Volume 2 The Stars Chapter 44 Civilization and Barbarism
It did happen according to the situation that Muen feared most, and Arnold came to the door that morning to block himself, and Muen always felt that he was too enthusiastic, and in general, there must have been a plan.
"You came to me this morning, could it be that I would run away suddenly? Although Muen really thought so, it was a pity that Arnold did not give him this opportunity at all.
Arnold stretched out his finger and swayed it from side to side, signaling Muen to think too much, and then muttered that he picked up the breakfast bread prepared by the room service and took a bite of it, "Didn't I say that there will be a special event today." ”
Simon had decided that he had fallen in love with the city after all this time in the province of Sakovík, so when he heard about the special event again, he immediately showed great curiosity and leaned over to ask what was so mysterious.
Arnold saw that he wanted to know so much, but he was even more sold, and looked at Mu En with his eyes, as if he wanted to feel curiosity from Mu En's body, but after looking at it for a long time, Mu En gradually showed a puzzled look.
"Why do you keep looking at me, it shouldn't be suitable for me. Mu En frowned.
Arnold: "I'm curious, aren't you curious about something?"
"Tight nesting dolls. Simon teased.
Mu En rolled his eyes, it was really difficult for a person who didn't feel full of sleep every day to have a vigorous experience to show curiosity about something else.
Arnold, who was deflated, looked very frizzy, waved his arms a few times and said forget it, and then pulled Mu En to go out.
"Are your families so shy of physical contact?" Although Mu En did not refuse, it was obvious that he was still very unaccustomed to this kind of behavior.
"It's all right, but who called us good friends?"
“...... No, you're a 'very good friend' too cheap, we haven't met a few times. ”
"It's a lot, it's a lot, and my childhood playmates barely saw each other more than three times, and I didn't have many friends since I was a child. Arnold said with a smile,
Somehow, Mu En suddenly felt that he was a little pitiful, but when he thought about it, he seemed to be even more pitiful. When I was in the Tower, the only friend of the same age might be Prince Naboo, but I often only saw him once every six months.
Thinking of this, he sighed softly, although he still asked the other party to put his hand down, but his tone was much gentler, he patted Arnold lightly and said, "Don't drag it like this, you can lead the way in front, let's walk slowly." ”
"No, I'm up late today, we won't have seats if we don't go there sooner. ”
"Aren't you the guests of the Vic family?"
"The guest here is my great-ancestor and not me, are you willing to be with those old men? Although Vic is sixteen or seventeen years old this year, the way he speaks and thinks about problems seems to be much simpler than that of a child of Muen's imagination, but Muen doesn't think there is anything wrong with this.
Even more mature people may have childish behavior, maybe Arnold is usually a very mature person, but he is just too eager for friends-Mu En said to herself.
Sitting in the carriage, Arnold had already prepared the carriage.
"Don't you have any friends in the academy?" Mu En asked, he suddenly remembered that he didn't seem to be the top seed in the fire courtyard yet, and he couldn't remember whether he was second or third, after all, Mu En was full of thoughts about how to dig a piece of meat out of Mordred, and he didn't know too much about the other opponents.
"Hmm...... I can't say no, but I can feel that a lot of people approach me for not pure purposes, they don't like me, they like my family crest, and then I don't want to associate with those people in school. ”
"The aura on your body is your value, and the sum of your value is you as a person, they may like you because of some aspect of you, but if you can really get along for a long time, it must be that both of you recognize the value of most aspects of each other, or because of a certain part of your body that they love to recognize. Mu En said.
"But the thing they care about the most wasn't created by me, just because of reincarnation? It made me subconsciously think that everyone was like this when I met them later - not you, of course. Arnold seems to have a crush on Muen.
Mu En was a little strange, he didn't seem to have done anything to be recognized.
"Why?" he asked, after thinking for a few minutes, "why do you think I'm not the kind of person who came near you because of who you are?"
"Because the first time I saw you, you had four big words written in your eyes. ”
"What word?"
"Dismissive. ”
Mu En was silent, and secretly vowed in her heart to go back to practice expression management.
"That's not all, you clearly didn't see me when I first saw you that day, to be honest, I saw you glance over here three times, and you turned a blind eye to the fact that our family's clothes are so distinctive, and later because of your servant...... Employees are arguing with me, which is unimaginable to others, they just nod their heads. ”
After hearing these words, Mu En silently held his forehead, feeling that he had a headache, this person seemed to be a little masochistic, and there was a problem.
After that, he basically stopped talking, and most of the time Arnold was looking for topics to talk to, and he seemed to be in a bad mood, but he didn't respond with a match.
It didn't take long for Mu En to feel that the carriage slowly stopped, Arnold opened the curtains and looked at the surrounding scenery and said, "That's right, that's it, it's here, get off." ”
Mu En heard this and opened the door and got out of the car, everyone is a young person, and there is no need and no need for someone to support them, so they jumped down when they opened the door, and Mu En almost misestimated the height of the carriage.
Simon, of course, was with the coachman, and from the driver's expression, it could be seen that Simon had annoyed him enough along the way.
"Where is this?" Mu En looked at this side, because he didn't plan to use that thing to plan his trip without looking at the Kanyu map, so Mu En didn't know much about the province of the Vic family.
"This is the third largest square in the northern part of the empire and the first square open to the outside world, Sarkovík Square, named after the lord of Chengye. Arnold was excited, it was a really huge place, and in the square there was not only the opera house but also the Colosseum, which was second to none in the northern part of the empire. That opera house alone can accommodate tens of thousands of people, not to mention the huge Colosseum, which can even simulate a naval battle.
It is said that the Colosseum floor was used to deal with the rebel captives, and nearly 100,000 rebel captives fought in the Colosseum - certainly not all in one place, of course. In the end, only one survivor could be freed, and the blood stained the yellow soil black, and no one knew how deep it was, because the lord had ordered the earth to be turned over, and it was still the color of the blood after digging ten meters down.
So much so that when it was poured into the water to simulate a naval battle, before the short battle was encountered, the blood was melted and stained by the water, and a thin layer of human oil floated on the surface of the water.
And the only surviving warrior who killed him from beginning to end also died inexplicably the night before he was released, and the reason was announced to be due to overdraft, but there are always conspiracy theorists who say that the lord of Sarkovík is not trustworthy, and he is afraid that the man will come to revenge, so he kills him quickly.
But no matter what the truth is, it has become a story of the old man buried in the yellow sand on the parchment scroll.
Arnold led Muen to the Colosseum, and there was no doubt that today would be another sacrifice of the autumn gods with blood.
It's still very early, many people haven't come over yet, if normally, Mu En wouldn't have come so early, this kind of Colosseum, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people at the same time, should be able to accommodate nearly 100,000 spectators, such a big deal, I don't know what Lord Vic wants to do.
"This big field has been rarely used in recent years, after all, the rent is very expensive, very few that the rich man can rent it, if the attendance rate is less than 50%, it is difficult to recover the cost, now it may only be opened about ten times a year, but most of the people who have the ability to open are confident that they can make money. Arnold introduced Muen as if he were introducing his own things.
"Ten times is not less. Simon sighed, he looked up at this hill-like building, quite Mu En's first time to see the imperial capital city wall, of course, this is still not comparable with the unbelievable high wall of the imperial capital, but it also has a unique spirit.
Because they came early, Mu En and the others bought tickets for very good seats, this huge Colosseum, there are nearly 100 entrances, and after buying tickets, they have to go in and have a good meal.
"The first row, will there be blood splattered all over my face. Mu En looked at the ticket and walked to the Colosseum, and then looked up and was just about to find a seat when he realized that he was very wrong, because the first row of this place was actually a long distance away from the ground of the Colosseum, and the surrounding area was actually made of transparent and hard sacrificial stones after being tempered by magic.
The Holy Sacrifice Stone is already very expensive, and it is even more expensive to fly into the sky when it is tempered into a transparent and light blue color by magic, let alone such a huge Colosseum. This is so that the audience has no dead spots anywhere.
Rao is Mu En also gasped and smacked his tongue secretly.
"Good fellow, that's too rich. Simon's jaw fell to the ground, and the Colosseum had long since disappeared in the central and southern parts of the empire because it was considered too bloody by many, and now there were basically no wreckage left.
Of course, the south is not uncivilized because of this thing, but because they want to live every day as if they are the protagonists of the Colosseum, there are really no idlers to use for pastime, only the rich northern nobles and lords still have these things for recreation.
The water and soil features in the north are very rich, so people can also live and be able to raise, although there have been major wars that will suffer from it, but there will be a long rest after the chaos, the population recovery is very fast, coupled with the existence of the Great Wall and the town tower, basically the chaos to the middle of these frontier provinces will stop.
Unless something from the realm of kings is released.
Therefore, the Shura field in the Colosseum was not a means for the northern lords to train their soldiers, so Mu En guessed a little, and talked to Arnold after finding a seat.
"I guess it's going to be a beast and a sergeant here today, right? And I imagined...... The special beasts in the old Aldan province probably include 'barbarians', 'fears', and 'insects'. The first two can be domesticated and the other is aquatic, so it seems that only the insect in the form of a tiger can be used as the protagonist of the fighting beast, after all, tourists from all walks of life gather together, and they have to show them something special. Muen's analysis was the head, and Arnold's eyes lit up when he heard it.
"Wow! You're such a genius! ”
"It's okay, you don't know that my family beats people, but it's really proficient in everything except falling in love. Simon said beside him.
"Isn't it up to you to make up for the shortcomings? Mu En laughed at herself.
"But," Arnold said, "a saint must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts, and you have missed one of the most obvious." ”
"Oh?" both asked.
"Today is the Autumn Festival, and the most important thing is definitely the festival. ”
"But I remember that the festival is in the afternoon?" In fact, red tape has always been Mu En's shortcoming, most of the things are just hearsay, after all, he is not religious, and if he really doesn't want to go to the festival in the tower, no one will force him.
"That's wrong, the festival presided over by the archbishop of the church begins in the early morning, and the important members go to thank the harvest first, and then the bishop who has fasted for seven days and the priest team sing and dance on the altar to pray for the gods' continued blessings in the coming year, and in the afternoon everyone goes to the altar again to thank the priest for his efforts and pay tribute to the gods, and in the evening is the time to enjoy the harvest of the year. The so-called afternoon festival only started because it was only open to the public at that time. Arnold's head was the truth, which made Mu En feel eye-opening and really troublesome at the same time.
But if you want to come to all the places in the world, there will be the priests of the Sea God Temple dancing in the same direction under the scorching sun at noon today, which must be a very spectacular sight.
It's just that the gods are destined to be the only ones who are destined to admire.
"With all that said, isn't the festival still over there?" asked Simon.
"Our tribute this year is very special, but I can't say it, it's boring to say it, you can see for yourself later. Arnold is also really a good man, he can endure it for so long, just by looking at his expression, you can feel that he is actually ready to move.
But now that he had said that, Mu En leaned back in a chair that wasn't very comfortable and began to take a nap, and for a person in his physical condition, it was very important to seize any time to catch up on sleep.
At the high-level VIP seats of the Colosseum, known as 'The Mountain', guests have already arrived, sitting on soft sofas, eating specially prepared and all-you-can-eat desserts and fruits, drinking aged wine, and waiting for the show to begin.
Although the sub-elves are a relatively gentle race, class is also ubiquitous, which makes them bear more stigma of hypocrisy.
At eight o'clock in the morning, when the sky was really bright, Muen was woken up by Simon, saying that the fight was about to begin, and a man in a beautiful robe floated in the middle of the Colosseum to make sure everyone could see him.
"Magister. Through the obstacle protection array, Mu En still judged his strength just by the signs emanating from that person, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
In the province of Ardan, a magister is a big baby who can't wait to hold his own family, and he even has to 'deign' to be the master of ceremonies here, which is a huge gap between financial resources and strength.
The man's voice drifted through the boisterous voice to the ears of every spectator, and he introduced the first program to all the guests of the day, the beast fight.
The beasts of the fighting beasts are not only the beasts that are special to the old Ardan territory, but the beasts of the whole country and even the entire continent, a total of fifteen species, which are said to be fifteen kinds of crops used to commemorate this year's harvest. It's just that there are still some features, and those beasts are put on the finale. And what Mu En didn't expect was that the three fierce beasts he said, including the aquatic fear of the colosseum, also appeared, Mu En looked at the water injection outlets around the Colosseum without a trace, and the pomp was probably much bigger than he imagined.
What Mu En didn't expect the most was that at the moment when the master of ceremonies finished speaking, dozens of huge faucets began to release water, but the water flow was not particularly rapid, and it might take a long time to fill the water at this speed.
At this moment, two temporary teleportation circles lit up, and the fighter and the beast appeared in the field at the same time, and the crowd made a sound of mountains and tsunamis at this time.
"I really haven't seen this meeting!" Mu En shouted to Simon next to him, even if he could detect that he was screaming loudly, he still felt that he was going to be drowned out by the surrounding sounds, there was no way, these people were screaming like crazy, so the communication basically relied on yelling.
"Me too!" Simon covered one ear and listened several times before he could hear what Muen had said.
"What are you talking about!" Arnold snarled with all his strength covering his ears, "just follow the catharsis!"
Hearing this, Simon immediately stood on his chair and raised his arms, and the cry blended into the carnival of the crowd.
In the Colosseum, the magic warrior who was close to the great magician was entwined with the beast, and the cries in the audience gradually diminished after the initial outburst, but at this moment, the man suddenly found an opportunity to send the blade into the beast's eye, shattering its brain.
Once again, the surroundings became a roaring ocean, and everyone was shouting the name of the gladiator as if he were the greatest hero.
At this time, in the water-filled beast head, the water flow doubled again, gradually forming small puddles at the corners of the gladiatorial arena, and then Mu En could see that the yellow mud and sand gradually turned black and gradually seeped out wisps of red, but they were still undetectable.
How many creatures have died in this narrow land?
Mu En thought so.