*****"Who will go first?" With a confident, playful grin on his face, the elderly man inquired of Williams once the stone cutter had arrived."You should take the first step," Williams, who had already set down the boulders in his grasp due to their weight, smiled at the elderly man and replied.“Even you already knew you wouldn’t win.”"Fool, I'm glad I didn't wager on him.""I'm so clever to have staked my daughter's school tuition on the master! Now I can both enjoy the evening with a courtesan and pay for my daughter's education after the master is declared to have won.""Hehehe, though the master's stones haven't been opened yet, I'm more than one hundred percent certain that he has already emerged victorious.""Are you merely speculating? Hehehe..."The crowd continued to voice a variety of sentiments, seemingly unconcerned about how Williams might feel. They didn't even mince their words at all and neither did they bother to urge the stone cutter to start his work. It was as
*****"It’s my turn now, isn't it?" Williams inquired with a calm voice astounding the crowd."Huh?"Though Williams' voice was not loud, it carried well enough for everyone to hear. With that, everybody there couldn't help but glance at him in silence before some began to tease him."Look who's still hanging around.""Hehehe, see that? He's actually still got the guts to remind us that he’s still here even after he has already lost."“This guy, shouldn't he already have escaped”“Looks like he still thinks he has a chance of winning.”Grace was the only one who felt sympathy for Williams, but there was nothing she could do when it was Williams who had chosen this path himself.Nothing.All she could promise herself was to do everything in her power to assist Williams in repurchasing his shares, even if not all of them.“Aish, my boy. I guess It’s really your turn.”The elderly man grinned broadly when he spotted and heard what Williams said, in a not-so-mocking but at the same time,
*****“I must be perceiving inaccurately.”Someone declared with a resolute tone after a moment, shattering the profound silence that had enveloped the area.As soon as the stillness was disrupted, various exhalations of amazement commenced to resound from the crowd, astonishing the person who had just spoken and rendered him stupefied once more.“That… that was truly a color emanating from the stone!”“How can this be possible?!”“Darn!”“Could it be that a gem would be unearthed from a big stone for the first time in years!”The area plunged into an enormous uproar in the blink of an eye, and everybody began to exclaim in unison.The clamor this time exceeded the one that had occurred when color was spotted in the elderly man's stone earlier.Everyone, including Grace, found this one perplexing.With her petite mouth wide open and having lost her composure, Grace gazed vacantly at Williams, unable to believe that he had genuinely selected a stone with a gem.She couldn't react for a
*****“What a great luck he possesses there,” the elderly man murmured to himself, his eyes abruptly flashing with shock, but his voice sounding like a leader commending his subordinate's fortune.However, the moment the old man’s voice sounded, the crowd instantly turned their attention to him and then traced his gaze to the gem cutter.As soon as they saw what had caused the old man to make the comment he just made, everybody started gasping with shock, likewise praising Williams' fortune.“A red Ruby as well, but bigger than the one discovered by the master just now.”“This is one thing about people with luck!”Everybody turned into commentators, discussing Williams' fortune and all, but Williams merely continued to smile, not bothering with what the crowd was trying to convince themselves about.It was as though nothing occurring there had anything to do with him.He gingerly accepted the gem, the size of the pebble trimmed by the elderly man just now, and started inspecting it.‘
*****“This… this is a stone of fifty million dollars in the market for… for goodness sake!”Someone unconsciously stuttered with a voice behind his breath after a moment of intense shock, however, the elderly man, whose soul had nearly left his body quickly persuaded everybody again that Williams had merely been lucky.Everyone accepted this once more, as that was the only thing they could attribute the present situation to, but Williams only grinned at their foolishness and then offered the third stone to the cutter for cutting.This time around, although everyone had been persuaded by the elderly man that there would be nothing found in the stone, they dared to not focus their attention on the stone-cutting, their heart pounding in their chests as they hoped upon hope that nothing would be found in it so that they could regain their lost courage once more. However...“Was… was that not another color?”“How... how is this possible, how... how is this possible? What kind of luck is t
*****“What's happening here!”“Who are these people!”“Where did they come from?”“Since when do people of this kind have entry to this market?!”Everyone was deeply terrified now and had started to tremble.This was especially true after they had heard what the harmed people had said.They had never witnessed nor anticipated a scene like this before.Even Williams, who had never been to this market before to understand how it functions, hadn't expected this.He had assumed that a market handling billions of dollars worth of goods would have robust and tight security.He couldn't help but examine the harmed men, and when he realized they were professionals, not just random individuals with weapons, his heart clenched.Williams was about to contemplate his next steps and whether he could secretly contact Marcus to send assistance when someone suddenly pointed at him."That's him! That's the person you're searching for! Please, don't harm me!!!""Huh!"Williams' eyes narrowed when he h
*****Williams who was presently studying the person before him realized that he had started to tremble, the gun he was pointing at him some seconds ago already completely lowered. ‘Was he convulsing?’ Williams was thoroughly perplexed. It was as though the person before him had encountered a devil or someone capable of taking his life, rather than the other way around."What in the world are you doing standing there like a fool? Take the fucking bag already, and let's get the hell out of here!"Williams and the others heard the leader of the armed men shouting in rage, but the person before Williams remained motionless confusing and bewilding Williams and the crowd badly.Just as everybody was about to start entertaining all sorts of thoughts, they witnessed the man before Williams simply turn around and walk back the way he had come, looking completely dazed.'What's happening?'They swallowed hard and watched the man in a state of blank amazement, much like the way the man's com
*****[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully completing the submission; "Continue acquiring gemstones in this place until the host is approached by a human who would have a task for the host." You have been offered the following reward, would the host like to accept?]'Certainly, accept!’[Ding, the host has received the following rewards. 200qr points had been awarded to the host for completing the quest beyond expectation. The first level of the treasure-seeking eyes has been awarded to the host, Fem Villa has been awarded to the host.]'What the?'Williams was suddenly shocked badly and couldn't react for a moment. Although no monetary reward was given to him this time around, Williams wasn't sad at all.He was even beyond excited, why? Because of the skill given to him by the system.This was the skill that Williams had used to discover all the gems he obtained in the lapidary market today, and he had initially been extremely sad that he would be losing the skill sinc