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Chapter 808: Chapter 808 – The Final Battle

Chapter 808: The Final Battle

Being one of the gladiators from outside of Rome city, Terufelos had naturally been discriminated against by the gladiators native to the city . Sartonilos, however, valued his strength a lot, and he even sent someone to convince him to join his plan . After a while, Sartonilos had to give up on him because he received no response . Hence, Terufelos did not participate in the assassination last night .

When Terufelos walked into the lounge in the early hours of the morning, he was shocked by the weird atmosphere . The atmosphere in the lounge had always been hostile . Ultimately, he knew that Sartonilos had been recruiting other gladiators to work on eliminating Zhang Heng . As usual, Zhang Heng calmly entered the lounge . If it were a day before, they would not have hesitated to draw their swords and fight each other . Terufelos could feel the tension in the atmosphere .

But today, the tense atmosphere was gone .

Terufelos was a little baffled . When he looked at Sartonilos, he saw that the latter was disappointed and nervous about something . He looked like a rookie that was about to enter the arena for the first time . From time to time, he would move around and touch the things around him .

‘What the hell is going on?’ Terufelos frowned . After the previous rounds of elimination, the only players left were the masterful elite gladiators . The climax of this gladiatorial show was about to happen soon . Trump cards of the respective arenas would fight against each other . Despite all that, it seemed Sartonilos was unprepared to fight his final battle . One could see that he was distracted .

And he was not the only one who behaved like that . A few more gladiators acted as such, too, including champions like Danaos and Aixoys . They looked weak and appeared to have not slept well the night before .

Zhang Heng, on the other hand, sat there all too calmly . Nothing appeared to have happened to him last night . To Terufelos, this nothing less but a herculean man . He had heard of Zhang Heng’s glorious battle records, and other than fighting the bison empty-handed, he had managed to end his battle almost instantly . So far, no one had been able to make more than ten moves against him . Being a renowned veteran gladiator, it made no sense to Terufelos that Sartonilos could’ve lost the courage to fight with Zhang Heng .

Yesterday, Sartonilos and others began distancing themselves from Zhang Heng because they were plotting against him . Now, Terufelos could feel that they must be avoiding him because they were afraid of him .

It was like the instinctive fear of a mouse meeting a cat .

Among them, Bach looked the worst . He and Zhang Heng had come from the same arena, but he too sat far away from him . And his face looked so pale as if no blood flowed within his veins . At the same time, he kept placing his right hand in front of his chest .

Terufelos could not figure out what had happened between them . In just one night, almost every gladiator in the lounge had changed for the worse . Suddenly, someone ran into his back . Before Terfufelos could say anything about it, the person seemed frightened, and he kept on apologizing .

When Terufelos turned around, he saw the swollen nose on Murkazan . He then asked in surprise, “What’s wrong with your face?”

“I, I… I fell . ” Murkazan insisted that what happened to him was an accident . Not only because he was afraid of Zhang Heng, but he also knew that if what they did yesterday was exposed, they would be severely punished by the authorities . Upon realizing that they were not strong enough to defeat their opponent, they decided to eliminate their opponents outside the arena . By doing that, it meant they were challenging the iron rule set by the show’s organizer . And the organizer of this gladiatorial show was the emperor of Rome .

This problem would not be their concern if Zhang Heng were dead . Unfortunately, Zhang Heng was not dead . Whenever Murkazan thought of what happened last night, he wanted to cry . Initially, he wanted to work with other gladiators to eliminate their biggest threat in this show . However, not only did they fail to deal with the threat, they now thought that they had messed with a god .

The incarnation of the gods in this world was an ancient legend . Other than the demigods, no human beings could apparently defeat such an entity .

“You fell down?” Terufelos’s gaze was filled with suspicion . “How many times did you have to fall before you knocked out half of your teeth?”

Murkazan was speechless and could only put on an embarrassing smile . Fortunately, this embarrassment did not last long . Soon, the crippled Slav, in charge of welcoming gladiators from various schools, walked in again . “Get ready . After the beastmaster’s performance is over, all of you will fight your final battle . ”

Terufelos nodded . He then raised the trident in his hand . “I’m ready to show you my strength,” he proclaimed .

Now that Zhang Heng was here, the other gladiators did not dare talk about claiming the championship . He was surprised that no one seemed affected by his positive spirit even after having said something encouraging and inspiring . Sartonilos and others were still half-dead . Terufelos started to wonder if they were weeping because their wives had died yesterday .

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However, no matter how unwilling Sartonilos and other gladiators were, they had no way of avoiding the final battle . Zhang Heng stood up from where he was sitting, and the time in the lounge paused for a second . After that, Zhang Heng picked up his two Persian swords .

“Everyone, see you in the arena . ”

Bach, on the other side, grinned and put on his helmet .

On the lift, the gladiators consciously left the middle position to Zhang Heng because they knew who the audience’s focus would be on today . Zhang Heng was probably the first gladiator who conquered the Amphitheatrum Flavium before the gladiatorial show was over .

The position next to Zhang Heng should have been reserved for Sartonilos, a promising candidate to win the championship himself . Other than Terufelos and Bach, who stood next to Zhang Heng, Sartonilos, Danaos, and others insisted on standing at the outermost area . And at the same time, they kept their eyes trained on Zhang Heng’s movements . They were so skittish to the point they seemed they would jump off an elevator to flee if Zhang Heng made a mode on them .

Although there were several lines of people between them and Zhang Heng, they still looked anxious .

Terufelos wanted to ask them if Zhang Heng could suddenly fly to them after standing so far away from him . And the next moment, the elevator began to rise . The slaves pulled the winches, sending the day’s protagonists from the gloomy underground to the arena .

The 90,000 seats in the Amphitheatrum Flavium were fully occupied, and the colorful satin on the poles fluttered in the wind, producing a pleasant sound . Throngs of people without tickets had also gathered outside the arena since early that morning, all there to witness the legend’s birth for the first time .

The entire city of Rome was empty on this day .

Not even when Sethnets was at his peak could bring out such a scene . And when the seventy-two gladiators finally appeared in the arena, the entire Amphitheatrum Flavium was flooded by the audience’s cheers .

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