Although Makruz was now shocked and angry, he had no ability to stop the blind people in the stands, and he did not dare to stand up and interfere with Commodus's decision, so he could only sit in the stands and blow his beard and stare at him.

He can only hope that Commodus will be more fair and will take into account his loss, after all, he still has the ownership of Zhang Heng at the moment, and he only borrowed the gladiators under his command to perform in the Flavi Arena, although the organizer of the gladiatorial performance has the right to decide the life and death of the gladiators and whether to give the gladiators freedom, but after doing so, they will compensate the school behind the gladiators.

The question is how should Zhang Heng price it now?

In the eyes of Makrus, the current Zhang Heng is simply priceless, he is after Sisnatus, no, he is the strongest gladiator in the entire history of Rome, how much is this worth?

But the problem is that this is just his opinion, and generally this kind of compensation standard is determined according to the price of the gladiator when it is purchased and also refers to the performance years of the lower gladiator, and Zhang Heng has very few of these two items.

According to Gabi, it cost an average price to buy Zhang Heng, this is because the other party has an Oriental identity, and the performance years are even worse, Zhang Heng's speed is too fast, almost overnight from a nobody to a household name, according to this standard, even if Commodus is kind, let Zhang Heng go, just pay him a few thousand Sesters, and it will be over.

But this time Makrus is simply losing to his grandmother's family, even if it is conservatively estimated, Zhang Heng can bring more than 30,000 gold coins to the arena in a year, even if he only works for three years, it is 90,000 gold coins, and such a large sum of money is only a few thousand copper coins left, which is simply cutting Makrus's meat.

So Makruz was now the most nervous man in the entire Flavi Amphitheater, but that little extravagance in his heart was shattered with Commodus's next move.

The young emperor held this gladiatorial performance to win the hearts of the people, how could he go against the voice of the people, and Commodus himself was also worried about how to take Zhang Heng away from Makrus, it is rare to have such a good opportunity now, as long as Zhang Heng becomes a free man, he can naturally take this Oriental into his own pocket in the name of it.

Of course, if he made a gladiator his cronies, he would definitely cause protests and dissatisfaction from the old antiques in the Senate, but this was not the first time he had done such a ridiculous thing, and his two current advisers were not from good backgrounds, and he recruited new people to fight against those old guys and old forces.

The empire is like an old man in his twilight years, in need of fresh blood to rejuvenate it.

Commodus had always believed in this, so he didn't care at all about the mood of the poor master of the gladiator school.

The young emperor took the training sword that symbolized freedom from the hands of his entourage and threw it in front of Zhang Heng, while announcing in a loud voice, "This is what you earned for yourself. ”

His actions also sparked a new round of cheers, and the people seemed to be rejoicing that their voices were taken seriously, and the empire ushered in a good emperor who loved his people like a son.

However, this good emperor who loved the people like a son only used one sentence to make Makruz faint, and when he opened his eyes again, Zhang Heng had already picked up the wooden sword.

This also means that the latter has been freed and has nothing to do with the Victor Arena from now on.

So Makruz, who had just opened his eyes, fainted again.

Obviously, he was the biggest winner of this gladiatorial performance one second, looking forward to the new future of the Victor Arena with great ambition, but the next second he fell from the clouds, and in the blink of an eye, he became the biggest loser.

Even if Satonilos and the others, who were sparse for some reason, most of them survived, and their reputation would definitely be seriously damaged after this battle, but it was not without a way to repair it, not to mention that the mountain that pressed on their heads was gone, and they still had a chance to regain the throne in the future. And Makruz's side is miserable, winning the performer but gone.

There are no more ups and downs in life than this.

Perhaps the only thing that can comfort him is that the Germanic Bach performed well in this gladiatorial performance, and his performance was stable, second only to Zhang Heng and Telephilos, but how could a Bach compare to Zhang Heng's popularity.

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Zhang Heng was also a little surprised when he picked up the wooden sword, because he also knew the rules of the arena, and there were almost no gladiators like him who were freed after only a few games, because for the beloved gladiators, the audience would also want to watch a few more of their performances.

And the timing of the call for his freedom is also clever. While everyone was discussing what to give him, the weight of the rewards increased, and the crowd fell into a state of frenzy, and at that moment the most valuable freedom was thrown out.

So the crowd also subconsciously shouted along, in other words, this was actually a premeditated guide and use of public opinion.

The question is who is the person behind this, Zhang Heng looked at Commodus first, of course he knew that Commodus wanted to pull him into his team, which was also what Zhang Heng had been deliberately guiding Commodus to do, so he was undoubtedly a beneficiary of this matter, but through the previous relationship, Zhang Heng's understanding of the young emperor was also deepening, and Commodus's rank should not have reached such a high level.

This thing is done very cleverly, it can almost be said that there is no trace of leakage, and the planners behind it have quite superb political skills, and they are good at borrowing power to make a thousand pounds.

Such a person should obviously not be a political newcomer like Commodus.

Zhang Heng thought about it, the only more likely thing is probably the political force behind the Balance Blade, according to the agreement between the two parties, Zhang Heng helped the Balance Blade to do things, and the Balance Blade also had to ensure his freedom in the end, although it was after the matter was completed, but it was not ruled out that the Balance Blade saw the current opportunity and paid part of the remuneration in advance, which also made it easier for him to get closer to Commodus.

If this is really the case, I am afraid it also confirms some of Zhang Heng's previous conjectures, the Blade of Balance is not as pure as it claims, it is to maintain the balance of the world, but a tool in the hands of a certain political force, but the members of the organization do not realize this, or some members like the old Persian trainer do not realize this, thinking that this political force is their help, but they don't know that the service relationship between the two sides is actually reversed.

In addition, Zhang Heng also received two system prompts that he had not seen for a long time. One of them is a 100-point in-game point reward for winning a gladiatorial show, and a 50-point in-game point reward for reinstatement of libero.