Chapter 338: The Arena Opening Battle (Part II)

In the city of Saleen, the currency was issued the latest. Now there are banks, but a large amount of Qin Yin currency is the main carrier of transactions.

Saleen had already done a lot of publicity to open the arena, and the price of the ticket was finally set at twenty-five copper coins.

The price is still a bit high, but it is already affordable for civilians. For people at the bottom, one copper coin can eat a meal, usually half a black loaf of bread and a bowl of paste made from corn. Due to the extremely low price of Qin, this kind of black bread is actually mixed with a lot of things to feed the livestock.

Ordinary civilians would have to pay ten copper coins for each meal.

Twenty-five copper coins is almost an adult's food cost for a day. For the poor, it is somewhat unrealistic to spend a day's food money to watch a game. However, there are tickets for the arena in Saleen, and the magic number on this ticket can correspond to betting. Twenty-five copper coins are not only tickets, but also a lottery ticket for gambling.

You can watch fifteen games with one ticket, and if you guess each game correctly, you will have a hundred gold coins in your account. If you guess fourteen games correctly. There are also ten gold coins, and if you guess thirteen correctly, it is one gold coin.

One gold coin is equivalent to a thousand copper coins, and in comparison, you will find that the investment in this ticket is very small, once you guess it once. Even if you only guess thirteen games, it is equivalent to forty tickets coming out.

In fact, it is extremely difficult to guess thirteen games correctly, but no one except the magician understands how difficult it is. What ordinary people can calculate is only a multiple between one hundred gold coins and twenty-five copper coins.

That's four thousand times. With a profit of 4,000 times, it can easily ruin the minds of ordinary people.

For the first opening match of the arena, the ticket is only one copper coin, and everyone only needs to guess the top three correctly to get a silver coin income. The lord of the castle said that this is to let everyone understand the rules. Familiarize yourself with the betting style. When the arena is fully operational, the sixteen people in the weekly finals, the city lord will provide corresponding information, so that everyone can judge for themselves who will win.

All sixteen of these men are the winners of the weekly tournament in the small arena, which also accepts bets, but the prize size is half smaller.

The opening match did not have a preliminary match in the small arena, but directly in the large arena, and the lord of the castle would personally preside over it.

The tickets were all sold out, and in fact it wasn't enough for Saleen to spend more money on publicity. Fifty thousand copper coins, only fifty gold coins, Salin is losing money and making money.

The nobles now also think that there is money to be made by building an arena, but Saleen has just distributed the profits from the mines and the magic core to them. These aristocrats did not try to get a piece of the pie here.

In the blink of an eye, the arena of Saleen began its first competition on July 1.

The arena, which can accommodate more than 50,000 people, is named the Metatrin Center Gladiatorial Arena, and the arena has twenty-four passages, and in the center of the arena is a huge open space of six hundred by six hundred meters, and in the center of the open space is a stone ground surrounded by uneven land, sand, and several deep pits filled with water.

The surrounding stands are in the shape of a staircase, all of which were designed by Elena, and they are very spectacular. The perimeter of the oval-shaped arena is thirty meters high, like a small enclosed town. Hundreds of metal columns, strangely bent to form complex geometric shapes, stretched towards the center of the arena.

Above the stands, stained glass is laid on metal brackets, creating a semi-enclosed canopy. Even in the rainstorm, spectators can watch the game under the canopy.

To the north of the arena, there is a raised platform that protrudes. The high platform is designed in accordance with the cloud flow style, which is simple and elegant. Semi-enclosed seats were also spread out on both sides of the platform, where were the seats of the nobles, which could be distinguished from the commoners and could be closer to the game.

In fact, even civilians will not be able to see clearly because of the distance, and on the metal brackets of those semi-enclosed ceilings, a projection magic array is designed, which can magnify the game scene on the ground and form a virtual image in the air. Eileno even designed a magic array with sound amplification, so that every audience could clearly hear the fierce sounds that erupted in the battle.

When Salen saw Elenno's design, he felt that he had sold the ticket too cheaply, and twenty-five copper plates could appreciate the magician's masterpiece, which was not only a matter of making less money, but also a matter of the value of the magician.

Fortunately, the opening game symbolically charged only one copper coin, and Elenor suggested that different levels of tickets be sold depending on the seats. The ticket to the nobles' seats costs twenty-five gold coins, and the location where you can enjoy the best view of the magic image is also worth one silver coin and twenty-five copper coins, which are aimed at commoners.

The nobles would make a private bet among themselves that the twenty-five gold coins were nothing to them.

I don't know where Elenor's many whims came from, and with Nania, a knowledgeable mage, helping by her side, the construction of the arena can be said to be smooth sailing, and by the time Salin came to watch, it had become a prosperous place in the northern city.

There are many nobles in the northern city. There are also many pro-soldiers of the nobility, and some professionals, who live here, hoping to gain the favor of the nobility. On the contrary, the mercenaries are all in Dongcheng, there are many shops in Dongcheng, and there are many merchants who need mercenaries.

There are also people all the way in Beicheng, that is, craftsmen, there are many equipment stores here, only retail, unlike Dongcheng, which are basically wholesale to the outside.

Generally speaking, there are no poor people in Beicheng, and those craftsmen save hundreds of gold coins a year.

Salin is not to mention a copper coin and a ticket, just a gold coin, and all the people in Beicheng can eat it. However, Salin is in the business for the long term, and he can't just do it this once, so he would rather target everyone.

Salin was invited to the high platform, and on this high platform, there were only eighteen seats, and each seat could seat two people. These eighteen seats are twelve counts. Four dukes, as well as Saleen and Daniel's.

Saleen and Daniel will only be here today, and they may not have much time to watch the competition in person in the future.

Qin Yin has a polo game, which is very popular, and there will also be a huge arena. However, those arenas were not as luxurious as Salin's, and the number of people watching the games was usually one or two thousand. The arena of 50,000 people was noisy, and if it weren't for the fact that the nobles' seats were all designed by magicians, I'm afraid everyone wouldn't be able to communicate with each other.

On Salin's wide table, there were several magic arrays. The one in the middle is the Sound Transmission Magic Array. The control distance of the magic array, the farther away it is, the more it consumes the magic core, and none of these magic arrays are offensive magic, they are all auxiliary low-level magic, and the range of action is all in the arena.

The number of magic cores consumed by these magic arrays, Salin hardly has to think about it, and all the magic consumed is low-level magic, if Salin is embedded with a batch of intermediate magic cores, basically he doesn't need to replace them for two or three months.

Shika didn't come today, and Salen was sitting next to Elena, and many things were designed by her, and it was up to her to tell Saleen what was the most appropriate way to do it.

Daniel is the de facto administrator of Metatrin City, but the person sitting next to him is Nicholas. He and Salin sat in the center of the noble seat, and there was a row of chairs arranged in an arc behind them, but the people sitting were all close associates of Salin, and Neris did not sit, but stood behind Salin, and next to her, the three demons followed her, serving Salin and Eileno together.

The four dukes were very close together, and to the two sides, the counts were much farther apart. However, this high platform is all open, and it is also very convenient to communicate with each other.

Because the time had not yet come, Saleen communicated with the people around him.

Elenor explained to Salen very carefully, including some small shops set up in the arena, and food and water. In the entire arena, there are also 200 toilets and thousands of sentry positions.

On the high platform where Salin is located, it is the center of magic control, and under the high platform, there is a magic alchemy room that really controls the arena. Working inside are dozens of magic apprentices.

Saleen listened very carefully and noticed what Elenore was saying. There is nothing to calculate the omission, and when Elenor designed, she even considered how to evacuate these 50,000 spectators in case of a fire.

At fourteen o'clock in the afternoon, a deep voice rang out, and the whole arena could be heard.

"Residents of Metatrin City, everyone pay attention, everyone pay attention, the first Metatrin Athletic Tournament is about to begin, let's listen to the city lord of Metatrin City, His Highness Sarin, give us a few words!"

The arena was silent, a kind of silence that the commoners habitually had towards the aristocracy. You can say awe, or you can say respect. In particular, the Lord of Metatrin City will speak.

Already prepared for himself, Salin opened the Sound Transmission Magic Circle and began his first short speech in his life.

"My people......" Salin began with Elena, who paused for a moment and said, "Hello, I, Saleen? Metatrin, as the master of this city and this country, has created a strange thing about competitive competitions, and there is only one reason, I need capable people. ”

The arena was terrifyingly silent, in fact, the viewing area of the entire arena was divided into twenty-four, and once the magic array under the console was opened, neither of them could hear each other's voices.

"The Holy See is on the offensive, and until now, there are still hundreds of fighters being treated in the hospital I founded. Either they will survive or they will die on the expedition of the Holy See. The Metatrin will not succumb, and we will have more warriors, more magicians, to resist the arrogance, prejudice, cruelty, and absurdity of the gods. So, I need you!"

"Here I tell you that the whole of Garudan has fallen, but the city of Metatrin will always stand on this land, and will never give in, and we will attack, and attack to the plains of radiance. ”

Before Salin could finish his words, and I don't know which area to start from, the people suddenly cheered.

"Long live Metatrin!

"Never give in!"

The sound resounded through the sky, and even Salin's sound transmission magic array could not be suppressed.