While feeling the weight of the money in my hand, Kanami and I went to Avenger and his company.
Since we had earned more than enough money, we can quickly travel to the 5th round.
Fortunately, finding the Avenger group was easy since they were in the area where the Coliseum arena-based fighting and gambling occurred.
I found them at a good moment, right when the Avenger knocked the King of the Arena out of the ring with a light blow.
The king of the arena had been undefeated until this point, so the odds were stacked in his favor. Therefore, a large amount was won with the Avenger's victory, with his four teammates having placed all their money and hopes on him; they all had an overjoyed look on their faces.
I would have liked to have gone further into the dungeon with the Avenger group who rejoined us, but Kanami-chan wanted to have breakfast in one of the restaurants located in the 【Holy Land of Gambling】. The dish was incredibly expensive, but a dungeon monster cooked by a dungeon chef was so delicious, it was priceless.
Suddenly, I had to order it several more times.
After a little break, we moved on. We could move to the fourth round for free since I had earned more than requirement to advance a ring, so I just paid for everyone to go straight to the 5th round.
(This is so hard, I'm gonna die T-T. I promise to stop pushing for manga translations if this is what you guys have to go through ~RDCro)
The final and 5th round in the deepest center in comparison with the other ones was extremely small since only a few could reach here. Because there was no need for a lot of space, as a result it felt a little cramped. In exchange however, the interior decoration could be compared to that of a palace. Furthermore, the amount of money moved here were several magnitudes higher than that of a kingdom. I was told that the equivalent of a small country's national budget could be won or lost in a single game. As such a place, the wealthy could lose an overwhelming amount of money.
At the same time, if there are those who could lose everything in just one defeat, there are also those who could become wickedly wealthy when they were just at the brink of bankruptcy before.
Right now, I saw a well-built middle-aged raccoon beast-man desperately screaming after losing a big game, and a dragonnewt in underwear flushed with excitement giving a courageous shout of victory. Thinking it a very understandable reaction, we glance at this presentation as we pass by.
We stopped once we reached a certain place.
This was something similar to a department store.
There were armor and magic potions, books and ornaments, precious jewels the size of a fist, lightly laying haphazardly on the shelves.
It was clear that these were all goods for immediate sale with the price tags attached to them, but the amount asked made it seem like such a rip-off that it's someone's joke.
However, the quality was not a joke. The store sold armor type magic items with powerful stealth abilities, consumable medicine providing [longevity] or [internal magical power increase], and other incredible magic potions, a magic book (Grimoire) containing a terrible magic spell, as well as jewelry containing mysterious magic. So many wonderful treasures that it was impossible to look away.
If you look at them carefully, really the prices seem quite reasonable.
If you were to ask why there is this kind of a place in the 【Holy Land of Gambling】? First of all, the merchandise are all items lost from visitors, where after losing too many games with the dungeon monsters, were used as collateral for a bet.
But anyway, there is not much use for visitors coming to the 【Holy Land of Gambling】 to buy anything because honestly, the dungeon monsters will just end up winning them back. (I guessed the meaning of this sentence from the other two translations because the original one here made no sense. It would help if a native Japanese speaker could confirm this line from the RAW ~Anon Editor)
As a result, there are all of these items here on display are luxurious commodities, but only the conqueror of the dungeon can end up buying them.
Before in the earlier rings, there were these places too; but, the things here should be of the highest quality. With this expectation, I took a brief look.
I only took a brief look because one quick glance is enough to tell that the quality of goods is different in each section. That's why it made no sense to waste money there purposelessly.
Incidentally, for a certain period of time the original owner has a preferential negotiating right to buy the item supplied after it has been exhibited, where no one else can get it. So if the last owner appears with enough money, he will be able to buy the item back. However, actually doing so is quite difficult.
The items exhibited here are things with a extremely high value in order to cover the large bets; so to buy them, you need quite a large sum. At the same time, buying back