Chapter 25: The Colosseum

The Colosseum, located to the west of the Palace of Savoy, is the tallest building in Solong and the only one that surpasses the palace. In order to show their courage and strength, the Sava people built it by the whole clan over a period of ten years, and it has a history of more than 600 years. Judging from the imposing appearance of the Colosseum and the construction period that lasted ten years, it was in the hearts of the Savoyard people who had a place far beyond the royal palace. Because even in the royal palace, there are no such magnificent decorative sculptures.

The almost circular hexagonal diamond-shaped building is made of equally solid boulder masonry from the inside to the outside, and has stepped seating for about 100,000 people. Unlike other buildings, when all the gates of the Colosseum are closed, there are no windows or crevices in the walls that can be infiltrated into them. Unless you have wings that can leap over the towering walls and swoop straight over the roofless Colosseum, you really don't see any other way to break into it with the gates closed.

The only way to enter and exit the six-sided diamond-shaped Colosseum is the six gates embedded in the heavy stone walls. Each gate of the Colosseum, carved from a complete boulder, is very large and heavy. Moreover, these six doors are not opened from the inside to the outside or from the outside in, in a push-and-push manner. They are embedded in the slides within the high walls, which are opened and closed by sliding upwards or downwards.

Since the various beasts locked in the Colosseum are the largest and most ferocious beasts in the Western Continent, this is not only the most lively place in Suolong City, but also the most dangerous place. The traps used to open the gates are located on the outer walls, and each time a gate is opened, it takes at least twenty strong soldiers to operate the traps at the same time.

The appearance of these six gates is the same, there is no primary or secondary, and on the left and right sides of each gate, there is a huge stone sculpture. The carved image is of a Savoyard warrior, with a brave demeanor, dressed in a battle uniform, with a male on the left and a female on the right, of comparable height. Each of them had a lasso around his waist, a small dagger attached to his boot, and each of them carried a spear and a long knife in each of their hands. The two most commonly used long weapons of the Savoyard were placed on top of each other, as if guarding the gates of the Colosseum and preparing to fight the beasts. The gate, which required the combined efforts of twenty strong warriors to open, was located in the wall behind the two giant statues next to the door.

In the early days of the Colosseum, it took a full 200 strong warriors to move slowly. Therefore, if you don't need to use the mechanism now, of course, you will have to use the equivalent of 200 warriors to successfully lift one of the gates. However, if it is only lifted by manpower, there must be something unusually strong, resting under the open stone door and holding it all the time, otherwise, the stone door without control will automatically slide down, which is very dangerous.

The priests and west-ryu, who had arrived at the Colosseum at dawn, were standing under the towering stone walls, contemplating a way to rescue them. Should we wait until the gates of the Colosseum are opened, and then break into the stadium under the watchful eyes of 100,000 people to save people openly, or do we try to sneak in before the gates open? But in the current situation, no matter which way you choose, you can't avoid a head-on confrontation with the Savoy. For, the moment the sun completely jumps above the horizon, the Savoyard people will come and open the gate on time, and now it is clear that there is not enough time for them to continue standing here and figure out what to do.

"Priest, what should we do now?" asked Xiliu, a little anxiously.

"Get out of here for now, and we'll come back when the Savoie are all in. ”

Seeing that the sky is about to dawn, if they can't find a way to enter the Colosseum before the Sava people arrive, rescue all the trapped tribesmen as quickly as possible, and leave here smoothly, they will be exposed in advance, leading to more incidents and delaying the rescue time. What's more, this Colosseum is very huge, and it is difficult to accurately judge the situation inside from outside the high walls, and it is also not conducive to rescue, so they do not dare to act rashly, for fear of hurting the people trapped in it. The most important thing now is to find a place to hide before the Savoyard finds out.

Once the gates of the Colosseum are opened, they will not close again until the show is over and all the spectators have left. The Savoyard people would never have enclosed themselves in the Colosseum for a whole day with aliens and beasts at the same time, because it was very dangerous, and if something happened, the chaos caused by 100,000 spectators and a considerable number of beasts could be imagined. Therefore, during the performance of the beast, the six gates must always be kept open. If the priest and Xiliu took advantage of the time when the gate was open to save people, no matter how many obstacles they encountered, at least the chaos caused by the 100,000 spectators in the stadium would buy them a lot of time to save people, and the chances of leaving the Colosseum would be relatively greater.

Therefore, the priest finally decided to wait for the beast show to start before breaking in to save people.

The Savoyard people were very fond of boisterousness, and they would cheer loudly at various celebrations, and the cheers in the Colosseum could usually be heard throughout most of the city. Among the 100,000 spectators, there are also a small number of Lai Peilian nobles who came all the way from the Eastern Continent, and those nobles often bring a large amount of wealth to the Western Continent to seek excitement.

The Savoyard people had no sense of condescension or inferiority, and even in the presence of the king, they did not bow their heads and bow their bows, so they did not have any special VIP seats in the Colosseum. However, the nobles of Lepelian despised them, believing that it was precisely because of their lack of hierarchy that they did not pay attention to etiquette, and felt that it was humiliating to be on an equal footing with the rough Savoy in the Colosseum. So the nobles of Lepelian spent a great deal of money and rented the few seats next to them, and surrounded them with curtains, so as to separate themselves from the rough Savoyards. The unruly Savoyard people did not care, but only laughed it off, and turned a blind eye to the five-point contempt, five-part sarcasm that the Lepelians threw at them from time to time, because they could not understand the overly complicated contempt of the Lepelians.

For nearly a decade, with the participation of the Lepelians, coming to the Colosseum is no longer just about watching the beasts fight. Spectators gamble on the beast to win more, and the opposite is true for losing or dying. Ever since gambling began to be popular in the Western Continent, the noise in the Colosseum has often been mixed with cheers and insults. After all, the winners are happy, the losers are worried, and people always need to vent. Just as at this moment, cheers and curses came one after another, deafening.

"Kill him!"

"Let that lose-money inferior die quickly!"

"That bad seed has caused me to lose my wealth for several years, and if it can't die today, I'll buy it back and chop it up myself. ”

"I like the screams of the beasts the most, it's so exciting!"

"Hahaha, it's really worthy of being a 'war beast', it seems that I can make a lot of money again today......"

All kinds of anger and morbid excitement were like a tumbling heat, wave after wave, almost drowning the Colosseum. Many people in the audience couldn't help but jump because the folding telescopic bridge on the artificial lake in the arena was lowered again, and it was the only way to reach the dueling platform in the middle of the lake.

However, the folding telescopic bridge was not the reason for the audience's madness, but the alien who was now being driven from the bridge to the dueling arena by a group of Saviere soldiers! Not only the Demon Wild, but even the Priest of Sylven did not expect that in the Colosseum of the Sava Eva people, there was a tribe that was almost impossible to appear in the Western Continent, and they had no idea about it before. In fact, the Savoyard persecuted the aliens to fight the beasts for pleasure much earlier than they thought it was "not so long ago."

Ten years, he has been listening to such cheers for a whole decade. When he was just a minor child, he was already trapped in this Colosseum, and experienced countless brutal battles, from the initial hesitation to the current immobility. In the past ten years, the only road he has walked is from the cage to the folding telescopic bridge, and then from the bridge to the dueling platform, and then, from the dueling platform through the bridge on the lake, back to the cage again, even the ferocious beast-eating fish in the artificial lake, in these ten years, he knows exactly how many beasts have eaten.

He dragged the two huge and heavy iron balls behind him and calmly passed over the bridge, ignoring the beast-eating fish in the lake that jumped out of the water from time to time, with their mouths open and their teeth bared. To prevent him from tearing off the chains, the outside of the shackles that bound his feet, and the two thick, long chains that connected the large iron balls, were all covered with serrated teeth. You know, the aliens are very powerful, and if they were not covered with sharp iron spikes everywhere, they would have been able to easily tear a rough chain with their bare hands.

Not only that, but the two outer barbed shackles that were locked to his wrists were also attached to two long iron chains that were also full of serrated teeth, but the other end of these two chains was embedded in the wall of the cage. This was specially set up to prevent him from suddenly attacking the audience or trying to escape, and the Savoyard was able to hook the chain in time to pull him back to the cage. The chains were thick and long enough for him to walk from the cage to the dueling platform in the middle of the lake, where he could move around. The chain was too long to straighten, so he couldn't even tear it off.

With his appearance, the bloody atmosphere in the Colosseum suddenly became a little stronger. He stood on the dueling table with a blank face, ignoring the excited gamblers in the audience. The incessant cheers were nothing more than a prelude to another round of torture to him.