Chapter 16: The Blood Arena (2)

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The Great Crater refers not only to the location of the original Longyan Fort, but also to the vast area around the collapsed fortress, which is equivalent to the size of ten Valolet Cities.

If Sword Blade Mountain is amazing, the big pit is terrifying.

When some familiar scenery came into view, Link couldn't help but sigh.

This is clearly the great rift in the fantasy of the earth's dream, Si Life, the prophecy of the earth Isol has foreseen the future many years ago.

The flat ground suddenly sunk downward, and from afar, you could feel the scorching heat emanating from the deep cracks, and the purple smoke also came from here. Deep ravines split the ground into fragments of various sizes, and the wagons were minimized, accompanied by violent jolting.

Vera didn't like this feeling, and was about to get out of the car and walk, when the merchant Helini, who had been keeping an eye on her every move, suddenly shouted.

"Don't!"

Vera's feet were only elbows above the ground, and she glanced at the merchant before turning her gaze to Link.

The coachman turned the carriage so that Helini, who was at the front of the line, was close to the carriage in which Link was riding.

"That's right, the caravans that often come and go to the Great Pit have spent a lot of money to buy amulets from the monsters that are entrenched there. Helini said as he pointed to the strange runes painted on the carport, "Once you leave the carriage, you will be attacked by monsters. ”

Vera sneered, even if she was sealed, the monsters below the demon level would pose no threat to her at all.

Link's code of conduct is to keep a low profile, so naturally she will not be allowed to swagger 'walk' into the big pit. In desperation, Vera returned to the carriage.

After such a play, Helini is more certain that the relationship between Vera and Link is by no means a mere hire or companion.

At this moment, a hiss was heard in the distance, which did not belong to any kind of human domesticated livestock.

Helini's face changed slightly. Hurriedly following the prestige, there was something to the west approaching the caravan, raising a cloud of sand and dust.

"It's a bipedal lizard. Asa and Vera spoke in unison, the latter glaring at the former, and Asa shutting up in amusement.

"In the earthly mount, Ridu can rank in the top three, and it is said to have dragon blood. Hmph~ It's just a variant of the big lizard, like a dragon beast made in Befast. ”

In the short time that Vera had explained to Link, the flying sand and dust had already arrived in front of the caravan, and it was indeed a large lizard taller than a human, somewhat similar in appearance to a ferocious carnivorous velociraptor dragon. Strong feet to support it to run, a strap-held saddle on its back, and a human sitting on it, dressed in fine clothes, if not for a pair of sharp eyes and a strong smell of blood. It is difficult to associate this young man with a good appearance and a well-bred aristocratic appearance with such a dangerous place as the Great Pit.

Link's gaze quickly shifted to the spear hanging from the lizard's other side, which was more exaggerated in length than a medieval spear and as wide as a saber. This heavy weapon, combined with a highly mobile mount, is bizarre to look at.

Wilfredo's gaze swept over the people in the carriage one by one, and finally landed on Vera. Not only because of her appearance and obvious ancestry, but also because of her female identity. The ratio of men and women in the Great Trap is extremely imbalanced, and the vast majority of women are slaves. However, upon noticing Vera's outfit, his surprise was replaced by surprise.

Mage. Always with her own bloodline and outstanding ability, when she got there, she knew why the Great Trap was called a forbidden place for women.

With a pull on the reins, the lizard spread its feet, thoroughly demonstrated why it was given the title of "fly", and ran away in the blink of an eye, leaving a large pile of yellow sand for the caravan.

Noticing the familiarity of the merchant's eyes when he looked at the man. Link gives Asa a look and tells him to go to the merchant for information.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to thank him for the gift of the potion, Asa became acquainted with Helini and Andy successively, and successfully obtained a lot of useful information from them. For example, the uncle and nephew are one of the special caravans of the arena, and there is a town near the Great Crater that relies on the Blood Arena. The population and size are no less than that of Nax.

"Who is that little white face? The power of the human nobility doesn't work in the Great Pit, right?" Because it was a high-risk area that the Thorns of Shadows and Cobwebs couldn't penetrate, Asa didn't know more about the Great Trap than Link.

"Shhhhh He ran his hand across his neck in a simple, easy-to-understand gesture.

[Master Tier.] Vera gave an evaluation, [I haven't fought in actual combat, so I can't determine the specific level. 】

[Not past Nessam.] Link summed it up by saying that without fighting for his life, Neam's hand-to-hand combat was the strongest of the people he came into contact with. His attention was drawn to a word that Helini had just recited, "One of the champions of the arena?"

"Look there......" the merchant pointed to the front of the caravan, where there were obvious artificial traces on the horizon, and the buildings of various heights indicated that it was a settlement of no small size, "and there was the Blood Arena." ”

During these three days, Linktong Guò Asa learned that the so-called Blood Arena was really an out-and-out gladiatorial arena. In addition to the orcs who ostensibly had the right to control the situation, and the slaves who were sold here from other places, there was also a special product of the Great Trap - a huge number of monsters. Monsters as low as the same level as goblins, and as high as the Great Demon who cannot enter the material realm without summoning them, can all be found in this killing place that has been established for the same time as the Great Pit.

The origin of the Blood Arena is also quite dramatic, when Longyan Fort first fell, the orcs tried to cross the moat that prevented them from entering the land of abundance, but they were infested by monsters from the underground. At first, it was just a little monster that was not a threat, but as the rank climbed, the addition of the Great Demon eventually forced the nearby orc tribes to move away. In a way, the existence of the Great Trap allowed the orcs to continue to stay in Nanyanzhou, instead of waving their troops to the north and poisoning the humans who were already miserable enough.

With Link and Vera showing no signs of poisoning without an antidote, and being uneasy about their nephew's instincts and fearing that they would not be able to get into trouble, Helini eventually gave up on the idea of doing something outside the city, not worth losing his life for a rare half-blood.

Through his conversations with Asa, he also learns some 'information' that Link has deliberately leaked.

The Shadow Thief, the Demon Warrior, and the Warlock all belong to a newly formed mercenary group called from afar, and are hired to go to the Great Pit to find people. As for what this is looking for, there is no need to point it out, Helini knows it very well. The Blood Arena was the largest drain of the slave trade, selling far less than a tenth of it to human nobles.

Helini pretended to be kind and asked Link, who led the team, "The Blood Arena is mixed with dragons and snakes, all of them are outlaws, only the three of you, even if you find a target, you can't take it away." Unlike Nax, there is no even the most basic order, and the law of the jungle is the only law. ”

For the merchant's thief heart is not dead, Link will not expose it, "Although it is a new mercenary group, the number of members has been increasing. I'm not the head of the regiment, and I don't know exactly how many people there were, and whether anyone else was sent besides us. ”

Helini was greatly disappointed by the ambiguous answer, and he took one last look at Vera, who looked like a thorny rose, and made a request to part ways, with a kind warning.

"This is already the area of the arena, and you won't be attacked by monsters patrolling the periphery when you get off here, but the people in the city are bullying and afraid of the hard, so you have to be careful. ”

"That guy wouldn't have such a good heart. "For security reasons, it would be better for Asa to dispose of the entire caravan.

Even if he had never set foot in the Great Trap and knew that the slave trade was rampant here, Link openly told a merchant who was most likely a slave trader that he had come to save people, and he was undoubtedly digging his own grave. Even if the Child of Nature is not afraid of ordinary mercenaries and low-level monsters, he must always reveal his identity. Who said to keep a low profile?

As for Asa's worries, Link didn't even think about making a big fuss. The design of Neam to come forward and eliminate the slave trade of Nax is to focus the world's attention on the Dawn Sect, if he used the power of the children of nature in the Great Pit, wouldn't the early deployment and preparation be in vain.

Following the caravan's carriage from a distance, the three finally arrived at the only biological settlement near the Great Pit. The town that relied on the arena has no name, all the buildings are repaired at will, there is no complete and detailed planning, and there are no city walls. The streets are littered with ragged beggar-like outcasts, malevolent-eyed mercenaries, and little goblins running around as if they were harmless livestock.

The arrival of the outsiders immediately attracted attention, and everyone's eyes were focused on the three of them, but the caravan carriage passed through the crowd unhindered and disappeared around the corner.

Vera quickened her pace, just about to catch up and dispel the depression that had accumulated over the past few days.

Link put his arm around her shoulder, "Wait. 】

[You promised me. Vera didn't look back, her tone was visibly angry, her temper was much hotter than Doyle's.

[I'm not a rotten good person with overflowing sympathy, like that kind of person, I never relent. Link hinted with his eyes that the three of them had already been targeted before they entered the city, and there were many pairs of eyes watching their every move. There is time and opportunity to kill that black marketeer, don't rush now, I have already marked him, and when Shun Lì enters the city, you will trouble him again. 】

Knowing Link's temper and character, Vera once again backed down and restrained her killing intent.

In Asa's opinion, the two were completely making eye contact. Seeing Link looking at him, he waved his hand again and again, "I know, I'm going to find out the news." ”

The shadow thief's combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the assassin, but the lurking and hiding are first-class, unless he encounters an absolutely strong person who is crushed, ordinary people can't beat him, Asa can also protect himself and slip away, Link is not worried that he will be in danger of his life. (To be continued......)