Chapter 34 - New Ability

"Don't think that just because you won, you can leave." Garif smashed his fist onto the metal table, rising from his seat.

"I think that's exactly what it means." Raina responded, her eyes glistening at the 10 golden tokens manifesting before her; the number 1000 imprinted on its reflective surface, "Nice playing with you, champ." She twirled the coins in her fingers as she stood up as well with a grin.

"You wench!" His calm demeanor once again disappeared like the flipped of a switch, his hand raised in front of him as a thick concrete wall rose in front of Raina, her eyes darting over to the culprit with annoyance.

"Just piss off already, you fucker!" She suddenly grabbed her shoe and thrust it right between his eyes. All in a single movement, rendering him momentarily frozen in utter shock and surprise.

Using this split second of opportunity, Raina glanced back over at the wall; slightly glitching away. Springing into action, she bolted. Straight back into the people-packed casino.

Her eyes shifted around until they locked onto the ability orb stand, darting over, she scanned over the couple dozens of orbs, her eyes scanning through the pricetag.

"Give me these two." She pointed over to a green and blue orb priced at $2,500 altogether. She tossed three of her tokens over as the receptionist swiftly accepted the tokens, handing over the orbs as she handed back 5 red 100 Tokens.

With no time to waste, Raina grabbed all her items, her eyes constantly eyeing over by the entrance.

"I found you." A sudden voice growled behind her as her head whipped back, "Let's stop playing this game of tag, hm?" Garif's voice brimmed with malice.

Gripping the orbs in her hand, she hastily tossed them in her mouth

[New Ability: Hair Manipulation]

[New Ability: Super Speed]

"Perfect." She murmured, a grin rising from her lips, "Go kill yourself," She raised her middle finger before activating her ability.

The world around her slowed down as Raina raised her hand in surprise, "So that's how this works,"

With no time to waste, she raised her hand. Bring it down with as much force as she can muster on Garif's face, then another, and another, and another. By the time Garif could respond to the punches, she was already 10 punches in; his arms slowly raising in an attempt to block his face.

By the 50th punch, Raina could feel the energy draining her arms, her breath slightly haggard from exertion.

"And... action," she spoke as she took a step back and deactivated her ability.

The sight of Garif's face being completely bombarded with invisible punches and eventually falling to the ground without consciousness completely satisfied her thirst for revenge.

"Now, where was I," Raina let out a breath of relief as she stretched her back and whistled. She twirled around and strolled toward the casino machines, "Next goal. 2 million." Her eyes squinting as she eyed her purple orb placed on display.

"Alright, let's see." She made her way toward the biggest crowd. The roulette machine.

"Please make your bet on the betting machine." A staff bowed as he pointed over to a small metal screen with a touch screen.

Hopping over, Raina scanned through the information.

[Bet toward one or two of the following options.

1 selected = 2x Bet Reward

2 selected = 4x Bet reward

Options:

Red

Black

Odd

Even

Bet Amount:

]

Glancing at the roulette table, the last ball had landed on 12 red.

Tapping her finger on the metal console she selected [black]. [Bet Amount: 500]

[Bet Confirmed: Black, 500]

The roulette on the table spun as everyone held their breath in anticipation.

The ball was thrown. It rolled, tumbling over each little bump as the roulette slowed. The ball hopped, tumbled, inching slowly forward, left, forward. It stopped. 17 Black.

"I got it!"

"Nooo!"

The different cheers and cries from the crowd burst out, resonating all around the casino as a few heads turned to the commotion. Many, however, were already accustomed to the occasional noise.

[You have won 1000 Tokens]

A golden token dropped into her hands.

Flicking it into her palm, Raina glanced around at her peers, noticing them slipping their tokens into a small card, before slipping it into their pockets.

Scanning the room for something like a store of some sorts, she located an adjacent section of the casino labelled "Token Shop"

"That must be it," She hopped over, weaving through crowd.

Inside, the same red over-glamorous and obnoxious wallpaper filled her vision. The gold decorations and highlights scattered around the walls and roof did however somehow make it more bearable to look at.

Along the walls were giant glass displays, inside filled with all sorts of items that could be purchased with tokens, ranging from a few tokens to a few hundred.

Browsing each section, all sorts of items. Food, arcade type toys, weapons.

Scanning through the display she quickly found what she was looking for. Placed by the register was 3 card sitting side by side. White, red and black.

Hopping over for a closer look, a small information tablet sat below the display.

[Token Card

Store all your tokens in this card. Compatible with all transaction within the territory.

(100 Tokens) White Card:

Card Limit = 100,000

(10,000 Tokens) Red Card:

Card Limit = 1,000,000

(100,000 Tokens) Black Card:

Card Limit = Unlimited

"I'll but the White card," Raina pointed over to the card as the cashier nodded, opening a small compartment within the register and pulling out a white card.

"100 Tokens." The cashier spoke with a quiet voice.

Raina slid the money over as the cashier accepted it and slid the card over a machine. It beeped as a green light lit up.

"The card has been activated." The cashier handed it over with a bow.

"Sweet," Raina grinned as she swiped it off the table, testing it out with her tokens.

As the golden tokens came into contact with the surface of the card, it suddenly disappeared replaced with a digital number of 1000 on the card. She placed another one as the number rose to 2000.

Gathering up every token in her pockets, she slid them all into her card as it flashed a 8,400.

As Raina stared at the number displayed on her card, the cold hard reality slowly dawned on her. She needed 2 million tokens. Right now, she only had 8 thousand. At this rate, the goal was like a caveman reaching the moon. It would be a tedious and time consuming task.

There must be another way.