Chapter 44 Chapter Forty-Three

More carriages rolled into the Colosseum from all directions.Inside the cages were prisoners who were handcuffed like us.But most of them were like the people in our car, delirious, thin and short.They are like a group of stunted low-level goblins, trapped in a cage and screaming, making a final cry for their miserable fate. "This is the Avalon Wonderland you've been expecting." D glanced at me. I swallowed my saliva, and before I could speak, a goblin ran out screaming not far away, who had just been driven off the carriage next door.He screamed heart-piercingly and tried to run away.But a few steps away, a guard immediately threw a spear.The spear pierced the running goblin, knocking his whole slender body flying, and then stuck obliquely in the sand like a piece of meat pierced on a fork.The blood soared far away, and some even splashed onto the auditorium behind.

There was a burst of thunderous cheers in the audience.People got excited, and some even threw daggers, coins or stones and various hard objects they carried with them, and threw them desperately at the prisoners in the venue.The prisoners in shackles fled in all directions, and some who ran slowly were directly stabbed by the soldiers with spears, and blood gushed out, which made the onlookers even more jubilant. In the center of the arena stood countless towering thin wooden stakes, the tips of which were as sharp as needles.The little goblins who were not completely dead were picked up by the soldiers and poked on the wooden stakes one by one.They screamed in pain, their frail bodies twisted desperately, their limbs danced in the air, and then gradually slowed down the frequency, and finally they rolled their eyes and died like this.Long after they were dead, the blood still trickled down the stake, and slowly, slowly, soaked the dry sand below.

I gasped, and Emily screamed in terror again. D's eyes were quick, and he quickly covered her mouth before she could pay attention. Just then a soldier approached the carriage we were in.The goblins in the car began to howl desperately. Immediately afterwards, the door of the wooden cage was opened. One by one, we stumbled out of the carriage and onto the blood-red sand of the arena.It was soft to the touch underfoot, but there were large, dark stains proving that someone had died here not long ago.Just like the sand under the stake, here a large expanse of sand is also dyed purple.I swallowed again, trying to calm my confused mind.

"What shall we do now?" I whispered. "Don't leave my side." D answered me simply, "Try to keep yourself alive." The shackles on our hands were broken.A mermaid soldier pointed behind us.I turned around wonderingly, and saw some simple weapons poking randomly on the sand behind me, mostly blunt swords and the like, I was a little puzzled. "Aren't they going to kill us?" I asked D, frowning. "Of course they intend to kill us. But this is a warlike race, and they want to see fights in the arena." D answered me, "Take your weapons and don't leave my side."

"Lost hope is always more frightening than complete despair." Xiao S added leisurely beside her. D glanced at him, "Don't leave my side." He emphasized again. He took a sword.The largest and heaviest sword in the arsenal was as light as a feather in his hand.In my dream, I saw him use his sword to defend us against the attacks of snakes in the desert.But that was just a dream after all.I don't know if he's really good at it—but even if he were the best swordsman in the world, he couldn't protect all three of us at the same time. Little S is right, in fact, sporadic hope is more frightening than despair, because when this little bit of hope is slowly wiped out, all that remains is more thorough death.

Death beyond redemption. Under the dazzling light, the low-pitched horn of the arena was sounded again, and the noise from the auditorium shook the heavens and the earth.The cheers made my head buzz, and I stood stupidly in the sand next to D, holding a short knife.The light hurt my eyes, I heard Emily's voiceless scream, I heard Xiao S's scream, and the wind from the sword beside my ear, but I couldn't see anything.A piece of golden gravel was blown up by the wind, like a soft veil, covering the whole world in an instant, covering all the blood and killings in the arena.I heard the sound of someone running beside me, and I saw the shell-shaped armor on the mermaid soldier's body shining brightly. My ears were cold, and an arrow flew close to my cheek.I wiped my face and saw the blood on the back of my hand, and a few strands of long hair falling on the sandy ground under my feet.

"Odelle!" I heard a familiar voice yelling into my ear, "Stay with me!" I was startled and turned around.The brilliant water waves were turbulent, and I saw that person standing in a field full of killings, holding an epee, majestic and majestic, ruling the world.His hair is all messed up, his clothes are in a mess, he stands with a sword and fights in blood, for him, for me.His shoulder was wounded, and two arrows were lodged deep in his left shoulder.The two arrow clusters with the fishtail logo are exactly the same as the arrow that just scratched my cheek. I screamed out in shock, but he directly reached out and grabbed the two arrow clusters, and then pulled them out fiercely!The blood soared far away, and his shoulders were bloody and bloody, but he didn't even frown.He has no time.He swung his sword to block the spear stabbing at me from the side, and shouted at me again: "Concentrate! Follow me!"

I took a deep breath and followed him closely.I saw that the little goblins who came with us were already covered in dead bodies, and Xiao S and Emily were also covered in blood. They stood back to back beside us, and their hands had been cut in two. The blunt sword was about to fail. Another mermaid soldier suddenly launched a sneak attack on us.Xiao S waved his hand and tried to block the opponent's knife, but his arm was not strong enough.The strength of these soldiers is too great, each of them is as brave and good at fighting as the ancient Roman warriors, and each of them is much higher than us.Seeing that the blade almost landed on top of his head, D rushed over, without hesitation, cut off the opponent's hand holding the knife with a sword, and the long knife grazed Xiao S's neck and escaped into the sand next to him, he blinked Eyes, still in shock.Immediately afterwards, D added another sword, and the opponent's soldier was decapitated.

I don't know how many mermaid soldiers he killed.Waves of shouts erupted from the onlookers, and all the bloody and aggressive emotions of this race were aroused. They waved their flags excitedly, not only for the mermaid soldiers, but also for D.They want to see killing and bloodshed, they want to see the most exciting fight, how this brave alien swordsman stupidly sacrifices the safety of the companions he tried to protect. I looked up at him, covered in blood, standing under the most dazzling light of the arena, like a dark knight from hell, like a golden god of war. Suddenly the horn was sounded again.

At this moment, apart from the few of us, there was no living prisoner on the field. The horn sounded, and the remaining mermaid soldiers stopped fighting immediately.They quickly dragged the dead man's body out of the arena, and there were only four of us left in the arena. I was not allowed to ponder exactly what happened because the results were immediately revealed. The retreating mermaid soldiers made way, and amidst deafening cheers, the guard who had captured us before came out more and more. He was tall and slender, with iron muscles, a razor-sharp face, and a healthy olive-colored skin.His hair at the temples was all shaved, leaving only the middle part, with an obvious exotic style. The short dark hair was braided into countless thin braids and combined into a bunch at the back of his head.

He walked into the field and stood about three meters away from us.He stretched out his hand and unfastened the gold buckle on his chest with a click. The long cloak behind him fell down in an uproar, revealing his strong chest. I saw shell-like scales slowly grow out of his bare left arm under the dazzling light. It gradually formed the shape of a shield, connected with the scales protruding from his shoulders, and then extended downwards, and finally the back and waist were completely connected together, forming a solid set of armor, which shone like a rainbow under the strong light. "Cetus! Cetus! Cetus!" It was as if water had been poured directly into a boiling oil pan, and the entire auditorium erupted in an instant. All the audience stood up and went crazy Shouting the name. The guard stretched out an arm that was also covered in armor, and took a trident from the soldier beside him.Most mermaid soldiers in the arena use single-handled spears as weapons, but he uses a trident, which symbolizes Poseidon, the god of the sea.Like most buildings in the city, the body of the halberd is decorated with intricate vine curly leaf carvings, surrounded by three sharp points of different heights on the top, like three sharp swords straight to the sky.The guard raised the trident high and nodded to all the audience in the arena. Then he took a step towards us. "My name is Setus." His eyes looked at D, "The warm-up game is over, and I will be your opponent next."