Ares's room was small, the old stone walls were mottled and full of damp and discoloration, and the arena seemed to be older than the Summoning Academy, so the room looked even more dilapidated.

With a few pieces of old furniture and a few clothes and food piled up on the table, Ares was recuperating in his bed, and a few badges of honor representing his career hung neatly beside his bedside. Seeing Alysa and Givens enter the door, he was about to get out of bed with his clothes on, but Adelia quickly motioned for Ares to lie down, and then used healing techniques to restore the pain in his body.

While Adelia was busy casting spells, Ares, who had been lying flat, looked boredly at the dilapidated ceiling and chatted with Given.

"Are you here today for what happened yesterday?"

Given, not knowing what to say to Ares, shook his head quietly. Seeing Given's reaction, Ares sighed. But at this time, Adelia hurriedly replied: "But we have good news." ”

"What's the good news going to be in this time of?"

Adelia, who was being treated, glanced back at Jiwen, then blinked, and deliberately sold Guanzi: "Don't you want to have the crystal disk again?"

"Don't make me amused, you're not craftsmen. Ares seemed to take the news as a joke

"In a few days, you'll know if we're joking. Isn't it, Given?"

Hearing Adelia's answer, Ares turned his head and stared at Given, who had no choice but to answer.

"If you're lucky, we'll be able to help you get a working crystal disk. ”

Ares, who has been dealing with all kinds of people for many years, can certainly hear the meaning behind this sentence, and can also guess the relationship behind this crystal disk. He smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Adelia, you're getting more and more capable, and that's something I can't do. ”

Hearing Ares's compliment, Adelia's face was slightly smug, and she was glad that no matter how bad the situation was, relying on Jiwen, she could always find a solution to the difficulty.

After hearing the news of the crystal disk, Ares stopped mentioning the gladiatorial fight, and he became in a good mood, constantly joking about Jiwen and Adelia.

While the people in the room were talking and laughing, another person pushed the door and walked in.

Adelia's former captain, Ares' friend, and Sheriff Quinn, also squeezed into the small room. He looked at the mottled walls and ancient furniture and immediately frowned.

"Ares, why did you find such a bad place? ”

"No way, I'm not like you, I can find a big family daughter as a partner. Ares laughed a little maliciously. "Besides, it is not easy to find a place to take in the people who are hated by the first and second largest families in the city at the same time. ”

Ares, who is bold by nature, has all kinds of friends in the city, but he has always been alone in his private life and has never had any savings. When he was a sheriff, it wasn't too much of a problem, he could live in the accommodation provided by the city hall, but now that Ares has been fired by the sheriff, naturally there is no place to live.

Quinn ignored Ares' joke and just complained casually. "I've always advised you to save some money and set up a home, but you never take it seriously. Well, now you've finally tasted the downfall. ”

"Hmph, it's too troublesome. Ares scoffed at his old friend's accusations, "Then you might as well kill me." ”

Quinn shook his head, he had tried to persuade him many times, but the result was the same every time. So Quinn walked over to the table, pulled out a small heavy money bag from his armor, and threw it on the table.

"Rent a nice place to live next to the arena, it's good for you. ”

If it weren't for his partner and children, Quinn had originally planned to let Ares live in his house temporarily, so he planned to rent a room for Ares temporarily.

But Ares replied, "Quinn, do you know that you are the thirty-seventh person who left a purse here to persuade me to change my place?" ”

"Then why haven't you moved out yet?"

"All the money I used before was used as a bet to fight. Ares shrugged.

Gambling on gladiatorial fights is a popular activity of the lower elves, and every time before the gladiatorial fight in the arena begins, there is always a special person in charge to register the spectators to press the winning side in the center and collect the bet amount. When he heard that Ares had wasted a large sum of money on such activities, Quinn's face was full of rage, and his eyes were about to burst into flames.

Ares hurriedly persuaded his old friend: "Don't get so excited, old man, this is more complicated than you think. Immediately after that, Ares explained his thoughts to Adelia and Given: "I came to you for the same thing. ”

Quinn, Adelea, and Givens all fell silent for a moment, listening carefully to Ares' explanation.

"Actually, this arena has been challenged, and I'm now a partner in this arena, and I have to fight for this arena!"

In the civilian quarters of every elven city, there will always be one or two arenas for ordinary elven civilians to enjoy. But there is another group of people in the kingdom of Solland. They specially brought summoned beasts to various arenas to challenge, and held up to five challenge gladiatorial battles. When you lose in the arena, you have to pay a huge amount of money to these guys who succeed in the challenge. And whenever there is such a challenge gladiatorial fight, the arena must also hold a game about the challenge gladiatorial fight. Sometimes, the arena will lose money in the gambling game because of the failure of the gladiatorial fight, and will be saddled with a large amount of debt, and even have to sell the ownership of the arena.

The arena where Ares is now located was challenged by a summoner from the Southern Arena a few days ago, and in the course of this gladiatorial fight, the mysterious summoner even participated in off-court gambling and invested a lot of money.

Countless elves in Sodimar are crazy about that bet, and if Ares' arena wins, each elf will make a fortune. But no one expected that the gladiatorial group from the south would win three more games in a row, and if they won two more games, the challenger would win a complete victory, win the huge amount of gambling money, and ask for an expensive victory reward.

As soon as Ares's words fell, Given's eyes exchanged glances with Adelia, and the timing of this challenge gladiatorial fight was a little too coincidental, which made people wonder if it was the old woman of the Freddie family who was arranging a conspiracy.

At this moment, there seemed to be another earth-shattering commotion in the arena. Ares' face darkened a little more when he heard the voice, and he proposed, "If I say it alone, you can't understand this complicated situation, so I'll take you up to see it." ”

Ares sat up, got out of bed, got dressed, and led Gilvin and his party to the viewing area of the arena.

Given's party followed Ares through a winding corridor and through multiple gates before finally reaching the very top of the gladiatorial arena's viewing area.

The moment he stepped out of the gate, a crowded arena appeared in front of Jiwen's eyes. It is a stone building that closely resembles a stadium from memory, with a circular gladiatorial arena in the center and stone steps arranged in cascades around it. Although the gladiatorial arena is full of traces left by the passage of time, it is still lively at the moment. The stone steps were filled with elves dressed in various colors, some excited, some lamenting, but whoever they were, their eyes were fixed on the center of the arena.

In the circular field, a gray giant ape and his summoner were standing in the center of the circle, while his opponent, an elderly summoner, had lost the game and was turning away with a look of shame.

Looking at this terrible picture, Ares muttered, "Oops, that guy named Rutgers has won the fourth game." ”

The summoner who won was not tall, and his clothes were embroidered with only four ochre yellow lines, but there was an extremely sinister look in his emaciated face and eyes.

The summoner, named Rutgers, paid no attention to the strange spectators at the top of the stands, and his attention was focused on one end of the arena, a platform carved in relief, where stood a huge scale, and at the ends of the scales were a large number of rattan baskets filled with precious metals and coins.

With one more win, the challenger from the South will receive the huge bet in the scales, as well as a challenge prize from the arena.

But Rutgers wasn't satisfied, and in his opinion, there weren't enough bettors betting on his enemies, and the hills of gold would have to be a little higher to match all the hard work he had put in. What's more, the commission from the mysterious old woman was not something he could do just by winning.

So Rutgers got into action, he wanted to stimulate the emotions of these Sodima City elves, so that they could start betting and rewarding their enemies again for the sake of honor or face. In that case, the owner of this arena will bear the hope and pressure of everyone, and will have to send summoned beasts to stand in the arena again.

If they fail again, everyone's anger at the loss of money will be directed into the arena. How are the owners of the arena going to deal with these crazy gamblers? It must be a very interesting picture.

Finally, all of Rutgers' ideas came together in one sentence. He pointed to the elves in the stands around him and shouted wantonly, "Listen, you Sodima. I'm ashamed of your cowardice!"