten Stonehearts,' and an unknown Emanator of Elation at the gambling table, attracting the attention of Aha.]
[You became the true God of Gamblers in the universe!]
[Your godfather made a fortune off of you, even rising to the rank of a P45 senior executive in the Interastral Peace Corporation.]
[And then, he crashed and burned.]
[After a whole Amber Era, you finally found your chance. You teamed up with Aventurine to set a trap, which not only cost your godfather everything and left him bankrupt, but also caused him to lose his executive position at the Corporation.]
[Plunging from the peak of his life to rock bottom, he couldn't handle the blow and chose to leap from the Corporation's headquarters on Pier Point, turning into a godfather-pancake on impact.]
Seeing this, a tall, sturdy, and imposing figure seemed to appear before Victor's eyes, raising a Sky Piercer Halberd high and letting out a soul-shaking cry.
"A true man, born between heaven and earth, how can he languish long under the heel of another!"
What surprised Victor even more was that his simulated self was truly patient, and truly ruthless.
Making his enemy lose everything at the absolute peak of their life was more painful than simply killing them. The enemy was driven to suicide by jumping off a building—a textbook case of utterly crushing one's spirit.
[After successfully taking revenge, you declined the Corporation's upper management's offer to stay, returned to the Xianzhou to live in anonymity, and began the leisurely life of a retired lord ahead of schedule.]
[To you, the art of gambling was merely a tool for revenge, nothing more.]
[Age 210: Although you had already retired, legends of you still circulated throughout the universe. However, you had always kept a low profile, and given the special nature of the gambling circle, outsiders barely knew what you looked like.]
[One day, while strolling down a street in the Exalting Sanctum, you saw a group of gamblers gathered together, playing a mahjong-like card game.]
[Seeing these gamblers, you felt an instinctive disgust. This was especially true when you saw that one of the players at the table was a young girl in green clothes.]
['So young and already going down the wrong path!']
[Rage welled up from your heart, and you immediately decided to teach her an unforgettable lesson.]
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