Volume 2 Don't Chapter 40 The Opponent (I)
Solar Calendar September 1729 Lozema
Time flies quickly, half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, bidding farewell to August, which has no festival but is very busy, September ushered in the founding day of Pamela, and people's careful preparations throughout August can finally be fully displayed in this month.
It's not as good as a month to play like on New Year's Day, but a whole week of revelry is still enough to look forward to, plus the tax is halved in September, and both the citizens and Modella are happy.
This week, the Colosseum will not be closed like the New Year, but will host a grand gladiatorial tournament, both in the Death Arena and in the Ordinary Arena, and the winner will receive a large prize money, which is also the most competitive week for adventurers participating in the Ordinary Arena.
During this week, free strides will no longer be available in regular arenas, but will be played in the same format as in the Death Arenas, although the restrictions will remain the same. The two teenagers didn't want to participate at first, but were forced by Hopler to participate.
"It's a testament to what you've been training for a year. These are Hopler's exact words.
"But we've never won a game in a year. Isn't it easy to be eliminated if you participate?" Lott had no doubt that this would be the outcome.
"It's only been a year to learn and you want to win against those veterans who have been practicing for decades, Lot, are you a little impatient?" Hopler patted him on the shoulder, and in the past year, the two teenagers seemed to have grown a little taller, and Hopler's hand no longer needed to droop.
"I know, but... It's a game, and it's a bit embarrassing to know that you're going to lose. Rod thought so, too.
"What's the shame, haven't you all lost for a year, are you still afraid of this time?" Saiya walked between the two of them and stretched her head over, after half a year of contact, their relationship was already very harmonious, her hood was dropped by the heads of the two teenagers, "Hey, don't do this." "Saiya usually wears a hood now, and she only takes it off when she is in the room, and she hurriedly stepped back and tidied it up.
"Saiya is right, and this is a rare match for their veterans to use their full strength, usually they are careless to you, looking at their full strength will also help you, even if you are eliminated, you will have to play at least three games, and you will not suffer. ”
"Since you both say so. Rod held up his two hands, "Come on, we're going to have a lot of beatings now." So the two returned to the gladiatorial arena as participants in the tournament.
Compared to the deathmatch arena to attract civilians, the ordinary arena here is more attractive to masters, because most adventurers feel that deathmatch is too barbaric and rude, as they have to fight monsters at any time, it is a waste to get injured for the sake of competition. The strict rules of the game and the etiquette of the point to the point in the ordinary field not only show yourself, but also be safe, and you can take the next task directly at Lozema after the fight. But most of the civilians will feel that those who dare not come to the death match are cowards, which is also the difference in perception between civilians and adventurers in general.
Every year, many people come from other places to participate in this ordinary gladiatorial tournament, not for the prize money but to increase fame, the ranking of the adventurer's guild is certainly useful, but it is the result of long-term accumulation, and many masters are not adventurers, a gladiatorial tournament can be said to be very cost-effective. Therefore, the number of people participating in ordinary gladiatorial battles is very large every year, and several batches of auditions are held two days before the official competition. However, as a regular gladiatorial participant, you are eligible to skip the audition and go directly to the official competition. The teenagers come here almost every day of the year, so they directly qualify for the official competition, and if they participate in the audition, the teenagers feel that they have probably been eliminated.
In the past two days, Hopler did not increase the amount of training, but sorted out several impressive gladiatorial competitions they had seen in the past year, and then dismantled the moves, analyzed the ideas, and practiced the battle, although they couldn't teach them directly, but it was okay to show the coping methods and ideas as much as possible through the battle, although this was also a bit of a sideline, but under the influence of Saiya, Hopler didn't care so much.
Saiya taught really directly, from ideas to combat skills, she often pulled the two teenagers into the room with Hopler on her back, in fact, she didn't teach them the things of thieves, just the basic skills of martial arts, but because she also learned it from the guild, it is prohibited in principle.
The basic training intensity of the perverts, the guidance of the clever teacher, and the almost constant confrontation practice allowed them to barely fight those old adventurers for five or six rounds, although they still couldn't win.
The day of the competition came as scheduled, and the teenagers walked into the gladiatorial arena with their wooden swords in hand as usual.
Because it is an official competition, it is relatively formal. The original practice gladiatorial fight is a big field, not stipulating the scope of activity of each person, people who are interested in going in to find their opponents to see which side is empty and practice directly there, judging that they fail or more than an hour on their own initiative to rest, and after a while they want to practice and then play, the teenagers are generally the first person to enter the field after they come in to practice or who takes the initiative to invite them.
Now the big field is not the same as then, it is divided into four parts, so that the four games are played at the same time. Because the upper limit of four pairs of people is limited, their range of movement is somewhat greater than when they were free.
The cheers and applause did not stop as soon as the teenagers entered the arena, and the auditorium, which had been sparse during the free gladiatorial fight, was now full, and many unfamiliar faces were sitting there, most of those unfamiliar faces looked at the other three, and those familiar faces who used to practice together all applauded at the two teenagers. Hopler and Saiya also sat closer to the playing field of the two of them and watched them, and it was rare that Saiya did not wear a hood this time. Lott blushed when she saw Saiya's smile.
Their opponent also appeared at this time, a tall man, holding a one-handed sword in one hand and a huge shield in the other.
"Is that a knight?" the crowd began to chatter.
"What, how can a knight wear that kind of clothes, it should be a free man without a guild, a coward with a shield. ”
"Hahahaha"
"Look at the insignia on his clothes. ”
"Dragon's Tooth!haha!!"
Then the crowd began to boo the man en masse, except for knights, ordinary people will be discriminated against when they take shields, because except for the church, other guilds or free schools do not teach the technique of holding shields, and these free people with shields can only pick up shields out of timidity.
Then a group of people in the audience stood up, more than a quarter of the audience, "Do you have any opinion on our Dragon's Fang?" and the speaker took a giant axe and swung it twice.
"How?!" The adventurer was not one to be frightened, and a few unconvinced people immediately stood up, seeing that the situation was about to escalate.
"Even though this is a suburb, it's still Pamela's territory, everyone, calm down. The woman's voice came from a distance, and a group of sparrows rushed over to stop the conflict that was about to break out, this kind of conflict is very easy to occur in this period, and the two adventure groups with a poor relationship, or the mage with a poor character, etc., will be seen here, so the kingdom sent many sparrows to garrison the gladiatorial arena, for fear of accidents.
After the conflict subsided, everyone turned their attention back to the gladiatorial arena, and because of the dragon's fangs, many people began to focus on the two teenagers.
"Come on, little ghost, beat him!"
"Flatten him and let them know it's awesome!"
The people shouted out, looking like they were deliberately provoking the Dragon's Fangs.
Becoming the focus of the audience in an instant made the two teenagers nervous, they had been used to it for a year, but they had never been shouted and cheered on by so many people, which made them tremble a little.
"It's fine. Lott patted Rod's arm, although both of them were nervous, but a year of training was not in vain, the two encouraged each other, and tacitly began to adjust their breathing into the state.
Because it is an official match, there is a referee on the sidelines who adjudicates the game, and he is mainly responsible for judging violations and stopping the gladiatorial fight to prevent injuries. With the referee's order, the gladiatorial fight officially began.
In the face of shielded enemies, the two also have some experience, and have fought against several old knights. As usual, the first strike was made, with Rod attacking the front and Lott going around behind him.
Seeing that the teenagers were decisive, the crowd erupted in shouts, and the man who was their opponent let out a cold snort.
"Let me tell you what happens to the weak!" the man struck twice on the shield with his wooden sword, and the man smiled mockingly.
This obvious provocation was useless, Saiya had warned them countless times, ignore this low-level behavior, the two exchanged glances, Rhodes took the lead in attacking, he quickly approached the man, hunched over and stabbed him in front of the door with a sword in both hands.
The man saw Rhodes come over and set up the shield, this is a big shield, after setting it up, there is basically no need to worry about the frontal stabbing after erecting it, he turned his head to look at Lot, the routine routine is also clear, one person attacks to attract attention, and the other person sneaks up from behind, he has seen a lot of this.
But Lott didn't move, just when the man was puzzled, suddenly a gust of wind blew in his ears, he instinctively began to retreat, and Rod's blow of jumping into the air missed at the critical moment.
Seeing that the man was frightened, Lott attacked from behind, the man turned around and confronted him, after a few rounds of sword blade impacts, Rod rushed over from the front, the man tried to block Rod with a shield, but he saw Rod flashing left and right to bypass his defense, and the attack behind Lott was not slackening, and the man was in a dilemma, so he could only retreat and distance himself.
The two didn't give him a chance to breathe, they separated left and right to surround him again, "Damn!
"We're still novices, so let us go. Lott said as he circled behind him, and the two of them attacked again.
"Let?" The man suddenly laughed, "Then I'll let you guys do well!" Not looking at Lott in the rear at all, the man rushed directly to Rhodes in the front, he thought about killing one, and the rest was not to be afraid, as long as this kind of novice was fast, the other would not have time to support.
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