673 Opening Match of the Fighting Arena Part 2 (2/2)

Overall, no one in the north of the city could be considered poor. The craftsmen earned at least one-hundred gold coins every year.

Even if Saleen charged each ticket at one gold coin a peice, the people in the north of the city would not hesitate to buy them. Saleen aimed to make this a long-term business, so he had to find a way to target the masses.

Saleen was invited up onto the elevated platform. There were eighteen seats on the platform and each seat could hold two people. These seats were filled by twelve Earls, four Dukes, Saleen, and Daniel.

Saleen and Daniel were present that day, but might not have too much time to watch the fights in the future.

Polo was a popular sport in Qin and there were huge arenas for that too. Those arenas were not as grand and could only seat around one-thousand to two-thousand people. An arena with fifty-thousand people was going to be deafening. If not for the fact that the noble families' seats had been specially designed by the mages, no-one would be able to socialize with each other.

There were a few magic arrays on Saleen's table and the one in the center was a sound transmission magic array. The greater the range in which the magic arrays would be used, the more magic nuclei would be used up. None of these magic arrays were offensive in nature. They were all low-level magic that was of support nature, their effective range was within the entire arena.

The number of magic nuclei that would be used up by these magic arrays was negligible to Saleen. Since these spells were all low-level, Saleen would not need to change the magic nuclei for two or three months if he used middle-grade ones.

Sika was not present today so Eleanor sat beside Saleen. Much of the arena was designed by her, so it was most appropriate for her to advise Saleen how to utilize it.

Daniel, who had been overseeing Metatrin City's daily matters, was seated beside Nicholas. Daniel and Saleen sat in the center of the noble families' seats. There was another row of seats that was curved in shape behind them and Saleen's bodyguards sat there. Instead of sitting, Nailisi stood behind Saleen. Beside her were three demons who would be at the service of Saleen and Eleanor.

The four Dukes were seated close together, but the Earls on both sides were slightly further apart. Nevertheless, the entire platform was designed so that it was still convenient for them to talk to one another.

Saleen began to converse with those around him since it was not time yet.

Eleanor was very thorough in explaining the arena to Saleen, including the small shops in the arena that were selling food and drinks. The arena also had two-hundred toilets and more than one-thousand lookout posts.

Saleen's position on the elevated platform was in the center of the control magic. Below the platform was the magic alchemy room that controled the entire arena. Tens of magic apprentices were hard at work there.

Saleen listened intently. He realized that there no discrepancies in all that Eleanor had explained. In the process of designing the arena, she even planned for the evacuation of fifty-thousand people in the event of a fire.

At two pm in the afternoon, a call of enthusiasm and vigor rang throughout the entire arena.

”Residents of Metatrin City, listen up, listen up. The very first match of the Metatrin fighting competition is about to begin. Let us now hear from the Lord of Metatrin City, Your Highness, Saleen!”

The entire arena became silent. Commoners were often silent when facing noble families out of a combination of fear and respect. In this case, it was especially so since the person speaking was the Lord of Metatrin City.

Saleen was already well-prepared. He turned on the sound transmission magic array and began the first speech he would give in a public setting in his life.

”My citizens…,” Saleen's opening was crafted by Eleanor. He paused for a while before continuing, ”Greetings to all of you. I, Saleen Metatrin, the King of this city and country, have started this fighting competition for only one reason. I need more talented people.”

The arena was eerily quiet. The entire seating area has been divided up into twenty-four sections. Once the grand magic array that controled the area below the platform opened up, no one would be able to hear each other.

”The Holy See has been launching attack after attack. Until now, there were still hundreds of warriors receiving treatment in the hospital. They may live, but they may also die from the damage caused by the Holy See's expedition. Metatrin City will never give in. We will find more warriors and mages to fight against their God's arrogance, bias, cruelty, and absurdity. This is why I need all of you! Right now, I am telling all of you that all of Luolan is close to falling, but Metatrin City will always stand tall. We will never give in we will take the fight all the way to the Glorious Plains.”

Saleen had yet to finish his speech before a group of people began to cheer from an unknown section.

”Long live Metatrin!”

”Never give in!”

The cheers and shouts were so loud that they drowned out Saleen's sound transmission magic array.