"Dong!" Another dice was thrown out, making a sound as it hit the table.
Immediately after,
The players gathered around the table could all see two dice, identical in material, size, and weight, rapidly spinning, colliding, and bouncing on the giant screen of the tabletop.
"Dala la la~~~"
The sound of the dice rolling was infinitely amplified at this moment, tugging at the heartstrings of all the "gods."
They appeared calm, but their flickering eyes betrayed their inner turmoil.
These players were accustomed to rolling dice to decide the fate of game creatures, but when they became part of the gamble themselves, that sense of disorientation and panic filled their hearts.
Naruto just watched quietly, his eyes deep, as if he already knew the future.
Finally, the dice's spinning power ran out.
The dice representing the Awakened God stopped first—ten points!
A considerably high score!
After all, these were twelve-sided dice.
One point was the lowest, twelve points the highest.
Ten points was only surpassed by eleven and twelve.
"Heh."
The light and shadow of the Awakened God rippled slightly, letting out a light chuckle of unknown meaning, and the surrounding players also seemed to let out a sigh of relief.
Ten points was already very high, with a very high chance of winning.
"Mere game bugs, malicious AIs, dare to compare yourselves with us real players."
However, the dice belonging to Naruto, though thrown first, was still stubbornly spinning, seemingly unwilling to stop just yet.
It wobbled, and finally even hit the edge of the table, bounced once, and then finally settled.
All eyes instantly focused!
On the top of the dice, the crimson points were dazzlingly bright—eleven points!
Exactly one point higher than the Awakened God's score!
"Eleven points! It's eleven points!"
A spectator player instinctively gasped, then immediately covered his mouth, realizing that the timing for cheering was wrong, and the atmosphere was also wrong.
Silence descended once more.
The dreadlocked man representing the Awakened God's face was dark and grim, looking at the two twelve-sided dice on the table screen.
Ten points seemed like a silent mockery, appearing incredibly ridiculous in comparison to that glaring eleven points.
"No—impossible!"
The Awakened God's voice became sharp and filled with incredulous anger.
"You cheated! You're a game AI, you must have cheated, tampered with the game code, and manipulated the dice!!"
He couldn't accept it!
He, a dignified "god," a player from the real world, actually lost to an anime character he considered a bug, an AI?!
The key was losing his player privileges.
This meant he couldn't continue playing this board game.
This was simply a great humiliation!
It was a complete subversion of his cognition!
The dreadlocked man tried to control his account, but found he couldn't do anything.
"Is it really broken?"
The dreadlocked man was surprised, doubtful, and angry.
His account, just like that, was "hacked"?
Naruto's voice remained calm: "The dice are game items, the rules you agreed to, the points you saw with your own eyes. Can't you afford to lose?
So-called god."
These words were like lighting the fuse of dynamite.
"Bastard!!!"
"I also bought this board game for ten thousand dollars with my friends! What kind of trash AI is this, hacking my account! I want a refund,
I want to quit the game!"
The dreadlocked man completely erupted in rage, his rationality swallowed by immense humiliation and a sense of loss of control.
What bet, what rules, what dice of the gods, he no longer cared!
The dreadlocked man was like a madman having a fit, only wanting to destroy, to destroy this trash AI, this trash game that made him look foolish.
"Lowly AI! Disappear! Along with this damned board game!!"
He roared, stood up, picked up the stool from under him, raised it high, and prepared to smash it onto the table.
The action was very much like a gambler who had lost his mind, furiously wanting to overturn the gambling table!
However, just as he violated the bet and attempted to destroy the absolute rules set by the dice of the gods by "overturning the table"—
"Whoosh!!!"
The floating, originally simple and unadorned dice of the gods suddenly erupted with an unprecedented, heart-pounding crimson light!
An indescribable, supreme, cold and ruthless "power of rules" instantly descended, breaking through dimensions, breaking through space, like the hardest lock, the sharpest spear, "stabbing" at the dreadlocked man.
[Warning: Severe violation detected! Attempting to destroy the absolute rules of the 'Gods' Gamble'!]
[According to the highest protocol, execute purge punishment!]
[Target for purge: 'Player ID - Awakened God' — Purging — — —]
A cold, emotionless notification sound seemed to echo directly in the depths of the dreadlocked man's soul.
Similarly, in the dreadlocked man's vision, one crimson, rapidly popping up and stacking warning window after another appeared.
Neither the pop-ups nor the notification sound came from the board game, but rather, like a system, acted directly on the dreadlocked man. Even the player closest to the dreadlocked man could not hear a single sound.
This power was not from the Goblin Slayer World.
Instead, it originated from Naruto's Underground City system!
To be precise, the dice of the gods he exchanged from the Underground City Mall were fundamentally different from the dice thrown by players in the Goblin Slayer World!
Suddenly, the dreadlocked man's body stiffened abruptly, his eyes instantly widened to their limit, his pupils dilated, and all color drained from his face.
"Miao. —. · — — —"
He made a few unintelligible gasping sounds in his throat, his hands unconsciously clutching at his chest, as if trying to grasp something rapidly slipping away.
The next second, he fell backward like a puppet with cut strings, crashing heavily onto the floor, the stool he had raised in his hands falling with him, making a dull thud.
His dark face was frozen in an expression of terror, anger, and disbelief.
Sudden cardiac death!
The price for violating the rules by overturning the table was paid with his life in the real world, in the most direct and cruel way.
"Quick, call the police!"
"No, call an ambulance first, call an ambulance!"
"Jack! Sunray, his heart seems to have stopped beating?"
"FUCK, what the hell is going on?!"
After the dreadlocked man suddenly collapsed, the players were in chaos.
Goblin Slayer World.
Naruto did not know that the player representing the Awakened God was punished by the system and processed as deceased for overturning the table.
After the dice points were decided, he gained the Awakened God's authority, and then retrieved the dice of the gods floating in the void.
In the deep, dark void, a complex, strange pattern resembling an eye flew down and branded itself onto Naruto.
Naruto had seen this intricate pattern before.
The Witch had once shown him a similar pattern when she made a magic item for Naruto to shield the Nine-Tailed's perception.
Clearly, the pattern represented the Awakened God.