Neo was not a brother to Alimana, having been captured by Archduke Autri ten years earlier, thrown into the gladiatorial arena, and trained to become gladiators.

The story between the two is very simple and pure, nothing more than fighting each other at the beginning, and then getting to know each other and sharing weal and woe.

But how much blood and sand are buried, how much sweat and tears are shed behind this simple description, how can it be explained in a few words.

"The fate of gladiators is to die on the battlefield, this is your glory and belonging." This sentence, ever since Alimana became a gladiator, the trainers of the Grand Duke's Mansion have been repeating it to them, countless times a day, and it has been engraved on the bones and imprinted in the mind, so profound that all black slaves, including Alimana, fully agree with it.

If Neo had died in a battle with another gladiator, Alimana would not have grieved and would have been proud of Neo, who had proved his glory and had a place to rest.

Alimana was a qualified gladiator and a gladiator who was accustomed to life and death, and only such a person could become a champion.

However, when Neo died at his own hands, killed by his "brother" himself, Alimana felt for the first time what a terrible thing it was for life to pass.

What was the glory of a gladiator after his death? The excitement and cheers of the Grand Duke? The death of the brother was only exchanged for a sentence of "That's it, my champion!" ”

And then what's more?

Nothing, after one cheer, what awaits the champion is the next cheer, the next cheer, and every cheer means that he is going to take a life, and he has to fight forever until he is exhausted one day and becomes the object of cheering.

But does Alimana have a choice about all this? No, in front of the Grand Duke, no matter how many victories he has achieved, even if he is a champion, even if he is a god of the gladiatorial arena, he will always be a slave.

For Alimana, he has no special goal in life, just to live, to live a little longer, because he knows that only by constantly winning can he let his wife Asha live a little longer, and that is the whole goal of his life, nothing more.

But could that be a reason for him to kill his brother? Can it be a consolation to exonerate oneself? Alimana doesn't know, really doesn't know...

"Want to get away from it all?" Just as Alimana suppressed her cry and sobbed secretly, without warning, a mysterious voice sounded next to her.

It was a solitary cell, and Alimana was sure that he had closed the door before he returned, and that even if someone came in, there would be a sound of the lock being opened, but the sound appeared without warning, and he trembled and said incoherently, "Oh my God..."

In the dark shadows, the ghostly blood pupils were like gems inlaid with sharp blades, looming, emitting a strange light, and under the touch of scarlet high heels and the ground, the noble vampire queen walked out of the dark shadow, came to Alimana, and repeated the words: "Do you want to get rid of all this?" ”

Before Alimana could shake off the shock, he said in a panic, "Oh my God, woman, you shouldn't have come here, if you were found by the Grand Guard, you would be skinned and cramped." ”

Cecia crossed her arms, her slender fingers darling over her bloodless skin, and quipped, "Will it?" I'm not dark-skinned, and I don't get skinned and cramped because I went to the wrong place. ”

This sentence silenced Alimana for a long time, he raised his head, calmed down a little emotionally, and asked in a low voice, "Who are you?" Where did it come from? ”

"That's not the question you should ask." Sethea's chin was slightly raised, and a pair of bloody pupils looked directly into Alimana's eyes, and she said in a magnetic voice, "I'll give you a chance to get out of the current situation." ”

Alimana shook his head, pointed to the door of the cell and said, "I'm fine, thank you, please leave, or I'll call the Grand Guard, or do it myself." ”

In the blink of an eye, Cethia's slender body disintegrated in an instant, turning into a scarlet mist of blood, twisting and twisting in the air, and finally floating behind Alimana to reorganize into a human form.

"Oh my... Devil, you are the devil..."People who live in seclusion tend to be superstitious, and Alimana is no exception, and at the sight of this power beyond common sense, he immediately shrinks into a ball, closes his eyes and begins to recite the Bible.

Sercia stood behind Alimana and said lightly, "Tell me why you are willing to fight for Archduke Oteri. ”

Alimana, with his eyes still closed, kept scratching the cross on his chest, and said in a trembling voice, "For my wife, Asha." ”

"Open your eyes and look at your Asha."

As soon as he heard his wife's name, Alimana subconsciously opened his eyes, but what caught his eyes was Cethia's blood pupils, when he looked directly into the depths of the blood pupils, he only felt that the scarlet color was like ink dripping on paper, spreading rapidly in his vision, occupying every corner, and then twisting and entwining, forming a vivid picture.

In the illusion of the vampire blood pupil, Alimana sees a scene where Asha is locked up in a pen with several other black slave girls, and several male dogs in heat are lying on them doing dirty things.

"Nope! Get out of my eyes! No!!! Like a barrel of dynamite that had been detonated, Alimana kept rubbing his eyes, trying to expel the illusion, but even when he closed his eyes, the illusions of the Bloodlines still eroded the retina, making him keep looking at the image.

"No !!!" Alimana was halfway through her roar, when she suddenly felt all the sounds disappear, and it was a little frighteningly quiet.

Alimana opened his eyes again, the illusion was gone, he clutched his throat, his mouth opened and closed in shock, he could feel his vocal cords vibrating, but he couldn't make any sound, and there was a dead silence around him.

In the Bloodline's "Silent Realm", only Cethia's voice sounded: "That picture just now is not a hallucination, it is a scene I saw, and I relayed it to you." Now, don't yell, you can talk. ”

Just as the all-knowing and all-powerful God said, "Let there be light," there is light in the world.

Now, after Cethia said, "You can speak," Arimana's voice returned, and he looked at Cethia with a dull look in his eyes, and said in a trembling voice, "Are you a god..."

A strange smile appeared on Sethea's face, and she said faintly, "I am its enemy. ”

"It's impossible," Alimana said as he came back to his senses, slamming his head against the wall, grimacing in pain, and hissing, "impossible... I'm a champion, and my wife shouldn't be treated like this. ”

"Look me in the eye." Perhaps shocked by the various powers that had preceded him, this time, Alimana honestly turned around and looked at Cethia's blood pupils.

Immediately after that, another image appeared.

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