It's a carnival like a festival The first impression Char made 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 the center, a large circular pit with a diameter of about 100 meters was dug into the ground, and the depth of the excavation reached four or five meters, and the edge was piled up with round boulders around it, 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 round stone pillars arched, the middle terrace was the highest, half-garden shaped, even the railing of the fence was painted gold, 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 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 you can 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.
The terraces in the distance are owned by the real magnates of the empire, and the highest in the center belongs to the royal family, and His Majesty the Emperor himself will attend the annual competition and the final competition, 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 large gate, Char followed Alfrecat to the east near the north, and there were also special waiters in the arena, these people wore short-sleeved black coats, obviously it was a cold day, but they were tired and sweaty, and they ran 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 said with a smile: "Such a competitive competition, which is full of business opportunities, as early as many years ago, the gambling rights of the competitive competition have 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 bidders 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.
Later, Char experienced the fierceness and brutality of this kind of competitive competition with a long history in the Byzantine Empire The huge arena below, the large circular pit was divided into six small jousting arenas with a stone wall that could be pushed by pulleys underneath, which was the rule during the preliminaries, and once it entered the main competition, then each competition, the entire field could be occupied.
Different preliminaries were being held in the six small martial arts arenas, 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 competition field, but it is not a contest between samurai but man and beast A man in leather male armor, with a shield in one hand and a long sword in the other, half-squatting, was confronting a blood-devouring wolf, the wolf was an adult wolf, strong and strong, and the physique was about the same size as the one Char killed in the wildfire field, but the coat color was more dense and bright, and the 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 was alert and blocked the front door with a shield, although he was knocked down, but the wolf's head was on the shield, and the wolf's claws tore and grabbed it, but it could not penetrate the shield, and the samurai took the opportunity to stab the wolf in the belly with a long sword a few times 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 looked disappreciative, he explained: "In the process of drawing lots, in order to increase the number of spectators, the project of fighting against people and beasts was added many years ago, and if the lottery is drawn like this, it is 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. ” "It's fake."
Char hit the nail on the head and sneered: "Look at the murdered mad wolf, how could the blood-devouring mad wolf be so weak These citizens of Yanjing have no knowledge, they have never seen the ferocity of the real mad wolf, the real mad wolf, I am afraid that I will 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 make some 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 stimulant drugs into the monster, so that the monster will be crazy in a short period of time, and the combat effectiveness will be improved. ” Char shook her head: "I'm not talking about this.
Hmph, I'll just tell you, even if you don't use drugs, the monsters used in this kind of competition are much worse than those in the real wilderness. ” The turtle sighed: "Raising big things in cages, and wild surnames that grew up in the wilderness, mountains and forests, which are stronger and weaker, needless to say, even if they are also tigers, they have been raised in cages for many years, and they have transformed into cats." ” Alfrecat nodded repeatedly, in agreement.
Char couldn't help but cast a look of approval.
After commenting on these, the two suddenly heard the audience around them suddenly all stand up, and let 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 were located, they were facing a small jousting field that was divided, and the jousting arena was empty, and the players who were fighting at this moment had just come out.
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.
"Fuck it's this bastard" I saw that in the martial arts arena under the platform, two warriors walked in, one of them, wearing silver stainless steel light armor, handsome, holding a silver cross sword, under the sun, the silver armor was shining, but it was really a bit of eye-catching momentum.
This guy made Char and Alfrecat look at it, and they immediately showed anger, especially Alfrecut, who was even more red when they met the enemy This person is actually the leader of the Silver Python Warrior Regiment who ambushed the two on the way to Yanjing, Philip "How could it be this guy" Char snorted and squinted his eyes: "He's a high-level samurai, isn't that silver python samurai regiment very famous, why did he come to play the preliminaries?"
Alfrecat gritted his teeth fiercely: "According to the strength of the Silver Python Warrior Regiment, he doesn't have to play the preliminaries."
However, he didn't participate in the first three sessions, but let his younger brother play, so calculating the past results, although his samurai regiment is famous, but in the individual competition, he has to start from the beginning to hum, or it is possible that he did it on purpose, after all, his brother defeated me in the last competition, which damaged their reputation, this time he made a comeback, and took advantage of the weakness of the opponent in the preliminaries, and fought 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, in his mid-thirties, armed with an iron shield in one hand and a long sword in the other.
Wearing a cowhide cuirass and regardless of strength, just from this outfit and equipment, everyone knows who is strong and who is weak.
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 upper body wrestlers next to the competition field reasonably slammed a heavy hammer on a giant round gong, and with a bang, the two of them quickly carried the giant gong and retreated from the side door.
Philip stood on the spot, his face was 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 there was no hidden dragon and crouching tiger in the preliminaries, but his large amount of gold coins had been scattered, bribing the people of the Chamber of Commerce who arranged the game, and he had already known the lottery process in his heart, at least before the main match, Alfrecat was not wrong all the way, 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 game, he had won four in a row, and one of them even killed a wind-type arrow-toothed beast on the spot, which was a mid-level demonic beast, and that game earned him enough fame, but others didn't know that the arrow-toothed beast that was fighting against him was poured a large vat of spirits mixed with anesthetic before the game glanced at the opponent, this opponent was inferior to himself too far from the equipment, the swords and shields in his hands were all ordinary goods, and the leather armor on his body was even more used in remote mercenary groups, even if he just parried and did not fight back, with his own high-grade silver armor, it was 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 a 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 the blade with a volley, and his fighting spirit was brilliant airplanes Philip took a step back, blocked the horizontal sword, and heard a clatter, the warrior stepped back, the blade in his hand was already missing a small mouth Philip laughed, deliberately flaunted, 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, under the silver armor and silver sword, his body was filled with a sacred and awe-inspiring momentum, and the audience who came to the stage 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 he ambushed himself, didn't seem to be so aggressive Alfrecat glanced at it and sneered: "He faked" "Falsifying vindictiveness can also be cheating," Char's eyes widened.
"There must be some kind of magic on his armor, this is illusion, using light to illuminate the light of the fighting spirit, it looks scary, in fact, hum, his brother used this method last year, before the competition, the momentum made the opponent afraid of a few points, and when the fight started, it was more advantageous to seize the lead.
It's just that his brother was still fucked down by me, hum, 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 see, Philip shouted, jumped up, his posture stretched out like a big bird, the action was really gorgeous and vigorous, people in the air, a sword fell, the blade on the blade of the sword was separated, and a fighting spirit of light cut down, 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 weaker and weaker, there was a gap in the original 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, but retreated again and again, left and right, ah a scream, a sword on the shoulder Philip deliberately flaunted, the sword turned around, snapped the shoulder strap of the opponent's breastplate, whew, The opponent's cuirass was picked up by him He stepped forward and kicked his opponent in the heart, and the warrior spurted blood from his mouth, flew backwards, fell to the ground and struggled for a while, and when he was about to stand up, Philip had already caught up, raised his long sword and slashed Sonorous The silver gorgeous light pressed the gray fighting aura of this opponent samurai almost invisible, and after a few consecutive splits, this samurai was already kneeling on the ground, unable to 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, I saw a high-level samurai with a silver fighting spirit, which was an extremely rare scene, and it seemed that this kind of master had always entered the main competition directly At this moment, the audience shouted one after another, many people shouted hard, picked up a handkerchief from under their seats and waved it vigorously, and some even had distorted expressions and shouted loudly: "Kill, 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".
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This is originally a bloody and cruel tradition, on the competitive stage, life and death are up to fate, although murder is not necessarily divided into life and death in every game, but according to the ancient rites, many times, if the surrounding audience unanimately waved a handkerchief and shouted to kill, then the following samurai could execute the opponent at the request of the audience, and there was no need to be prosecuted 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 was to build momentum, and the more people he killed, the bigger the sensation he caused In the midst of the shouting and killing voices around him, Philip sneered and looked down at the opponent who stepped on his feet, the samurai's heart was bright, his face was full of fear, and he shouted: "I admit defeat and rao" burst Before the samurai could finish his words of 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, and Philip bent down to grab the opponent's hair and pulled it hard burst Blood spurted wildly from 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, and these people came here to watch, just to seek the bloody stimulation of this sense, seeing the public murder and beheading, the bloody scene pierced the frenzy of the spectators more and more, countless people stood up and shouted at Philip frantically, and even on other stands, some people paid attention to the scene here, and jumped up and shouted and cheered.
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 applauded, 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 around lasted for about a minute, and two wrestlers came out of the side door to move out the gong, and just as the end gong was about to be sounded, 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, pointing downwards and upwards, signaling to the surrounding ring of stands This move immediately made the audience boil, and the roar and cheers almost overturned the buildings of the arena "Challenge, this is a challenge" Alfrecat and Char sat in the crowd, Alfrecat's eyes flashed, and his fists clenched: "This is the guy Gu Li of the competitive competition, it seems that he is desperate to become famous."
The shouting next to him was deafening, and Char frowned and asked loudly, "What does this challenge mean?"
Alfrecat shouted in Char's ear with his voice pulled: "That is, the winner has the right to demand that the game not end, and the competition 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, among the audience, if anyone thinks that he is not convinced by this winning samurai, he can immediately go down the challenge regardless of life or death, regardless of guilt, 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 a lot of martial artists in the stands to watch, so he actually made such a move in the preliminaries, a cunning bastard."
When Char heard this, he suddenly laughed wildly on his face.
"Hahahaha free challenge is very good this guy, I'm worried that I can't find him, and he is looking for his own death, so I 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 leaped up from the stands, and jumped into the battle platform below with a bang His sudden appearance, all of a sudden, the audience was crazy to watch this kind of game, there was such a dramatic scene, but it was the audience's most desired and longed, and 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, the buzzing sound was deafening, Char's action of jumping off the arena was not fancy, and after slamming it on the ground, the place where his feet landed suddenly slammed into a dirt pit Char wiped the dust on 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 would be no masters in the stands in this preliminary game, and there was no danger in doing some outrageous moves by himself, which caused the audience to cheer just now, and he was proud in his heart, and suddenly such a bad god fell from the sky Philip saw the person clearly, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart, where would he not remember that Xia Adam said that he was ambushed on the road, this madman intervened sideways and saved that Alfrecat, and when he fought with himself, this guy's martial arts were ridiculously strong, and he fought backwards if it wasn'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 forcibly killed the magician head, carrying the bloody head of the magician, and every time he remembered afterwards, all of which made 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.
"Well, what are you doing with such big eyes" 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 and come, little white face, obediently come over and let your Lord Char stab a few times" The wild shouts around him were like a tsunami, but at this moment, Philip still had a little smugness in his heart, and he couldn't wait to slap himself twice Staring at Char deadly, Philip's face turned blue and white, and finally gritted his teeth and burst out of his teeth: "You and 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."
To be continued 〗Hanyu Pinyin "" is simple and easy to remember: