Chapter 278: Coliseum

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Chapter 278: Coliseum

"So our world had six gods at the beginning and that included the God of Fire. The only reason why this is important for the story of the Coliseum is because all the gods other than the God of Fire have the same origin world and knew each other before they ascended." Hearing how deep the Temple Head was about to go, Lake got ready to finally understand what was going on in this world a bit more.

"They originally had another god of fire that was meant for this position but something happened and they had to find another." Hearing she was being vague all of a sudden He asked. "What does something mean?"

"I don't know, the God of Light didn't say what happened. I'm sure whatever you're guessing is pretty close to what happened though." Lake had guessed that the other God of Fire had been killed or something just based off of what went on in this world's history. Tragedy seemed to be ingrained in almost every story he had heard. "Please continue."

Lake had accidentally made the Temple Head stop talking by asking a question so he told her to keep going to snap her out of whatever she had started to think about. "Well after some searching they eventually found our God of Fire who was alone and looking to join a group of gods to ascend with and they decided they could work together."

Lake could tell by the way the Temple Head had said the last part that this was going to be some type of mistake. "Everything was fine between the six original gods until it came time to actually start moving people to this world. The god of fire wanted to bring some of the people from their world which the other gods eventually agreed to and those people brought the Coliseum."

The last sentence kind of made it seem like the Temple Head had skipped a lot of stuff that had happened and he was about to ask her if she was done when she started to talk again. "It was an old custom from the world of the God of Fire so the other gods allowed it to happen even though it didn't really line up with the original vision of their world and that brings us to where the demons came from."

Lake wanted to ask for a bit more information about what the Coliseum did but he had learned that if he asked a question in the middle of her talking it would kind of derail what she was trying to say so he stayed silent. "As I'm sure you know every god has their own race that represents their element or at least they eventually do."

"I think so, why?" Lake had been being paranoid so he just told the temple Head what he was thinking. "I just wanted to know because of the group we just passed. I figured if we were there was a good chance those people would have attacked us if they had noticed us."

"There are normal people out here as well and those people looked like they were probably here to stop any bandits that might have been using that road. The way they had the fire set made it look like they were trying to act like clueless travelers while their gear made it look like they were probably here for a fight."

Lake memorized this method of drawing in bandits for the future since they were still one of the best sources of Exp he had found and switched the conversation back to the Coliseum by asking. "So if we hadn't saved Tiffany what would have happened to her in the hands of the Coliseum."

"They would have probably made her fight but they might have also had a deal to give her to another group in exchange for something. There's really no way to know just yet until I send people to investigate." Lake had a few other things he wanted to ask about why it had been Tiffany again but decided to just directly ask about the fighting thing.

"So is that what they do? They kidnap people and make them fight in the Coliseum." It made sense for a group with that name but he didn't see the point. "They say there's more to what they do but essentially yes they just make prisoners fight and sell tickets."

"Do non-prisoners fight as well?" Lake was guessing the answer would be yes since they tried to make it sound like they had actual reasons to keep the Coliseum going but he wanted to know if maybe they were just putting on a bloodshow to make money. "I've heard there are private shows for members of the Coliseum sometimes where members settle feuds but I don't know if they're to death like the ones between prisoners."

With this all there was left for him to ask about was what he had originally shown up at the temple for. "The group that's going to the Metal Domain, have they left yet?"

"I don't know, they hadn't when we left but it's been a few hours already so there's a good chance they went to meet up with the other groups and headed for the Metal Domain." Lake was happy to know he had gotten Helian there in time and hadn't just left her in a place where she wouldn't be helpful.

He could already picture the Metal Temple Head's confused face once he learned that he had somehow failed to get her to the people that would be bringing down the barrier. It would kind of make him look like he had a good chance of failing any task you gave him and that wasn't really the type of person that you paid a lot.