Chapter 563 - A Rulers Karma (1/2)
Chapter 563 - A Ruler's Karma
”Ave Cesare, ladiators in unison towards the emperor A sentence that the participants were meant to roar when in the presence of the current ruler, and which could be translated in Daniel's language as, 'Hail Caesar, ho are about to die salute you' Their deterht, while their words exhibited their lack of fear towards death, and respect towards the ruler
The eside the rest of the crowd, noticed how one of the four gladiators had re the hts of an event, if the Eht to dictate whether the losing fighter would be spared from death, or executed on the spot This decision was usually swayed by the crowd, as these ga the populace from the empire's daily problems Yet, sometimes, it was solely based on the emperor's preference
To not honor the emperor after his arrival was a statement mostly made by prisoners of hich showed a lack of devotion towards their hters, if on the losing side, would rarely be spared from death
”You have found an unruly one” Said the editor to an embarrassed Cossus, who quickly looked back as his wife to find comfort What the aloof wife saw on her husband's face, however, were not the signs of restlessness, but a smile so wide that it threatened to rip the man's fat cheeks
Despite the editor's words, and the crowd's indignation, the eladiator at heart Instead, he raised his hand in a regal gesture, and uttered, ”Let the ga the ehters, as well as one of the two opposing gladiators with aphysique and equipe, while the other talked back into the entrance of the arena, and through the dark corridors
Once alone on stage, the battle between the tworoorandstands, the last inal position His tords lay crossed onto the stone slab he was sitting on, waiting to be held once again
The noise of cheering and gasping reached the gladiator's ears as if he was the one on stage, so clear that they caused hi on in the arena without being there to see it To focus while having to listen to this racket, he could iladiators, whose , and sladiator, uncomfortable with the unusual helmet, decided to take it off, but before his hands could touch its cold surface, the figure of a young woed from the darkness, and approached him In a few seconds, the swords were ladiator's side
”You will definitely win, right?” She asked with a silvery voice
Before the gladiator could even react to her presence, the young woentle motion, forced his head to turn in her direction Then, as the gladiator looked at her, her hand moved onto his chest
With a feladiator's skin in a seductive way She moved closer to him, and let her warm breath out towards the man's shoulder ”If you win, I'll let you join ht So we can-” She added as her hand moved lower, onto the man's abs and leather belt
The wo lower, but before it could reach her target, the woman suddenly stopped Her breath stopped in mid air, her hand frozen still, and her body paralyzed in space The gladiator pinched the woer and thumb, moved it away, then pushed her upper body off of hie
Unbothered by the woladiator resuinal posture, and listened to the roars of the croith closed eyes
Based on the crowd's reaction, which alternated between cheers and shocked gasps, the winner of the battle was not too obvious The two fighters, massive in stature and equipped for ere evenlyone powerful blow after another, grinding at each other's endurance like waves eroding a cliff No blow too powerful to break the other's defence, nor cut deep enough to incapacitate the other
While evenly matched, however, this battle of attrition was bound to cohters would inevitably cave in Predictably, after what felt like an eternity for the spectators, the cheering reached an all-tie, kneeling onto the layer of yellowish sand, was Cossus' fighter With a pained expression hidden by his large hele shi+eld, which he had planted into the ground in an atte His right arushed large around several ht
His opponent was not in much better condition The equal nu indicated that the battle hadn't had a clear winner until the very end, where the , yet non-lethal blow, securing the victory for his school, and a hefty suladiator, now too injured to fight, did not raise his hands in submission-Instead, he went down on both knees He then reround, and with the little strength he had left, he threw it away before showing his neck to his opponent