Rodney Arnold has won several gladiator matches in a row since he put his bets on Remut, and this wealth is enough for him to buy 20 slave gladiators like Remut. Due to Remut's extraordinary performance in the gladiatorial arena, his value suddenly increased, and Rodney Arnold had to pay three times the price if he wanted to buy Remut.

After much bargaining, Master Arnold eventually bought Remut for 3,000 gold coins. Although his worth has increased, Remut feels that all this wealth has nothing to do with him, he is just a commodity to be bought and sold. Slave owners made money by buying and selling slaves and holding gladiatorial tournaments, and the fate of slaves was always in the hands of the major slave owners.

And Lord Arnold decided to buy Remut because he took a fancy to Remut as a clever ghost with superb fighting skills. And Remut will become Lord Arnold's full-time gladiator, and will be taken to various places in the kingdom of Atlas to participate in gladiatorial competitions and earn money for Lord Arnold.

Master Arnold sat cross-legged on his chariot, carried by four strong men, with twelve knights in front of him and a group of armor soldiers behind. Remut was chained in a prisoner's cart and pulled by a large black horse. Remut was taken to Lord Arnold's castle, which was built of off-white granite and was very grand.

At the castle, the prisoner cart opened, and Remut emerged from it. He was shackled, his clothes were ragged, and his messy hair seemed to be smeared with a layer of oil, and the stench was terrible.

A woman wearing an embroidered gold veil stood in the doorway, and four maids stood on the left and right. When the four strong men slowly lowered their steps, she gracefully approached Lord Arnold, and when Lord Arnold got up, she greeted, "Father, you are back." ”

Remut couldn't understand what she was saying, but he knew intuitively that she was Lord Arnold's daughter.

"Josie, you made another big profit for your father today, do you have any gifts you want?"

She shook her head, "You've given enough gifts!"

"No matter how many gifts you give, none of the daughters are as precious as the time they spend with their fathers. But the good daughter has grown up, and she still has to get married after all. ”

"But I don't want to marry into the royal family and get involved in court struggles. ”

"You'll understand me later! Alright, let's go inside. ”

Arnold turned to the guards and shouted, "Why are you stunned? Throw this stinking creature into the bathhouse, wash it, and change into clean clothes." ”

Two guards escorted Remut past the father and daughter, and Remut couldn't help but look back at Josie. Josie seemed to notice it, too, and she looked at Remut and saw a pair of piercing eyes on her dirty face.

"Watch out for your eyeballs, stinker! The guards holding Remut sneered maliciously.

The dungeons of Arnold Fort are much cleaner than the dungeons of the Colosseum, unlike the dungeons of the Colosseum, which stink. There will be no lice and fleas either, but it is difficult to say whether the lice and fleas on Remut will climb down from him and establish two colonies in Lord Arnold's dungeon.

"The stinky guy," is accustomed to call these stinking slave gladiators, "This is the garment that Lord Arnold has given you," he said, throwing the garment to Remut, "and going to the bathhouse to wash off the smell of shit." ”

Remut didn't understand what he said, and was stunned for a moment, but Bell Kane took Remut directly to the bathhouse, and Remut understood what he meant by asking him to take a bath. Although it's a dungeon, the environment is really good. There were hot baths, sleeping places and beds, the rooms were very clean and cleaned by special servants.

"Alright, I know it's time to take a bath! You can get out!" said Remut.

Bell Kane didn't know what he said, and thought it was because the water wasn't hot enough, so he said, "Burn you dead pig." ”

After Remut finished bathing, he was taken by Bell Kane to the Hall of Lords to meet Rodney Arnold. Historically, Lord Arnold would not have intersected with gladiators, especially those who were slaves, but Remut was an outlier.

Lord Arnold told the servants and guards to retreat, and then said to Remut in the Kyushu lingua franca, "Come here, Remut, I'll talk to you about business." ”

Lord Arnold said in the lingua franca of Kyushu, which made Remut a little curious, how could this Atlas speak the lingua franca of Kyushu.

"My lord, aren't you afraid that I will take the opportunity to kidnap you and escape?"

"Oh, yes? What is there to be afraid of? I believe that a person who knows how to be grateful will not do anything unreasonable to his benefactor. ”

Benefactor? Remut clearly remembers that he had just killed the lion and was very weak, so he forcibly asked him to participate in a brutal gladiatorial match. After that, he was forced to participate in several gladiatorial competitions, which made him a lot of money. How dare he say that he is his benefactor?

"I can't afford the kindness of adults. ”

"You mean gladiatorial matches? No, no, no, they're just tests for you. You can still stand in front of me alive now, proving that I am not mistaken......" Arnold praised, "hmm...... What a clever ghost!"

"What exactly are you trying to say?"

"I'm going to give you freedom, understand?

"Give me freedom?" Remut asked, not knowing what Arnold's purpose was, "What about the prerequisites?"

"I said it was a pleasure to talk to smart people. Arnold was overjoyed, "Soon the Prince of Lauren will come to Ploki to marry Josie, and there will be a great gladiatorial tournament." Prince Valen took pleasure in hunting gladiators, and I hope he never gets up again in the arena, do you understand what I'm talking about?"

"You want to murder the prince?"

"No, no, no, he just died in the arena and didn't say murder. After the deed is done, I will let you go away. ”

"If I really end up with him, will I still be able to go?"

"You can rest assured that through so many gladiatorial matches, people know you Remut. Even if you kill the prince by mistake in the arena, for the sake of public opinion, no one will do anything to you. What's more, helping Prince Lauren eradicate competitors is indispensable. ”

"Such a big secret, you will let me leave alive?"

"I've already investigated! You are from the kingdom of Dachang in Middle-earth, and you were taken captive during a seafaring adventure and became a slave. As soon as you leave Atlas and return to Middle-earth, the secret will not exist in Atlas. Why should I not let you go?"

"Since you know about my capture in the Devil's Sea, you also know about my crew, where are they now?"

"It's not hard for me to find out where they are. The difficulty is that my daughter can only become the queen in the future. ”

"But why would you do that?"

"Prince Valen has married the daughter of my enemy, and if he ascends the throne in the future, he will definitely suppress my Arnold family. ”

"I have only one condition, find my crew and let them follow me back to Middle-earth. ”

A few days later, Master Arnold received a shocking message. King Atlas died and was succeeded by Prince Valen Atlas, who was nowhere to be found.

This incident directly aborted Arnold's murder plan, and the newly enthroned Valen Atlas, at the instigation of his father-in-law, finally listed Rodney Arnold and other people as traitors, and gathered a large army to prepare for the crusade, and Rodney Arnold had to raise troops to resist.

But at the beginning of the war, Valen's royal division won three battles with overwhelming momentum. Just as Valen's army was about to besiege Arnoldburg, Rodney Arnold released Remut and asked Remut to protect his daughter from the castle and find her a safe place. After tearfully confessing to her father, Josie followed Remut out of the port of Pulokee in a small boat.

"Where are we going?" said Josie like her father, speaking the lingua franca of Kyushu.

"I've got to find my crew and go back to Middle-earth. ”

My mother said she was from Zhenzhou. ”

Remut was originally curious about how they could speak the lingua franca of Kyushu, but when Josie said that her mother was also from Zhenzhou, he understood what was going on.

Shortly after leaving the port, a warship pursued them. At first, they both thought it was Valen Atlas's pursuers, until Josie recognized Prince Lauren and her brother Kesso on board as the ship approached. At the same time, Remut saw familiar faces, they were the old oarheads, the scarfaces, and the skinny monkeys.

It turns out that since they were captured by the Atlas who harness the sea monsters in the Devil's Sea, the old oarsman and his party have been sold to work as shipwrights. Later, he met Caesor, who was loyal to Prince Lauren, and learned from his communication with Caesso that Remut was working as a gladiator in Ploki.

As they prepared to follow Kesso to Pulokee, King Atlas died and was succeeded by Prince Valen. Kesso decided to find Prince Lauren and return to Pulokee. But by the time they found Prince Lauren, the new king's army against Arnold was already on his way to Polokhi. By the time they arrived in Puroki, Valen's army had already surrounded the city of Puroki. Kesso's ships did not dare to approach the harbor until Remut escaped with Josie.

After Remut got on the warship, he looked at Prince Lauren's face and felt a little familiar. After thinking about it for a while, I finally remembered what happened in the Devil's Sea. After Remut's ship was dragged into the sea by the sea monster, they struggled in the water, but a ship with a sea monster insignia fished them up. The man who summoned the sea monster and commanded the soldiers on the ship was none other than Prince Lauren.

Remut secretly said in his heart: "I didn't expect wow, it's really a narrow road." It was this noble prince who had made him a slave gladiator, but now he was in the same boat as him like a lost dog. ”

There is a saying that the enemy is very red when they meet, and Remut can't hold back the anger in his heart, and draws his sword to take Prince Lauren, "Dog thief, do you remember your grandfather?"

Everyone was stunned by Remut's move, and looked at Remut with a blank expression, they didn't know why Remut saw Prince Laurent as if he were an enemy.

"What do you want to do?" Kessel stopped.

"It's my business with him, you get out of here. ”

The unreasonable Prince Lauren thought that Remut was an assassin lurking beside Josie, and while dodging, he shouted to catch the assassin, and the soldiers on the ship quickly surrounded him.

Josie suddenly stood in front of Prince Lauren, "Remut, you stop me." ”

Remut shouted, "Get out of the way, I'm going to kill this thief who made me a slave today." ”

Prince Lauren couldn't understand what Remut was saying and asked Josie what was going on, and Josie translated what Remut said. Prince Lauren immediately shook his head, saying that he had never known Remut, and that it was a great wrong.

But Remut recognized Prince Lauren's appearance, and said that it was Prince Lauren's Lauren who he met in the Devil's Sea, and he was the one who made everyone into slavery.

Lauren said he rarely went to sea and never went to that area at all. Moreover, with his current strength, he couldn't summon a sea monster at all.

Speaking of which, Josie finally found the crux of the problem. It turns out that Prince Lauren and his twin brother look almost identical, the only difference is that Prince Valen is known for his bravery, while Lauren is a weak man. Therefore, the person Remut met in the Devil's Sea is most likely Valen Atlas.

Valen was a ruthless man who loved to hold all kinds of gladiatorial competitions, especially hunting gladiators, which was his greatest pleasure. Therefore, they often went to sea to raid merchant ships, plundered property, and captured slaves to come back to buy and sell and torture them. Sometimes it was not enough for male gladiators to fight each other, and they also captured female slaves to train them as gladiators and drove them to the Colosseum.

After listening to Josie and Caesor's story, Remut put away his sword and said, "This revenge is not a gentleman." ”

After Valen mastered the power to summon sea monsters, many lords embraced him, with only a few lords like Rodney Arnold supporting Lauren. Because in the eyes of most Atlas people, only those who have the power to control the sea monster are the true descendants of the sea god.

In the law that the strong are respected, the weak can only be eliminated and abandoned. Now Atlas has no place for Prince Lauren. Therefore, he planned to return to Middle-earth with Remut. In order to evade Valen's pursuit, they set sail without reaching the port for resupply.

Until they sailed for more than a month, they were completely starved of food and water. Many of the paddlers and soldiers died, but the coastline of Zhenzhou was still nowhere to be seen. The living, who were so dehydrated that they no longer had the strength to speak, and the ship drifted with the wind in the sea.

Remut thought to himself, Lao Tzu has really fallen into bad luck for eight lifetimes, and it is better to be hacked to death in the gladiatorial arena than to die of hunger and thirst like this. So far, this damn thing doesn't even have the strength to draw his sword and kill himself.