Chapter 81 The Arenas of Hillfor (1/2)
”Just how big is this city?”
Darkfire groaned in frustration, and Arran feltthe city's seely endless streets, and yet, Arran knew that they had barely seen a fraction of it
”Let's find a decent inn first,” Arran said ”After that, we can take our ti the city”
They decided on an inn nae and fairly clean, it was more expensive than most inns they had found so far, with a crowd of uards, and Shadowflame hopefuls that filled most inns
Unconcerned with cost — he already had enough gold to last a lifetiest rooms in the inn, then paid some more for clean bedsheets
After they settled in, they headed back down to the common room, where they approached the innkeeper As soon as he spotted theer to see more of their coin
”Do you knohere we can find the arena?” Arran asked hiet recruited?” The innkeeper's smile disappeared al it Apparently, he preferred hters
”We are,” Darkfire replied curtly ”So can you tell us?”
”There's four arenas in the city,” the man answered ”One in each of the northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters of the city There's fights every day, as well as monthly tournaments”
”Every day?” Arran asked, surprised Even for a city this large, having four arenas with daily fights seehed ”There's no shortage of Shadowflaamblers to support them”
”Any difference between the arenas?” Even if the innkeeper seemed annoyed with the subject, Arran still hoped he could at least learn so,” the innkeeper replied ”You see one, you've seen 'em all”
With that, the innkeeper turned and left to tend on so in the common room Arran could not help but be puzzled at the hters, one would expect he would at least like gold
”Friendly fellow, that” Darkfire gave Arran a smirk ”So you take north, and I take south?”
”You want to split up?”
”Noteach other”
The idea made sense If each of them took an arena, they should be able to rack up wins easy enough, with little chance of being defeated
”All right,” Arran said In a lower voice, he added, ”Just remember to hold back a bit — we don't want to draw too ain later that night, then left iainst new opponents
Finding the northern arena took Arran longer than he would have liked Although the arena was supposed to be only an hour's walk from the inn, Hillfort's narrow streets made it almost impossible to find his way, and he had to ask for directions at least half a dozen times
When he eventually found the arena, he was amazed at its size While the arena in Erelorified practice field, this one was large and i out over the fights
”Entry's one copper,” a htly shabby uniforht,” Arran responded
”You?” Although the h ”Go to the back, they'll tell you what to do”
As Arran walked to the back of the arena, he threw a glance at the fight in progress, seeing a burly bald-headed man face a lanky youth In a , and he was defeated in just a fes