Chapter 16: A Difficult Beginning

It was late at night when the gladiators revolted, and most of the courtyard of Bardax Manor was shrouded in darkness. The same is true for this corner of the backyard, so when Lagerseus and the others first entered, they didn't notice anything unusual right away. As the crowd searched for Bardax, a gladiator finally stumbled upon the grim sight of this corner.

Ragseus took the torch from one of the gladiators beside him and lit up the corner of the courtyard. In the corner of the wall stood a huge wooden cross, on which was nailed a ** man. Blood flowed down the cross from the hands and feet nailed with wooden nails, the ** man was disemboweled, the open chest cavity was empty, and the raw ~ colonization organ of the lower body was also cut off.

Judging from the internal organs remaining on the ground, it seems that after the man was killed and took out the internal organs and raw ~ breeding organs, these things were also eaten by the fighting dogs raised in the manor.

"Nyos!" Lagertius looked in amazement at the corpse of the man on the cross, none other than Nyos, the chief instructor of the gladiators, who had not been present this afternoon.

In fact, through the intelligence of the internal annihilation, Bardax had long known that Nyos was helping the gladiators prepare for an uprising. Bardax has not dealt with Nyos, not because he wants to let Neos go, but because he feels that it is not time to deal with Neos yet.

Before the gladiatorial competition of the Fibrom Festival, Bardax did not want to affect the gladiators' preparation because of Neos, so he kept holding back in the past few days. It wasn't until today that Nyos gave the gladiators their last pre-match training session that Bardax poured him down with drugged wine and crucified him.

However, what Bardax didn't expect was that in desperation, Neos actually revealed that the reason why he helped the gladiators to revolt was instigated by Governor Lucius.

This information made Bardax feel very troubled, he knew that at the end of his life, Neos only said the main messenger behind it, not to beg for his life, but to make Bardax jealous of Governor Lucius, so that the two would start hostility in the future and pay for his own death.

This was Neos's scheme, but it was clear that it could not be cracked unless Bardacus was so magnanimous that he didn't care that Governor Lucius was plotting against him.

Annoyed, Bardax made people gouge open Nyos's chest, feed his heart and lungs to the dogs, and cut off his raw ~ colony, so that Nyos died in pain and wailing at the last moment of his life.

Lagerseus looked at the horrific corpse of Neos with a somewhat complicated expression, compared to Artemis, as the chief instructor of the gladiators, Neos left a memory of brutality, coldness and severity to the gladiators, a little less respect, a little more fear.

"Looks like Bardax has fled!" Lagerseus sighed and threw the torch under the cross nailed to Nyos, turning the cross and Nyos into a large torch.

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"Boss, these gladiators are out of control!" Dinah looked at the gladiators scurrying around the manor, and began to annihilate ~ the female family members of Silver Bardax, smashed the furniture in the manor, and set fire to everything in the manor, and began to say worriedly.

"It's normal that there have been very few truly successful examples of slave revolts since ancient times, and one of the reasons is that they lack discipline." Max next to him shook his head and said, "These gladiators can only come to their senses if they vent their long-suppressed anger." ”

"Have you done everything I have commanded you?" Xu Mo looked at everything that happened in the manor indifferently, and turned his head to ask the two.

"The medicine and food have been sorted out, and two whole wagons have been loaded, and Serna and Jeanne are watching!" Dinah said with a smile.

"Boss, I have removed all the infantry armor from the arsenal according to your orders, and most of the armor on the guards has been stripped off by us. All the best iron weapons in the arsenal were also taken, as well as two full wagons. Max saw Xu Mo looking at him, and quickly replied.

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"Leave now? But they ......," said Omes, frowning.

"They are not like us, they have taken off the cloaks of gladiators, we Spartans are still warriors, but they are just civilians!" Xu Mo lowered his face and said, "The soldiers of the Spartan Regiment can't be nannies for them!" ”

"But if Artemis is still there......" Chisionis retorted, with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Artemis has been a slave for too long, his heart has become fragile, and if it weren't for them, he wouldn't have had to die that night!" Xu Mo said angrily.

Although Eumes and Chisonis jointly elected him as the second commander of the Spartan Regiment, in fact, Xu Mo could not command a single Spartan warrior, otherwise, he would not have to persuade Eumes and Chisonis to lead the Spartan Regiment to leave the manor first.

Seeing that the two of them were still hesitating, Xu Mo closed his eyes and took a deep breath, if it wasn't for the plan, this group of Spartan warriors played a pivotal role, he would definitely not persuade the two of them again and again, and would have turned around and left directly.

"Have you forgotten the rules of Sparta after you have been slaves for so long? If you will not obey me, why should you make me the commander of the Spartan regiment! Xu Mo said coldly, "Stay here for a second longer, and there may be one more Spartan warrior in the future!" ”

Hearing Xu Mo's words, the faces of Omus and Chisonis changed, the code of the Spartan army required the soldiers to absolutely obey the orders of the superior officers, to carry them out to the letter, and not to allow any hesitation and disobedience.

The soldiers of the Spartan regiment were different from the slave gladiators such as Cabal and Lagerseus who were sold to Bardax as children, they were all Spartan prisoners of war, and they were educated in Spartan militarism from an early age, and the army's discipline and obedience were deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and it can even be said that they were cultivated as an instinct.

"Yes, Captain Arres!" Eumes and Chisonis slapped their daggers on their shields, gave a military salute, and without further hesitation, began to gather the warriors of the Spartan regiment around the four wagons that Dinah and Max had arranged.

Although Omus and Chisonis obeyed Xu Mo's orders, Xu Mo also saw dissatisfaction in the eyes of the two. Artemis had long imprinted them so deeply that the Spartan warriors had come to regard gladiators of other races as their companions, and they would not leave them behind until the last resort.

The soldiers of the Spartan Regiment hurriedly sorted out their belongings, delaying Xu Mo's orders in disguise, while Eumes and Chisonis hurried to communicate with the leaders of the gladiators of the other races, informing them that they must hurry up and move.

Before Xu Mo's patience was about to run out, the gladiators finally regrouped and began to leave the manor, out of the cage where they had lived for a long time, and start a new life of freedom.

This leaderless and ununited gladiator rebel army staggered along the dark mountain roads, and like the rugged mountain roads, their road ahead was full of thorns and hardships, and the road to freedom was still long.

Either way, the flames of freedom will be left behind in the path they pass, just like the burning Bardax Manor behind them.