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It's a carnival like a festival!

The first impression Char left after witnessing the scene in front of him!!

The perimeter of the ancient arena is an angular building, and inside you are a large oval plaza surrounded by stepped stands ranging from a few meters to more than ten meters in height.

In zhōngyāng, a large circular pit about 100 meters in diameter was dug into the ground, and the depth of the excavation into the ground reached four or five meters, and the surrounding area was surrounded by round boulders piled up to form an edge, which was unattainable. The spectators in the stands around are above the safety level of the edge.

I saw that the highest place was due north, the grandstand on that side was fifteen meters high, compared to the height of the city wall, one by one fence-shaped protruding terrace shape, the square stone pillars arched, the middle terrace was the highest, semi-garden-shaped, even the railing of the fence was painted with gold sè, and the terraces on both sides were about one meter apart, showing a goose wing shape spreading.

The rest of the stands were in the usual staircase style, and when Char walked into the arena, the huge arena, which was large enough to hold more than 20,000 people, was nearly half full.

According to Afrecut, this is only the preliminary round, and when it comes to the main stage, the arena is full almost every day. The one closest to the front row is the most expensive, because you can hear the roars and shouts of the warriors in the arena at close range, and see every detail of the bloody scene more realistically, and sometimes, you can even feel the blood spraying!

-- These seats have always been the preserve of aristocrats or wealthy businessmen who are willing to spend a lot of money.

And the terraces above the distance like a box, are owned by the real magnates of the empire, the highest one belongs to the royal family, the annual competitive competition, the final competition, His Majesty the Emperor himself will attend the observation, and the terraces on both sides belong to the prime minister, generals, imperial ** officials and so on.

Entering the stands in the arena through a gate, Char followed Alfrecat to the east near the north, and there were also special waiters in the arena, these people were wearing short-sleeved black gowns, obviously it was a cold day, but they were tired and sweaty, and they were running back and forth barefoot, some holding large plates, which were full of dropped notes, as well as all kinds of currency, gold and silver.

"These are the people in charge of placing bets. Alfrecat smiled: "This kind of competitive competition, which is full of business opportunities, as early as many years ago, the right to compete in the competition has been sold by His Majesty to several powerful ancient chambers of commerce in the empire, such an auction of gaming rights, once every ten years, each time will let the three chambers of commerce with the highest bid to jointly own the gaming rights." ”

He pointed to the waiters who were running around, and whispered: "Before entering the game, the bulletin board outside has the names and origins of the warriors, and before the start of each game, the audience can place bets with the waiters, and when they place bets, they can pay in cash in exchange for a note with a bet written on it, and after the game is over, they can exchange the winning money with the note." ”

Alfrecat laughed, then pulled a waiter running past him, took a silver coin from his pocket and stuffed it into the other, shouted and gestured twice, and the waiter quickly and respectfully led the two to the lower front row of the Northeast Stand, and found an empty seat in the third row for the two to sit down.

Subsequently, Char got a taste of the fierce jīng color and ...... of this kind of competitive competition that had a long history in the Byzantine Empire Cruel!!

The huge arena below, the large circular pit was divided into six small tournament arenas with stone walls that could be pushed by pulleys underneath, which was the rule during the preliminaries, and once in the main competition, the entire arena could be filled up for each competition.

There were different preliminaries being held in the six small tournaments, and Char took a cursory look at it and saw a bit of taste.

In the small martial arts arena divided into three, they are all two or two samurai fighting each other, looking at the strength is not mediocre, I think they are all those weak people in the preliminaries, but there is a martial arts arena, but it is not a contest between samurai!

A man in leather male armor, with a shield in one hand and a long sword in the other, half-crouched, was confronting a blood-devouring wolf! The wolf was an adult wolf, strong and strong, and his physique was about the same size as the one Char killed in the wildfire field, but the hair was more dense and bright, and his physique was obviously more outstanding!

The samurai had already been wounded, with deep scratches on his arms and thighs each of the two wolf claws, dripping with blood, and the wolf also had blood stains on one of its front paws.

When Char looked at it, the wolf pounced and threw the samurai directly backwards to the ground, but the samurai blocked the door with a shield, although he was pounced, but the wolf's head was on the shield, and the wolf's claws tore and grabbed it, but he couldn't penetrate the shield, and the samurai took the opportunity to stab the wolf belly a few times with his long sword below!!

The sound of puffing blood, the excited shouts of the spectators in the stands, the wild wolf screamed and whimpered, and was finally overturned by the samurai, and it had already been disemboweled, and even the internal organs and intestines flowed out, and after a few struggles, he fell to the ground, and the samurai strode over and stabbed his sword into the wolf's head, and then raised his shield and let out a cry of victory. It won the applause of the audience in the stands next to it.

Seeing this, Char withdrew his eyes and sneered.

Alfrecat also noticed the battle situation over there, and seeing that Char was unimpressed, he explained: "In the process of drawing lots, in order to increase the number of views, the battle between man and beast was added many years ago, and if the lottery is drawn like this, it will be the most popular scene for the audience...... Well, the beasts drawn in the preliminaries are generally not too strong, there are more ordinary jackals, lions and tigers, and fewer monsters. These animals are kept in the Chamber of Commerce and are used exclusively for competitions. ”

"There is a fake. Char hit the nail on the head and sneered: "Look at the wild wolf that was killed, hum...... How could the blood-devouring wolf be so weak? These citizens had not seen the ferocity of a real mad wolf, the real mad wolf, and they were afraid that they would kill that warrior with a few bites. ”

Afreca nodded and muttered, "Your Excellency, you are right. In these competitions, fraud often happens, and those chambers of commerce sometimes do some cāo control in the game in order to make a profit, which is difficult for people to control, but this beast is much easier. In the battle between man and beast, if you want people to win, then pour some anesthesia and other drugs into the monster before the game, so that the beast will be slow to react and weaken its strength, so ordinary viewers will not be able to see it. If you want the beast to win, you can pour some exciting drugs into the monster, and make the monster crazy in a short period of time, and improve its combat effectiveness. ”

Char shook her head: "I'm not talking about this. Hum...... I'll just tell you, even without the use of drugs, the magical beasts used in this kind of competition are much worse than those used in the real wilderness. ”

The turtle sighed: "Raising big things in cages, and the wild xìng that grew up in the wilderness, mountains and forests, which is stronger and which is weaker, needless to say! Even if it is the same tiger, it has been raised in the cage for many years, and it has transformed into a cat." ”

Alfrecat nodded repeatedly, in agreement. Char couldn't help but cast a look of approval.

After commenting on these, the two of them suddenly heard the audience around them suddenly stand up, letting out a tsunami-like shout and cheer, everyone's faces were as excited and excited as admiring heroes, Char and Alfrecat were stunned and looked down...... It turned out that under the northeast stand where the two of them were, there was a small martial arts arena that was divided, and the martial arts arena was empty, and the players who were fighting at this moment had just appeared.

Obviously, there may be some famous guy among the players in this competition, or a famous player with a prominent record before, which caused these spectators to cheer and shout.

Alfrecat and Char looked down, their eyes widening at the same time.

"Shit! this bastard?!"

I saw that in the martial arts arena under the platform, two warriors walked in, one of them, wearing silver sèjīng steel light armor, handsome appearance, holding a silver cross sword, under the sun, the silver sè armor shining, but it really has a bit of eye-catching momentum.

This guy made Char and Alfrecat look at it, and they immediately showed anger, especially Alfrecat, who was even more enemies when they met, and they were very red-eyed!

This person is actually the leader of the Silver Python Samurai Regiment who ambushed the two of them on the way to Dìdū, Philip!!

"How could it be this guy?" Char snorted and squinted his eyes, "He's a high-level samurai, isn't he?

Alfrecat gritted his teeth fiercely: "According to the strength of the Silver Python Warrior Regiment, he doesn't have to play the preliminaries." But...... He didn't compete in the first three editions, but let his younger brother compete, so counting his past results, although his samurai regiment was famous, in the individual competition, he had to start from scratch...... Hmph, it's also possible that he did it on purpose, after all, his brother defeated me in the last competition, which damaged their reputation, and this time he made a comeback, taking advantage of the weakness of his opponent in the preliminaries, and spelling out a few consecutive victories, so as to earn some fame. ”

Naturally, Philip in the audience did not notice Char and Alfrecut, who were hidden in the dense crowd of the stands.

His opponent was a fierce-looking samurai, about thirty years old, armed with an iron shield in one hand and a long sword in the other. Wearing a cowhide cuirass - regardless of strength, just this dress and equipment seems to be who is strong and who is weak, everyone knows in their hearts.

The warrior seemed nervous, too, but he couldn't afford to back down at the moment, just stared at Philip tightly.

Philip's face was full of arrogance, showing that he raised his long sword high, greeted the audience in the stands, and earned enough cheers and applause from the audience, and then turned around, smiled coldly at the opponent in front of him, and pretended to bend down elegantly, and performed an ancient salute of a samurai.

Subsequently, the two top-body ** wrestlers next to the competition field reasonably slammed a heavy hammer on a giant round gong, and with a bang, the competition began! The two quickly carried the giant gong and retreated from the side door.

Philip stood on the spot, his face calm and relaxed, he had calculated that it was impossible to meet an opponent who really posed a threat to him in the preliminaries - although it was not without hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the preliminaries, but he had already scattered a large amount of gold coins, bribed the people of the Chamber of Commerce who arranged the game, and he already knew the lottery process, at least before the main match, the road was smooth - Alfrecat was not mistaken, he was just going to take advantage of the weakness of the opponent in the preliminaries, create a few consecutive wins, and add some prestige to himself.

Before this match, he had won four in a row, and one of them even killed a wind-type arrowtooth beast on the spot! That game made him famous, but others didn't know that the arrowtooth beast that was fighting against him was poured a large vat of spirits mixed with narcotics before the game!

Glancing at the opponent, this opponent is too far inferior to himself from the equipment, the swords and shields in his hand are all ordinary goods, and the leather armor on his body is a defense that can only be used in remote mercenary groups - even if he just parries and does not fight back, with his own high-grade silver armor, it is not easy for the other party to hurt himself!

The rival samurai bent down with a sword and shield and circled around Philip for half a circle, carefully capturing the fighter, and Philip stood there, smiling proudly with his sword in his hand, looking at his opponent coldly.

Finally, the opponent couldn't find the flaw, his heart was horizontal, he roared, and a faint gray light appeared on his body, obviously the level of fighting spirit had also reached the ranks of middle-level warriors, he took a leap, his body rose into the air, protected his vital point with a shield, and slashed down with a volley!

Airplanes!!!

Philip took a step back, blocked the horizontal sword, and heard a clatter, and the warrior stepped back, and the blade in his hand was already missing a small opening! Philip laughed, deliberately pretending, and shouted: "You are not my opponent, quickly lose the sword and surrender!"

After speaking, his whole body was full of silver light, and the silver light instantly enveloped his whole body, and under the silver armor and silver sword, his body was filled with a divine and awe-inspiring momentum! The spectators in the stands immediately shouted and cheered.

High-level fighting spirit!High-level fighting spirit!!!

"Yi?" Char couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

This Philip, when Rì ambushed him, he didn't seem to be so aggressive, right?

Alfrecat glanced at it and sneered: "He faked!"

"Fake, vindictive, can cheat?" Char's eyes widened.

"There must be some kind of magic on his armor, this is an illusion, using light to shine shè, magnifying the light of the fighting spirit, it looks scary, in fact...... Hmph, his younger brother used this method last year, before the competition, the momentum made the opponent a little more jealous, and when the fight started, it was more advantageous to seize the first move. It's just that his brother was still fucked down by me, hmph! These two brothers are not good things. ”

Sure enough, the opponent samurai saw Philip's gorgeous fighting spirit, his face became more and more difficult to look at, Philip shouted, jumped up, and stretched out like a big bird, the movements were really gorgeous and vigorous, people were in the air, a sword fell, the light blade on the blade of the sword was separated, and a fighting spirit light cut down, and the opponent raised his shield to resist, and with a bang, the ordinary iron shield was suddenly cut in half!

Philip fell in front of the opponent, stabbed with a sword, the opponent struggled to block the knife, the two fought four or five times in a row, the opponent's momentum became more and more weak, there was a gap in strength, and was pressed by the opponent's momentum, the shield was cut down, and the next hand couldn't help but weaken a little momentum, although the blade struggled to block, but when a few times, it retreated again and again, left and right, ah a scream, a sword on the shoulder! Philip deliberately flaunted, the blade of the sword turned, and with a snap, the shoulder strap of the opponent's breastplate was broken, and with a snort, the opponent's breastplate was picked off by him!

He stepped forward and kicked his opponent's heart, and the warrior spurted blood from his mouth, flew backwards, fell to the ground and struggled, and when he was about to stand up, Philip had already caught up, raised his long sword and slashed!

Sonorous and sonorous!!

The gorgeous light of the silver sè pressed the fighting spirit of the opponent samurai gray sè almost invisible, and after a few consecutive splits, this samurai was already kneeling on the ground and couldn't stand, but after holding the knife with both hands and blocking it a few times, he made a loud noise, and the blade was already shortened!

Philip sneered, and the blade of the sword was crossed on the opponent's neck, and then with another kick, the opponent was kicked to the ground, and the foot stepped on the opponent's heart, raising the long sword and signaling to the audience in the stands.

At this time, the spectators in the stands were boiling!

In the preliminaries, you can see a high-level samurai with a silver sè fighting spirit, which is an extremely rare scene! It seems that this kind of master has always entered the main competition directly!

At this moment, the audience shouted one after another, many people shouted vigorously, picked up a handkerchief from under their seats and waved it vigorously, and some even had distorted expressions, shouting: "Kill! kill! kill!"

There are also bets on the opponent and loses money, so angry that they tear up the betting strips, and they also shout "kill" loudly!

The audience was full of "killing"!

This is originally a bloody and cruel tradition, on the competitive stage, life and death are up to fate, and murder is not guilty! Although it is not necessarily that life and death will be divided into every game, but according to the ancient rites, many times, if the surrounding audience waives a handkerchief and shouts to kill, then the samurai below can execute the opponent at the request of the audience! Such a move does not need to be investigated by the imperial decree!

Of course...... If you have good intentions, it is natural for your subordinates to keep people.

It's just that this Philip naturally won't have any good thoughts, since he came to participate in the preliminaries as a high-level samurai, it is to build momentum, and the more people he kills, the bigger the sensation will be!

In the midst of the shouts of slaughter around him, Philip sneered and looked down at the opponent who was stepping on his feet, the samurai's heart was bright, his face was full ......of fear, and he shouted: "I admit defeat!"

Burst!

Without waiting for the samurai to finish begging for mercy, Philip stabbed his sword into the opponent's throat, and then the blade of the sword turned, and the sharp blade cut the neck, Philip bent down and grabbed the opponent's hair, and pulled it hard!

Burst!!!

Blood spurted wildly in the cavity, and then rained down again, drenching his bright silver armor with red spots!

Philip raised his sword in one hand and the severed head above his head in the other, blood spilling from it, but he laughed wildly at the spectators in the stands.

In an instant, the enthusiasm of the spectators in the stands was ignited! These people came here to watch in order to seek the bloody thrill of this sense! Seeing the murder and beheading in public, the bloody scene pierced the frenzy of the spectators more and more, and countless people stood up and shouted at Philip frantically, and even other people in the stands paid attention to the scene here, jumping up and shouting and cheering.

For a while, the stands in the entire arena were almost attracted by Philip's actions, and no one paid attention to the movements of other martial arts arenas.

The audience cheered, Philip was full of ambition, and only felt that it was a wise decision to lower his status to participate in this kind of preliminaries, and it was really worth spending thousands of gold coins to make connections!

The applause lasted for about a minute, and two wrestlers came out of the side door to move out the gong, and were about to ring the end gong...... At this time, Philip suddenly made a move that made the audience even more boiling!!

He suddenly flew up and slashed the brass hammer in the hand of the wrestler with a sword!

The two wrestlers were stunned on the spot!

Philip, on the other hand, strode to the edge of the arena, stretched out his arms, and raised his silver cross sword in one hand - only to turn the hilt upside down, the hilt upwards, and gesture to the surrounding ring of stands!!

This move immediately made the audience boil, and the roaring and cheering almost overturned the buildings of the arena!!

"Challenge! This is a challenge!!"

Alfrecat and Char sat in the crowd, Alfrecat had a glint in his eyes, and his fists clenched: "This is the ancient rite of the competitive competition!

The shouting next to him was deafening, and Char frowned and asked loudly, "What kind of ancient rites? What does he mean by this challenge?"

Alfrecat shouted in Char's ear with a loud voice: "That is, the victor has the right to demand that the game not end, and the contest continues! As long as the gong does not sound! According to the ancient rites, the victorious samurai, in order to show off his martial prowess, can challenge the audience, and among the audience, if anyone thinks that he disagrees with the victorious samurai, he can immediately go down to the challenge! No matter whether he fights or dies, he does not ask about the crime! He is very smart, knowing that the people who come to watch in the preliminaries are ordinary spectators, and when it comes to the finals, there will be many famous martial artists in the stands to watch...... So, he actually made such a move in the preliminaries, cunning bastard!"

When Char heard this, he suddenly laughed wildly on his face.

"Hahahaha!zìyóu challenge?good! Okay!Yes!!This guy is worried that he can't find him! He is looking for death by himself, so he can't blame Lao Tzu!"

After speaking, the turtle suddenly slapped Alfrecat and shouted: "Watch carefully with your eyes open, Lao Tzu will avenge your dead brothers!"

Char suddenly jumped up from the stands, and jumped into the battle platform below with a bang!!

When he suddenly appeared, the audience was immediately crazy! Watching this kind of game, such a dramatic scene appeared, but the audience was most eager to look forward to! Sure enough, as soon as the turtle appeared, most of the applause of the audience was cast for this guy who jumped off the stands.

In the entire arena, it was like a huge beehive, and the buzzing sound was deafening...... ※※※ Char's action of jumping off the arena was not fancy, and after slamming on the ground, the place where his feet landed suddenly slammed into a dirt pit!

Char wiped the dust from his face, looked up at Philip, and smiled evilly: "Hey, little white face, Lao Tzu is here!!"

Philip originally had a calculation in his heart, there will be no masters in the stands in this preliminaries, and there is no danger in doing some outrageous moves by himself, just now caused the audience to cheer, he was proud in his heart, and suddenly such a bad god fell from the sky?!

When Philip saw the person clearly, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart! How could he not remember Char? When Rì was ambushed on the road, this madman intervened sideways and saved that Alfrecat, and when he fought with himself, this guy's martial arts skills were ridiculously strong! If it weren't for the help of the magician he hired, he was afraid that he would be cut by the other party's sword at that time! And even so, Char was forcibly killing the magician head-on, carrying the magician's bloody head, and he looked like he was angry...... Every time I think about it afterwards, it makes Philip have nightmares!!

And at this moment, just when he was most proud, this nightmarish guy actually appeared out of thin air?!

Philip was so shocked that he almost couldn't even hold his sword, and subconsciously took two steps back, staring at Char with wide eyes.

"Hmm, why are you staring at them so much?" Char squinted his eyes, slowly pulled out the fire fork, and showed a wicked smile on his face: "Don't you recognize Lao Tzu?" Come on, come on, little white face, obediently come over and let your Master Char stab a few times!"

The shouts and shouts around him were like a tsunami, but where was Philip's slightest smugness in his heart at this moment?

Staring at Char deadly, Philip's face turned blue and white, and finally gritted his teeth and burst out of his teeth: "You! I have no grudge against you, why are you pressing me so tightly......"

Xia Ya waved his hand, forced forward step by step, the fire fork slashed again and again, and said with a cruel smile: "There is no hatred, let Lao Tzu stab a few times first." Come on, come on, don't hide!"