“Haah. I feel alive again after that caffeine.”
Rubbing his stiff neck, Zeronix walked into the office holding a freshly brewed coffee.
The usual glow of the monitors.
And—unlike usual—the extremely uneasy back of Frost.
“Huh? Something happen?”
Zeronix asked casually, taking a sip of his coffee.
Frost slowly turned around.
His pupils were trembling as if an earthquake had hit him.
“Hy-hyung…”
Even his voice trembled like a goat’s bleat.
“Just now… Silver-nim… she…”
Frost couldn’t easily finish his sentence.
Like someone about to confess a burden too heavy to carry.
“Silver-nim? What’d she do this time?”
Zeronix asked nonchalantly, sipping his hot coffee.
There shouldn’t be anything going on for Silver Silver to shine right now.
All the special raids and events had ended.
The Cornerstone of the Final Battle event was currently running, but all it involved was collecting money.
At the moment, there wasn’t much to do besides farming gold.
“Silver-nim… she made some money. At the… casino.”
“Oh yeah?”
Zeronix let out a short laugh.
At best, she probably earned a few hundred thousand gold.
Maybe got lucky and hit a million?
The odds were stacked against players anyway.
Even if she won, it couldn’t have been that much.
Frost gulped and continued in a trembling voice.
“Th-the amount is…”
“How much did she win for you to freak out like this? Don’t tell me she got all the money we need?”
Did she really earn the full 45 million gold?
Zeronix asked jokingly—just at that moment.
“1.5 billion… gold.”
Pfffft—!!!
“Kuh?! Cough, cough!”
Zeronix sprayed the hot coffee in his mouth straight into Frost’s face like a fountain.
In that surprise splash show,dark coffee droplets mercilessly soaked Frost’s white shirt and face.
But Frost didn’t even flinch.
He didn’t have the mental capacity to care about that.
“W-what?! What did you just say?! Did I mishear?! 1.5 billion?!”
Zeronix coughed and demanded confirmation.
The paper cup in his hand fell to the floor, coffee dripping everywhere—but that didn’t matter.
Even if you added up all the gold circulating in the entire Pixel Wars server, it probably wouldn’t reach that amount.
And one single player made that?
In just a few dozen minutes?
“Yes… 1.5 billion gold…”
Frost nodded with a dazed expression.
He didn’t even think to wipe the coffee running down his face.
Zeronix felt like fainting right then and there,but years of streaming experience didn’t betray him.
He quickly gave orders.
“Shut down the underground casino immediately! Put up an emergency maintenance notice and take the server—no, wait, don’t shut down the whole server. Just suspend the casino’s functions for now!”
“Y-yes, sir!”
Frost frantically pounded his keyboard.
“And also! What were you doing while she was making that kind of money?! You should’ve stopped her!”
Sure, winning money in the casino wasn’t exactly against the rules,but wasn’t that amount just… absurd?
How could he just sit there while she raked in a ridiculous 1.5 billion gold?
“If you noticed anything abnormal, you should’ve slammed an emergency maintenance right then and there.”
Frost protested, clearly feeling wronged.
“I-I was watching the whole time! At first, she was actually losing little by little. I thought she’d end up losing it all.”
Frost’s voice grew faint.
“Then she suddenly hit a winning streak… When she hit around 50 million gold, I figured she’d go buy the power core.”
“And then?”
“Who would’ve thought she’d suddenly dump her entire fortune into the 30x multiplier slot?! I mean, who could’ve imagined she’d actually do that…”
It all happened in an instant.
Right after winning 50 million gold, she went all-in on the 30x multiplier without hesitation.
And hit it.
In that brief moment, there was realistically no way to stop it.
“She went all-in with 50 million gold on the 30x multiplier?”
“And actually won that?”
Zeronix was at a complete loss for words.
It was pure madness.
Thud.
His legs gave out, and he collapsed into his chair.
1.5 billion gold.
The impact that would have on the server economy was unimaginable.
They’d launched the event to drain gold from circulation—but instead, an unmanageable amount had flooded into the system.
‘No, before that…’
A fundamental question passed through Zeronix’s mind.
‘How?’
The underground casino.
He had personally reviewed and approved it.
He remembered the probability structure clearly.
It was subtly designed to favor the house.
To be exact: by 2%.
According to the law of large numbers, the player would eventually lose.
Sure, once in a while, someone might get lucky and win big—but that would always be temporary.
In the end, the casino gold was fated to return into the system’s hands.
But Silver Hair had defied those odds.
It wasn’t just the final 30x multiplier win that was the problem.
It was the journey from 500,000 to 50 million gold—That in itself was a magical act of defying probability.
How could someone achieve such an abnormal win rate in a system designed to favor the machine?
Was there something going on?
A hidden bug?
A system hack?
No, if there had been foul play, Frost wouldn’t have stayed quiet.
Then… did that mean it was pure skill?
Or some kind of supernatural luck?
Zeronix was overwhelmed with confusion.
His mind felt completely blank.
This server he believed he controlled and managed.
Now housed a small silver-haired girl who mocked logic and probability as she rampaged through it.
At this point, it wasn’t just awe he felt—it was fear.
“You shut down the casino, right?”
“Yes, hyung.”
“Then let’s start thinking real hard… how the hell do we deal with that 1.5 billion…”
Zeronix sighed.
He had no idea where to even begin, but something had to be done.
That was their job as admins.
Frost also groaned deeply and grabbed at his hair.
***
“I… don’t really like gambling.”
Yoo Seoyeno muttered quietly after sweeping up the entire 1.5 billion gold.
At those words, Rydel, who was standing beside her, made a face that clearly said, “What the heck is she talking about?”
“You just won 1.5 billion gold, and you’re saying you don’t like gambling?!”
Hadn’t she just shown some god-tier gambling skills a minute ago?
And yet she claimed she didn’t even like gambling?
“Well… it wasn’t entirely luck.”
“…Sorry? Are you saying gambling isn’t about luck?”
“When the roulette spins, if you really focus, you can feel the sounds it makes… even the tiniest vibrations…”
Yoo Seoyeno’s eyes turned toward the roulette wheel she had stared at earlier.
“You can predict the result to a certain degree. You know, the higher probability spots.”
She paused, choosing her words carefully.
“Especially the 30x multiplier slot—it makes a slightly different sound from the rest, probably because the payout is so high. You can hear it, right before it stops.”
She said it so matter-of-factly, like it was no big deal.
But Rydel couldn’t close her gaping mouth.
Predicting the next number… using sound and vibrations?
Was that even humanly possible?
“The differences are really subtle and delicate, so I kept making mistakes at first. But the more I focused and listened… the more familiar it became. I just pushed my senses to the limit…”
As Yoo Seoyeno calmly explained, a chill ran down Rydel’s spine.
Come to think of it…!
It had been strange.
When Yoo Seoyeno first walked into the casino, she kept losing money—just like a clueless newbie.
Even Rydel had thought, “Yep, nobody beats the odds forever.”
But then suddenly.
Right after she went all-in with 500,000 gold—her win rate shot up like she’d awakened.
She hit 5x multipliers in a row, had a few small losses, but overall came out massively ahead.
As if defying probability itself.
And now she was saying it wasn’t just luck, but the result of data accumulation and pattern recognition?
“Can a human… even do that?”
A memory flashed through Rydel’s mind—Something a viewer had sent during a café tour stream.
“The Sniper Dealer of the Casino.”
An urban legend about an insanely skilled roulette dealer who could, with practice, consistently drop the ball near the numbers they wanted—even on a rapidly spinning wheel.
Not with perfect accuracy, of course—but with a significantly increased chance of hitting a target range.
It wasn’t something to dismiss out of hand—there was some credibility to it.
A level of precision where you could partially control probability through sheer sensory skill.
Rydel looked at Yoo Seoyeno again.
If that silver-haired girl had the same level of sensitivity as that “sniper dealer”—or perhaps… even beyond that?
If the dealer was the one placing the ball.
Then Yoo Seoyeno was the one reading the roulette wheel’s subtle characteristics.
Maybe it wasn’t such an impossible thing after all.
“Now that I think about it, I heard there are people who can place the ball precisely on the roulette wheel. It’s supposedly an urban legend from overseas.”
“Oh, I’m not that good,” Yoo Seoyeno waved her hands modestly.
“I mean, this isn’t even a real casino, right? It’s just a streamer server event facility or something.”
Her pale cheeks turned a little pink as she added,“They probably didn’t go all out on anti-cheat systems or anything. I mean, you can hear the differences in sound, after all.”
At her words, Rydel and Argon—who’d been listening blankly—simultaneously rushed over to the roulette wheel.
“Ngh…”
Argon in particular furrowed his brows deeply, putting on a comically serious face.
‘Whrrr… clack… tick… whrrr…’
But all they could hear were ordinary, meaningless mechanical noises.
They couldn’t sense any differences between the slots at all.
“…I’ve got nothing.”
“Same here… Just sounds loud and annoying.”
In the end, both of them gave up and shook their heads.
And just then.
Whrrrr—CHUNK!
The spinning roulette, running on inertia, suddenly made an unnatural noise and came to a halt.
At the same time, a system notice message appeared across the underground room.
[【EMERGENCY NOTICE】 Due to internal system maintenance, underground casino operations will be temporarily suspended. We apologize for the inconvenience.]
Ding!
Along with the sound effect, the roulette’s lights went out instantly.
The machine that had just spat out 1.5 billion gold transformed into a cold, lifeless hunk of scrap.
An emergency intervention by the admins.
The reason?
Pretty obvious.
“…Ah.”
Argon smacked his lips with a hollow expression.
He could’ve just copied that silver-haired girl’s bets and watched his money multiply.
“Well, I wasn’t planning to win any more anyway,”
Yoo Seoyeno shrugged casually.
Even 1.5 billion gold was more than enough to shake up the entire server.
She hadn’t intended to keep multiplying it through gambling.
“Well then, shall we get going?”
The real reason they’d come here in the first place…Was to earn funds for the Ancient Power Core.
Now it was time to complete that quest.