While Ahab was still on his way to Arx Polaris which was happening at 00:30 AM, Dante have already finished his mission and was back to the headquarters by 00:45 AM, On his returnal he entered the headquarters and asked one of his legions:
"What games you got over here commies?" The legionnaire slowly turned his face with a dead smile and said:
"Gambling."
"Hoo haa! You sure you are enjoying this?" The legionarie replied:
"I will hit big this time." And the other legionarie playing against him said:
"SUCK MY TOES ARTEM, YOUR FROG ISN'T GETTING THE GOLDEN FLY ANYTIME HAHAHAHAHAHA." Dante then pulled back a little bit and went to one of his legionarie spectators and asked:
"The hell are they doing? That's a new gambling game i dont understand!" The spectator answered:
"Well because new headquarters means a new home so new home means new toys, so we searched for new games ideas and we found frogs on a small lake nearby and we had the brilliant idea of getting these frogs, putting them in a element manipulation proof glass walls and here is where fun starts!" Dante started to look at him with disgust, and he said:
"Oh no bare with me lord Dante we about to enter the fun part!"
"Enlighten me..."
"Ok so, now that the frogs are visible to us but we can't do anything with them, we snuggle in some flies and we mark these flies by specific shiny colours only visible to element users, the lights that we have are white, blue, red and gold.
if you go by the order that i said, white flies got the lowest points at 10 points and gold flies got the highest points at 40 points, we then wait for the frogs to eat the flies and the frog that eats more flies especially the valuable ones that got higher points wins and it's owner wins the bet, don't worry it's totally not harmful against the frogs."
"Hmmm...no thank you, i dont think i will play this weird form of gambling."
Twenty minutes later:
"COME ON YOU FAT GREEN SKIN EAT THAT FLY OVER THERE!!!! I WILL LOSE SOME SERIOUS MONEY IF YOU DID NOT EAT THAT FLY"said Dante with pure frustration as he already placed twenty denarius on his frog to win and get more points, sadly though, his frog barely ate three blue flies and his opponent frog ate two golden flies and one red fly.
The timer was then over and the referee said:
"Alllllright match is oveeeer, and we have the blue fang (opponent's frog name) with a grand total of 110 points and the mud dominator (Dante's frog name) with a grand total of 60 points, congrats on the winner and harder luck on the next rou-"
"GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK HERE YOU SHIT SACK HAAAA." Dante said those words while interrupting the referee and stright up jumped on over the glass cage and catched his legionarie opponent with the money and said:
"GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK!!" and he replied:
"I am sorry lord Dante but the rules of gambling are fair and just to all, and if you don't like it, then with all due respect go fu-"
"GO WHAT?? NAHH COMPLETE YOUR WORDS, SAY IT!!!" As Dante's eyes started emitting cyan fire.
"You...can...go fund more money from my monthly salary haha, right guys?😁😅" and all the other legionaries agreed, Dante then laughed and said:
"Haha i got you this time, don't worry, i wouldn't do such a thing like that at all." He then helped his opponent and gave him a helping hand and said:
"Yeah no, i wouldn't such a thing like that wouldn't I? Everyone then from the spectators agreed and started cheering, Dante then got close to his opponent's ear and said:
"For now..." and left, these two (02) words left his opponent in his place unable to describe anything for a moment of time, questioning his very own existence, Dante then said to himself:
"(That will definitely stir up some shit in his mind) anyway how about any other new games to playyyyy woaaww what is that?" Dante's eyes fell on two legionaries playing a game were they have to put there hands in a big pile of grass as if they were searching for something, Dante asked the spectator:
"What now? That game looks new too." He answered:
"In this big pile of grass, they are searching for a shiny paper, the paper got a near perfect texture that is very close to grass, whoever the interesting part is that both contestants are being blind folded and are demanded to search for it, the main goal isn't to have the paper on your hands, but to have the paper on your side of the pile.
Lastly, the referee of this game got a very sharp pair of eyes so if he saw you barely looking beneath or trying to use elementto determine where the paper is, you will be caught and loose double the amount of money you bet on." The referee of that game then said:
"Aaaaand the winner iiiiiiis Volyaaaa!!!" Dante replied:
"Seems much better than relaying on an insect eater, i am invested!" Dante then stepped in and raised a bet of one aureus, the match was very tense as dante absolutely throwing as much grass to his side like a tractor transferring dirt from a point to another.
The match time was over, the referee said:
"Aaaaaand the winner iiiiiiis Dante!!" Dante absolutely celebrated for his victory, spoke to the spectators andsaid:
"Listen up yall, there is a very important lesson in life, that lesson is that gambling is bad for many reasons, its not fair and it's not good for your own mind."
At this moment Dante's opponent smiled because he felt that Dante will pass it this time and wouldn't take his aureus, but Dante said:
"And so for that,...I shall be obliged to take your money to teach you how unfair it is" Dante then took his opponent's aureus and left with a wide smile on his face toward that pool that he was at when Ahab and Aitor took there first shortcut at.