Forty-nine days later, the figure of Makruz reappeared on the balcony on the second floor, but this time two slave girls, one Persian and one Parthian, were beside him, and sat in a chair to serve him.

But Makruz didn't seem to be happy, because the attendance of the arena had dropped again in the past two months, and he had to increase the number of appearances of Habitus, which only saved the audience a little, but the greedy Habitus also took the opportunity to ask him for more shares and the promise of training as the school's ace.

On the other hand, Makrus also heard the news from the front, it is said that the new emperor of the empire, Commodus, seems to have no intention of taking over the stall left by his father Aurelius, and is preparing to negotiate peace with those Germans, which is not good news for Makrus, because the source of his gladiators is also a very important part of the prisoners of war, especially high-level gladiators are often selected from prisoners of war, and he is now busy looking for a successor to Sisnatus, and Makruz can only pin his hopes on Bach now.

In addition, according to the custom, when the new emperor ascended the throne, there will be a grand gladiator show, in order to win the hearts of the people, this performance is free, the performance is held in the Flavian amphitheater, the largest arena in the entire Roman Empire, built by the royal family, using 80,000 slaves, it took eight years to build, can accommodate up to 90,000 spectators, considering its age, it has to be said that this arena is a miracle in the history of architecture.

But it is obviously not possible to have an arena without gladiators, who are the highlight of the show.

Although the royal family also has a gladiator school, but the scale is not large, and it is not enough to support a grand performance, which requires several gladiator schools from the people, of course, it is not free, after all, gladiators are notoriously expensive consumables, but because this performance is used to win the hearts of the people, there is no income itself, so this cost has to be borne by the organizers.

And asking for money from the nobles and His Majesty the Emperor is, of course, not as easy as asking for money from the commoners.

If you want less, Makrus will lose a lot, and if you want more, if you offend some big person, or His Majesty the Emperor himself, he won't want to mix in Rome in the future, so under normal circumstances, Makrus will choose a small loss, both selling favors and not shedding too much blood.

Either way, it's a nuisance.

Makrus came to inspect the goods with all these messy troubles and his dissatisfaction with the new Emperor, but he had spent a lot of money on these slaves, and he had to know whether it was worth it himself.

The order of the battle was also drawn by lot, and Gabi began to organize this assessment after saluting Markruz respectfully.

The rules of the battle are similar to the usual gladiator performances, except that they use wooden weapons, and each gladiator can only use one weapon in a one-on-one confrontation, and sneak attacks from behind are despised by the audience, and once one side concedes defeat, the other side can no longer attack, in addition, there will be a trainer who acts as a referee.

After confirming that everyone understood the rules, Gabi began to roll call.

The first pair came to the stage was a free man gladiator, named Griff, his luck was good, the opponent was a young man who had just become a gladiator for half a year, a little younger than him, and the combat experience was not very rich, but the final result was that the young gladiator won, but the two fought for a long time, and it was considered to be back and forth, and finally Griff was caught by the other party and ended the battle.

Gabi commented, "Lack of concentration, it was okay for a while, but the further back you go, the more distractions you have, and the attack is not decisive enough, it is good to be restrained and cautious, but sometimes the situation on the field requires you to make a quick decision, even if it is a wrong decision, it is likely to be better than hesitation." ”

Griff's face looked a little depressed when he heard this, he knew that what Gabby said was the truth, because he was a newcomer, and this was the final assessment that would determine his fate, so he would inevitably think about it a lot, and sometimes he would hesitate to see the other party show his flaws, so he missed a lot of opportunities.

But Gabi may have paused for the sake of being able to fight back and forth with his opponent for so long, and finally spat out those two words, "Qualified." ”

Griff's expression suddenly turned to joy, and Gabby didn't say anything more, just let him stay in the room on the west side.

Griff was followed by a slave named Gallata, and his opponent was a well-known gladiator with three years of combat experience.

As soon as the other party moved, he couldn't help but take a few steps back, and his fearful performance made Gabi frown, but fortunately, Garata quickly realized that his action just now was very detrimental, but then he made a big mistake, in order to make up for the previous poor performance, he actually changed his defensive position and began to attack with carelessness.

His opponent was keenly aware of the flaws in his attack, and he dodged Gelata's attack cleanly, and then put the training sword on the latter's neck, and the whole process did not take much work, and he easily won the battle, and Gailata couldn't help but turn pale.

He looked at Gabi with an almost pleading gaze, but the latter was unmoved, and said in an emotionless voice, "The battle choice is terrible, the rough and aggressive, the ability to adapt on the spot is not as good as a pig, unqualified, the house to the east." ”

"Please give me another chance for the sake of my hard work, I wasn't ready this time, next time, next time I won't make this mistake again," Gaylata pleaded, of course he knew what the east room meant, especially since he wasn't a free man like Griff, and he had to go mining without passing the test.

"But death never gives you a second chance, child." Gabby said coldly, and then he made a look, and two trainers pulled away Gaitara, who had almost collapsed to the ground.

And Makruz on the second floor didn't say a word from beginning to end, and was eating a fig that the slave girl next to him peeled for him.

He didn't have much interest in the previous battles, and he really cared about only Bach because it was now the deadline he had agreed with Gabi before, and he wanted to see how the successor of Sisnat was trained by Gabi, but Bach's battle was arranged very late, and Makruz could only wait patiently.

Gabi spoke again after Garata was dragged down.

"Zhang Heng, Garba, it's your group's turn."