Chapter 14: Prelude

"Be careful, don't knock over the barrel!" The steward of the manor shouted at the slaves in charge of miscellaneous labor, telling them to pile the food and barrels directly in the aisles of the gladiators' quarters.

Tomorrow is the Fiblum Festival in Rome, and several gladiator schools in Pompeii will send a large number of gladiators to participate in gladiatorial competitions in the arena, which has been a practice over the years. In gladiatorial competitions such a major festival, a large number of gladiators die, and it is a must to give the gladiators a proper relaxation with food, spirits, and prostitutes before the gladiatorial fight.

Since tomorrow was Fiblum Day, today Neos only gave the gladiators some simple training in the morning, and from noon onwards they were allowed to move freely in their lodgings and training grounds.

In the afternoon, wagons loaded with food and wine barrels come in and out of the Bardax Manor, and all of this food and wine will be distributed to the gladiators who will participate in the gladiatorial fight tomorrow in the evening, so they are stacked directly on the aisle of the gladiators' residence. At the same time, the steward of the manor would bring a group of prostitutes from Pompeii for the gladiators to relax and vent their excess energy before the battle.

These prostitutes will only stay on the estate for a few hours, and before curfew, they must leave the estate, and they will not spend the night in the estate. In this way, the gladiators could relax their minds and not waste too much energy on the prostitutes and affect their physical strength the next day.

Xu Mo and Max had been staying in a corner of the training ground, carefully observing each barrel and sack stacked on the aisle, and from time to time their eyes would light up, silently noting down where a certain barrel or sack was stacked. It was not until near evening, when no more wagons loaded with food and wine barrels entered the Bardax Manor, that Shi Shiran left.

However, they soon returned to the aisle where food and barrels were piled up, and this time they were no longer two people. They were followed by another reincarnation named Herrington, as well as Eumes, Chisonis, and several other Spartan gladiators.

This group of people arrogantly picked and chose among all the food and wine barrels, and carried the food and wine barrels they liked directly ahead of time. The gladiators of other races could only shrug their shoulders helplessly when they saw this behavior of the Spartans.

The members of the Spartan Regiment were originally professional soldiers, not only very united, but also very disciplined and combative, and the top combat strength was not lost to the two champion gladiators, and the team battle was even more invincible. Not to mention a gladiator school in Bardax, even Pompeii can't find a gladiator team that can compete with them in team battles.

The gladiators all advocate force, and since they can't beat it, they can only let people pick it first, not to mention that these foods and wines are basically the same, no matter how you choose, you can't pick a flower.

The three reincarnators, plus a gang of Spartans, moved these things to the area where the Spartan gladiators were concentrated, and distributed them to all the Spartan gladiators. The giant man Omes split the barrel in front of him with a palm in his room, and strangely enough, there was not a drop of wine in the barrel, but a pile of withered yellow wheat stalks. Omus groped his way through the straw and drew several short swords wrapped in sackcloth.

Omes excitedly wiped the grease on the short sword, turned his head to Xu Mo and asked, "I didn't expect that among your group of slaves, the three slave companions who escaped really had a way to get such a good weapon, but how did you get in touch?" ”

"Among the slaves who were sold to Bardax with us, there were three female handymen who often went to the market in Pompeii to buy goods, so they naturally got in touch with their companions hidden in the city." Xu Mo said with a smile.

"Dang!" Chisionis flicked his dagger and turned back and said, "Shall we start early, Neos doesn't know why, he hasn't seen anyone since mid-afternoon, and in the evening, if he hasn't shown up, we'll be locked in the room." ”

In Bardax Manor, there are three keys to the gladiator training ground. One is the key to the arsenal, which is only available to the gladiator instructors, the second is the shackles on the gladiator's body and the door to the cell, which the instructor and the guards have, and the last key is the key to the barred door between the gladiator training ground and the manor, which is only available to Bardachus and the minor leaders of the guards.

The gladiators wanted to succeed in their uprising, and all three keys were indispensable, and in their original plan, the first two keys in Neos's hands solved most of the problems, and the last key could be obtained by snatching the guards.

This is why Bardax heard that the gladiators were gathering in twos and threes at night, and he immediately realized that Neos had betrayed him. Because only Neos, who was a gladiator, could help the gladiators in their uprising, and the other gladiator instructors did not have the need to do so, nor could they hide it from the chief instructor Neos.

"It doesn't matter, I'll take care of the key, it's still too lively in the manor now, if you start it immediately, Bardacus can immediately send someone to inform the city defense army of Pompeii, we won't have much time to escape, and we will have to fight the city defense army." Xu Mo's eyes flashed and he said softly.

"Well, Arres is right, by midnight, the people in the manor are basically asleep, and even if a few people escape to Pompeii, it will take more time for the city defense army to move, and the darkness of the night will make it more difficult for them to pursue." Eumes nodded and agreed.

Xu Mo's layout for the Spartan world has begun since the King of Fighters world. Max and Serna were initially right about Xu Mo's decision to let them organize large teams.

The most fundamental purpose of Xu Mo for them to organize a large team is to use the other six reincarnators as outcasts, so he will ask Max and Serna to only collect reincarnators with strength bodies as their main attributes, and not reincarnators with intelligence and spiritual expertise, so that these outcasts can buy more time when they are broken.

After entering this Spartan world, Xu Mo quickly perceived the complex situation of the Spartan world, and at the same time realized that they had a trump card in the team. This trump card is Dinah's natural ability, the true mind, and it is also the basis for Xu Mo to implement all plans.

Dinah's ability turned many of Xu Mo's conjectures into real information, although this kind of information was only limited to Bardax Manor, but it was enough for Xu Mo to lay out a perfect plan to push the entire uprising to a successful path.

When arranging the plan, Xu Mo did not take Nyos's key into account. Before Artemis' accident, Xu Mo had already asked Dinah to investigate several of the main leaders of the gladiators.

Although it wasn't until after Artemis' death that Xu Mo discovered a mole, and this mole was not one of Cabal, Lagerseus and Neos, his suspicion of these three people has never stopped, among them, Neos is the biggest suspect.

Therefore, Xu Mo's plan for an uprising was known only to the members of the Spartan Regiment, and not to all other gladiators. They changed the time of the uprising, not Fiblum Day, but the night before Fiblum Day, the Spartan regiment would revolt ahead of time without informing any gladiators.

In fact, notifying other gladiators and notifying them, in the current situation, makes no difference. Although the gladiators in Bardachus did not have a common leader, Artemis, they had already completed the preparations for the uprising. This preparation is not a weapon, not a key to a prison door, but a psychological preparation for an uprising.

Suffice it to say, as soon as someone took the lead in handing them weapons and opening the prison doors, then the gladiators would spontaneously kill the guards and rush out of the Bardax manor. As for whether to scatter and flee after escaping the manor, or to defect to Spartacus, who revolted on Mount Vesuvius, after being freed, they had time to consider.

In terms of weapons, Xu Mo was solved by the three reincarnators who escaped, and as for the key to release the shackles, he also had the help of Dinah's three female reincarnators. Although these three reincarnators are women, they are also the elites who have been selected to enter this world through space, and with the cooperation of the three of them, it is not difficult to take down a few lone guards.

The rest of the work was left to the Spartan regiment, which had the strongest combat effectiveness and the highest cohesion. Artemis is indeed dead, but his soul is still there, and that is the Spartan Regiment.

No one in the Spartan Regiment could have the influence of Artemis among the other gladiators, but the Spartan Regiment as a whole surpassed the influence of Artemis. As soon as the other gladiators saw the Spartan regiment in the overall uprising, they would not hesitate to join the uprising, and a day before the uprising was not a problem in the slightest.

This is Xu Mo's plan of uprising, avoiding all the other gladiators, and at the same time avoiding all the moles, relying only on the "soul of Artemis" of the Spartan regiment.