God of Internet [LitRPG]

14 - Card Master

Upon entering his favorite watering hole, Grant was shocked by the scene before him.

Instead of men gathered around tables with dice while they drank and wagered a few pennies, the vast majority of men at that moment were sitting at tables with books in their hands!

To confirm this, Grant even left the pub and looked back at the entrance to make sure he was in the right place, then walked back in and was shocked to see friends of his holding books!

All of their books had black covers with a red heart design, while the outline of the design was delicately drawn with very elegant little patterns, showing just how expensive these books were.

As Grant approached the table where his friends were sitting, he saw one of his friends with a big smile on his face as he looked between the book he was holding and the other four people at the table.

"You're screwed with my hand, I'll bet 5 chips." Eliot said as he rubbed his finger on something in the book and laughed as he looked around at his friends.

And that was what confused Grant the most, because he knew Eliot very well, even to the point of knowing that Eliot couldn't read.

So why was Eliot holding a book?

"Hey guys, where did you get such a flimsy book?" Grant couldn't resist asking after greeting them.

Looking in the direction of the voice, the men looked at the newly arrived Grant and greeted him back.

"Wait until the game is over Grant and I'll explain." One of his friends said as he went back to concentrating on his book.

Hearing this, Grant became even more curious and went to sit next to this friend, wanting to see what was in this book that was making everyone act so strangely, even the illiterate!

When he looked into the book, Grant was shocked to see that there were glowing things inside!

Is this a magic book?! Grant wondered in shock.

Knowing how expensive magic books were, he knew there was no way his friends could afford books like this, but almost everyone in the pub was holding books just like this.

Out of curiosity, Grant walked over to another friend and saw that his friend's book also had shiny things in it, and even more surprisingly, the things in this book were different from the things he saw in the other book!

But they were so focused on this "game" that no one stopped to explain to Grant what was going on.

Until finally Eliot won the other men's chips and the hand was over, allowing them to take a break while they began to explain to Grant what was going on and invited him over to play as well!

Hearing the explanation that this book was actually a divine artifact that the God of the Internet, the God of old Father Robert's church, made available to believers who prayed to him, shocked Grant.

Even more so after his friend showed him all the things he could do on the Internet, which made Grant even more excited to the point that he even prayed and saw the beautiful book floating in front of him.

The friend who invited him got excited when he saw the 10 Internet Coins that had just been added to his account, and quickly deposited 2 more Internet Coins into [CardMasters], adding them to the 7 Coins he had left after losing 3 Coins to Eliot, for a total of 27 Coins in his account.

He hadn't even bought any books after going online, he just directly deposited the Internet Coin he had for checking in today after learning that he would get 2 more Internet Coins for free tomorrow.