After the slave owners went bankrupt, they all wanted to keep me as a mistress.

She's already a legendary knight. What legendary knight would willingly become someone's slave?

The most important thing in life is to forget your roots!

Becoming a legendary professional first won't lead the villagers who funded his path to legendary status to become legendary as well, thus achieving a shared legend. Instead, he'll strive to go even further, to become an epic, a legend, and then help his own flesh and blood become legendary.

A person who can promote the villagers who sponsored him in the past, enabling them to become gold-level professionals and achieve upward social mobility, is already a rare and valuable good person.

Besides, she was a slave before she became a legend, and if she remains a slave after becoming a legend, then her advancement to legend was for nothing.

Even if Fiona remembers his kindness now, as long as the contract binds her for one more day, she will still regard him as a good master.

But once the contract is broken and she regains her freedom, it would be a testament to her high moral character if she didn't repay kindness with enmity and was even willing to give him some reward. She would never come back to continue being his slave!

Even if she viewed this experience as the greatest humiliation of her life, Mu Qiu would not be surprised.

Throughout history, how many such examples are there?

Many people have learned the story of Han Xin enduring the humiliation of crawling between someone's legs, but few know that when Han Xin was in his most difficult time, the head of the Nanchang Pavilion provided him with food for several months, but stopped because his wife was dissatisfied.

After Han Xin achieved great success, he became ungrateful and severed ties with the person who had given him only a hundred coins.

This is simply human nature.

When someone helps you when you're down on your luck, some will be grateful, while others will be ungrateful. But regardless, when your positions are reversed, can you still respect them as you used to?

Once Fiona becomes a legendary professional, there is absolutely no way she will ever return to his side!

Thinking of this, Mu Qiu's mind stirred, and he asked inwardly:

"System, can I only choose one of these two investment plans?"

[At this stage, the host can only make one investment. If any slave under the host's command is promoted to the Mithril level, another investment opportunity will be opened.]

After being promoted to Mithril level, will you get another investment opportunity?

Upon hearing this, Mu Qiu was immediately relieved.

Making another investment of any type will upgrade the All-in Investment, allowing him to invest two million gold coins next time!

When Fiona becomes a legend and leaves his side to become a free person, he will immediately lose 20 million gold coins from the system funds. The lost gold coins will then be converted into his personal wealth, and he will be one step closer to bankruptcy!

"This time, I'll choose a trust-based investment! My investment target is Luna!"

Mu Qiu decisively chose Luna, who was far away in the manor.

First of all, she's staying at the manor, which currently has no business and he doesn't plan to do business, so Luna can't possibly make money for him.

Secondly, Luna is a gluttonous old woman; she will definitely steal half of the one million gold coins, thus losing five hundred thousand gold coins herself.

Finally, before leaving, he specifically instructed Adele that if any guests visited, she should greet them, while Luna should stay nearby. If it was a guest that Luna disliked, she should simply breathe on them.

In this way, he has essentially blocked all of Luna's possibilities for making money!

Unless gold coins fall from the sky, or she finds money on the street, she can't possibly make a profit for him.

But even if you picked up money on the street, you couldn't possibly find a million gold coins.

Mu Qiu had specifically instructed the maids not to leave the manor before his return, in case they encountered the bandit gang again.

After much thought, Mu Qiu didn't believe Luna had any chance of making money.

Even if she doesn't secretly steal some gold coins this time, she'll have a chance to find a way to get Luna to help her incur losses next time.

Therefore, choosing Luna as an investment target is a guaranteed loss!

The more you lose, the more wealth you accumulate!

[Congratulations, host, on making a trust-based investment.]

[Ding! The investment settlement progress has exceeded 99%. Please return to the manor as soon as possible!]

Oh?

So quickly it's already past 99% of the settlement progress, which means Luna has already misappropriated more than 990,000 gold coins?

Mu Qiu was taken aback at first, then a satisfied smile appeared on his lips.

Not bad!

No wonder he's such a magnificent cat with the air of an octogenarian!

Even the system is urging him to return to the manor, which means he must have already lost more than 990,000 gold coins, right?

Then don't rush back. Stay in Earth City for a few more days and let Luna make sure he loses all of that million gold coins!

"Master, look at this!"

At this moment, Vera tugged at Mu Qiu's clothes again.

Having just made a successful investment, Mu Qiu was in high spirits and looked happily in the direction Vera pointed.

The entrance, marked with a casino logo, immediately came into view.

"Master, shall we go inside and have some fun?"

Beneath the cloak, Vera's pointed ears twitched slightly, and her pretty face showed an eager expression.

Previously, Mu Qiu had given her a potion that had a chance to grant a blessing. When she drank it, she didn't experience any reaction and thought she was just unlucky and hadn't received the blessing.

Later, after Ms. Melinda came to the manor, Vera unexpectedly discovered while playing dice that she seemed to be able to directly sense the number and position of the dice. She could even roll the dice at will, getting whatever number she wanted.

She could see even the legendary mage Melinda's little tricks of cheating.

Vera then understood.

It turns out that the blessing she received was a gambler's blessing!

Moreover, it seems to be a blessing from a very high-level gambler.

This piqued her interest the moment she saw the casino, and she wanted to test the effect of her blessing.

Besides, Vera was also a little worried.

She had never heard of her master owning any businesses. Even if her master had a lot of money, he would eventually spend it all.

But it doesn't matter, from now on she can help her master make money.

With the blessing of a high-level gambler, casinos are the places where she helps her master earn extra money.

Moreover... the number of slaves around the master is also increasing.

Although Miss Adele is usually very low-key and has always worked diligently as the head maid, just like in that history book about a noble young master and a maid from another race, sometimes the more unassuming the maid is, the more likely she is to suddenly climb into her master's bed...

Luna... she's only a little over eighty, nothing to worry about.

And then there's Fiona, that lewd knight princess, who's always staring at her master's pants.

She is Vera the Elf, she can't possibly lose to these newcomers, can she?

Let's start with this casino and make the owner smile!

I've heard that when nobles are in a good mood, they do things that are enjoyable for both body and mind with their young maids. Of course, a pure elf like her doesn't understand what those things are, and she has no intention of having any such or such thoughts with her master!

Seeing that Mu Qiu seemed to be deep in thought, Vera couldn't wait to gently nudge his arm with her soft touch: "Master, what are you still hesitating about? This is a casino! As a nobleman, there's no reason not to go to a casino, is there? A nobleman like you can't possibly miss out on brothels, casinos, and gladiatorial arenas, can you?"

Mu Qiu's lips twitched.

"Is this some kind of aristocratic three-piece suit?! Why do nobles have to go to places like this?!"

"Because they are nobles, they must have been to casinos."

Vera said matter-of-factly, "Besides, if nobles don't go, are penniless commoners going to patronize this kind of high-end casino?"

"This casino is only about a kilometer away from the Temple of Earth. Although it's not right at the temple entrance, it's practically under the temple's nose. Maybe even the bishops and priests here frequent this casino every day, and maybe there are even nuns working as bunny girls here..."

"If the temple's clergy heard us say that, they'd probably forbid us from entering!"

Mu Qiu couldn't help but complain, and then became curious as well.

Yes, this is a casino located near the temple, just a few streets away.

Are casinos in this other world really this open and aboveboard now?

Chapter Ninety-Seven: Not a Casino, But a Wealth Club?

"Then let's go in and have a look."

Mu Qiu had just confirmed with the system.

If he personally participates in the betting, then the money he pays out is his personal wealth.

But if his slaves were to participate in the gambling, then their losses would be his system funds!

Have you ever been to a casino before?

As Mu Qiu walked towards the casino entrance, he casually asked.

Vera immediately shook her head, her pointed ears twitching inside her cloak hood: "Although I've never been to a casino, we played a game called 'guess the size' when Miss Melinda came a few days ago, and I think I'm pretty lucky at gambling!"

Fiona, on the other hand, puffed out her chest with a proud expression.

"Of course I've never been there! Only a dissolute nobleman like me would go to such a place."

You've never been there?

Mu Qiu felt a surge of joy.

Two casino novices, aren't they just easy targets for money once they enter the casino?

He could almost picture the wonderful scene of the system's funds disappearing in a flash.

I still have a million gold coins and a bunch of starstones to use. Perfect, I'll take this opportunity to lose all the gold coins I have!

"very good."

Mu Qiu revealed a confident smile and said, "Let me tell you, although I've never been to a casino before, I've been fishing. Fishing is something that has a beginner's protection period!"

"The newest angler is more likely to catch a big fish! Experienced anglers, on the other hand, often come home empty-handed!"

"The same principle applies to casinos!"

Mu Qiu earnestly deceived them, saying, "People like you who have never been to a casino before can easily make a lot of money. Let's just play once. If we lose it all, we won't come back. We must not become addicted to gambling!"

Mu Qiu spoke in a very serious tone.

After all, while Vera seemed somewhat eager to try, a female knight like Fiona probably dislikes going to places like casinos.

As they spoke, the three entered the casino.

The expected chaotic and noisy scene did not materialize.

Mu Qiu glanced around and found that the casino's interior was unusually spacious and bright, with intricate gold patterns on the walls, seemingly inlaid with pure gold. It was more like a luxurious club than a casino.

In the center of the hall stands a huge pure gold statue of a goddess.

"Is this... a statue of the goddess of wealth?"

Mu Qiu was stunned.

He was certainly familiar with this statue.

This pure gold goddess statue is not exactly the same as the statue Luna picked up earlier and the statue at the entrance of the forest cave; it is more like they are identical.

Just then, a blonde woman with long, wavy hair dressed in a bunny girl outfit swayed over and winked at Mu Qiu, saying in a sweet voice, "Guest, is this your first time visiting our Fortune Club?"

"Wealth...Wealth Club?"

"Exactly!"

Before the bunny girl could speak, another shrill voice came from behind Mu Qiu.

Mu Qiu and Vera turned their heads to look, and saw a goblin with his fingers covered in rings of various gemstones walking over in a swagger.

He was short in stature with dark green skin and a small monocle perched on his large nose. If you took off that monocle and left him in the wild, adventurers might mistake him for a goblin who had escaped from a dungeon.

Most notably, he had a troll woman, three or four meters tall, with indigo skin and long, thick fangs protruding from the corners of her mouth, on each of his arms.

The two troll women wore gorgeous long dresses that could barely be considered formal wear. Their muscles were bulging, and their appearances were terrifying by human standards. However, they showed the goblin a rather docile smile and carefully bent over to let him hug them, matching the goblin's height.

"Hey kid! Is this your first time here?"