Chapter 760

Marcus reappeared on the balcony on the second floor 49 days later. This time, he was accompanied by two female slaves, a Persian and a Parthian, who served him and sat in the chair.

But Marcus doesn't seem to be happy, because the attendance rate of the arena has declined again in the past two months, and he has to increase the number of appearances of habitus, which has slightly saved the audience. However, the greedy habitus also takes the opportunity to ask him for more shares and the promise of training as a school ace.

On the other hand, Marcus also heard the news from the front line. It is said that the new emperor of the Empire, Commaud, seems to have no intention to take over the stand left by his father Aurelius and is preparing to make peace with those Germanic people. This is not good news for Marcus, because the source of his gladiators is also a very important part of the prisoners of war, especially the high-level gladiators They were all selected from the prisoners of war, and now he is busy looking for the successor of sisnatus, so Marcus can only place his hopes on Bach.

In addition, according to the Convention, the new emperor will hold a grand Gladiator performance when he ascends the throne. In order to win the favor of the people, the performance is free. The performance venue is Flavian amphitheater, the largest arena of the whole Roman Empire, which was built by the royal family with 80000 slaves and took eight years to build, and can accommodate 90000 spectators at most Considering its age, we have to say that this arena is a miracle in the history of architecture.

However, it is obviously impossible to have an arena without gladiators. The latter is the highlight of this performance.

Although the royal family also has a gladiator school, its scale is not large enough to support a grand performance, which requires several private Gladiator schools. Of course, it is not free. After all, gladiators are known as expensive consumables. However, because the performance is used to win the hearts of the people, it does not have any income, so the cost is very high It's up to the organizers.

Of course, it's not easy to ask for money from the common people.

If you want less, Marcus will lose a lot. If you want more, if you offend some big man or his majesty, he will never want to stay in Rome again. Therefore, in general, Marcus will choose a small loss. He will not only sell his favor, but also lose too much blood.

But anyway, it's a worry after all.

Marcus came to inspect the goods with his troubles and dissatisfaction with the new emperor. He spent a lot of money on these slaves, and he had to know whether it was worth it.

The order of the fight is also drawn out by drawing lots. Gaby began to organize this assessment after a respectful salute to Marcus.

The fighting rules are similar to the usual Gladiator performance, except that wooden weapons are used. In the one-to-one confrontation, each Gladiator can only use one weapon. Sneak attack behind his back will be despised by the audience. Once one side admits defeat, the other side can no longer attack. In addition, there will be a trainer as the referee.

After confirming that everyone understood the rules, Gabby began to call the roll.

The first couple who came to power was a free man Gladiator named Griff. He was lucky. His opponent was a young man who had just become a gladiator for half a year. He was younger than him and had not rich fighting experience. But in the end, the young Gladiator won. However, they fought for a long time and Griff was caught by the other side Live a flaw and end the battle.

Gaby commented, "attention is not enough. It's OK some time ago, but the more you think about it later, and the attack is not decisive enough. It's a good thing to be cautious. But sometimes the situation on the field requires you to make a quick decision. Even the wrong decision is probably better than hesitation."

Griff's face was a little depressed when he heard this. He knew that Gaby was telling the truth, because he was a new man, and this was the final assessment that determined his fate. It was hard to avoid thinking too much. Sometimes when he saw the other side's flaws, he hesitated whether it would be a trap and missed a lot of opportunities.

But Gaby may be to see that he can fight with the opponent back and forth for so long, and finally spit out the two words, "qualified."

Griff's face suddenly turned to joy, and Gaby didn't say anything more, so he asked him to stay in the west room.

Griff is closely followed by a slave named Galata, whose opponent is a little-known Gladiator with three years of combat experience. If Griff is cautious, Galata's performance is like a close enemy.

As soon as the opponent started, he couldn't help but step back. Gaby frowned at his fearing performance. Fortunately, Galata soon realized that his action just now was reducing points, but then he made a big mistake. In order to make up for his poor performance, he changed his defensive position and began to attack carelessly.

However, his opponent is acutely aware of the flaws in his attack, and cleanly evades Galata's attack. Then he puts his training sword on the latter's neck. It doesn't take much effort to win the battle. Galata's face turns pale.He looked at Gaby with almost pleading eyes, but the latter was not moved. He said in an emotionless voice, "the choice of battle is bad, rough and rash, the ability to deal with emergencies on the spot is not as good as a pig, unqualified, the east room."

"Please give me another chance for my hard training before. I'm not ready this time. Next time, I won't make such a mistake again," gellata pleaded. Of course, he knows what the East Room means, especially the other free men who don't pass the examination can only go to mine.

"But death never gives you a second chance, son." Gaby said coldly, then he winked, and two trainers pulled getara away, who had almost collapsed on the ground.

On the second floor, Marcus didn't say a word from beginning to end. He was eating a fig peeled by a slave girl.

He didn't have much interest in the previous battles. Bach was the only one he really cared about among so many people, because it was the deadline he had agreed with Gaby. He wanted to see how the successor of sisnatus was trained by Gaby, but Bach's fight was arranged very late, and Marcus had to wait patiently.

Gaby said again after Galata was dragged down.

"Zhang Heng, Galba, it's your turn."

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