The First Interstellar Energy Gambler

Chapter 35: Challenge – Part 1

As they had hired a professional construction team, Lin Luo’s workshop was built in only five days. The interior of the workshop was deliberately built using high-grade sound insulation materials, and the exterior was deliberately built in the style of the main house, which looks very well matched.

Xing Mo moved in the cutting and sanding machine that he had received a few days ago, just in time for Lin Luo to cut the jadeite that they brought back from the warehouse.

The pieces, once cut, turned out to be all high quality jades, and there is also a notable piece of green hibiscus jade. These jades should be enough for Yin Ye’s next auction.

Just as they finished sanding the last piece of jade, the light brain on Lin Luo’s wrist suddenly shook, prompting him that he had received a message. After clicking on the message, he found that the message was sent by the Stone Gambling Association, and stated that he had been challenged by a man named Chen ZhiGang.

“Why is this person challenging me?” Lin Luo was a little stunned. He didn’t even know the person who challenged him.

“Let me see.” Xing Mo leaned over and took a look, and found a link below the message. After clicking it, he was taken to the page of the official website of the Stone Gambling Association where they listed the contestants for next year’s Stone Gambling Tournament. The list is 97 pages long, and Lin Luo’s name is on the last page of the list. If you click his name you can see his registration information.

【Personal Information】

【Name: Lin Luo】

【Sex: Male】

【Age: 21】

【Record: 1 win, 0 draws, 0 losses】

【Win rate: 100%】

【Rank: Beginner】

【Points: 10】

【Ranking: 9732th】

【Registration time: July 4, 1522 IC】[1]

The Stone Gambling Tournament is an empire-level large-scale event. All stone gambling masters in the entire empire will participate in the Stone Gambling Contest. Due to the large number of participants and the different levels of skill, the entire competition adopts a ranking system. It is divided into five ranks— Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Professional, and Master.

Participants can gain rank points by challenging opponents of the same or higher rank. When the points reach a certain value, they can spend the points accumulated points for rank upgrades. In the Stone Gambling Tournament, they can participate in the competition of their rank.

If you are defeated in a challenge, a corresponding number of points will be deducted. If your points are lower than the minimum needed to maintain the rank, then the Stone Gambling Association will be forced to demote you and you can only participate in the lower rank competition.

The higher end content and rewards are also different for different ranks.

For example, the beginner and intermediate tier competitions are actually just considered entry-level competitions for rookies in the stone gambling industry. The participants are usually stone gambling amateurs. Even if they win the championship of their bracket, there is nothing to be proud of.

Advanced level and above are the areas of professional stone gamblers. If you can get a good place in those competitions, you will definitely win both fame and fortune.

The person who challenged Lin Luo is another beginner rank player. He has a score of 95 points and a record of 13 wins, 1 tie and 4 losses, with a winning percentage of 72.22%. As long as he earns 5 more points, he can be promoted to the intermediate rank. It seems that he wants to get points by challenging Lin Luo, so as to rush to the next rank level.

An easy target will definitely get picked. Of course, the challenge is to challenge a novice easy enough that you can be confident in beating them.

It’s a pity… Lin Luo isn’t that easy of a target.

Lin Luo thought about it for a moment, and then chose to accept the challenge.

Soon, the Stone Gambling Association sent a new message, telling Lin Luo to participate in the stone gambling battle at the Kipola Branch of the Stone Gambling Association at two o’clock in the afternoon three days later.

Because Lin Luo was the challenged, the venue for the challenge was chosen to be nearer to him at Kipola, and the Stone Gambling Association gave both sides three days of preparation time.

Although there is nothing for Lin Luo to prepare as he has his special abilities, he still learns the knowledge related to stone gambling very hard. After all, he really likes gambling, and not just for fame or profit.

Three days passed in a flash, and soon it was the day of the challenge.

The two arrived at the door of the Kipola Branch of the Stone Gambling Association in a suspended vehicle. Although it was only a branch, the branch’s building was also very magnificent.

After the two registered their identity information at the door, someone immediately came out and led them to a location specially prepared by the club for the challenge.

The auditorium for the match area used here is deliberately arranged to look like an arena. The arena is surrounded by stadium seating, and a cutting and sanding machine is placed on the left and right sides of the high platforms, so the contestants can complete the cutting and sanding without being affected by each other.

As an escort, Xing Mo could only sit in the auditorium, and there were already dozens of people seated at this time. Lin Luo couldn’t have thought that even this kind of novice-level challenge would have attracted people to come watch.

In the center of the ring, there are hundreds of pieces of jadeite that have recently been mined from the same jade vein. The two of them need to select two pieces of jadeite within 30 minutes. After cutting, the person whose jade has the higher value wins.

These jadeite come from the same vein, so the matrices are similar. In addition, they are selected and placed together randomly. It can be said that there is clever way to choose or rule to follow. For the contestants, it can be very difficult to choose and a significant gamble.

===========Translator’s Corner===========

[1] Shortened ‘Interstellar Calendar’ to IC like you see AD, BC, CE, & BCE in dates.