Cataclysm King

Chapter 533: The beginning of a slave rebellion sweeping across the southern continent

The Livestock Street, two streets away from the Central Arena, is the largest meat and livestock trading market and the largest slave market in the Giant City.

When Ji Xun came over, the slave market was crowded with people.

The main buildings in the entire block are shabby shanties, and the air is filled with a faint stench of feces and urine.

Ever since the dead dragon Marodis returned from the underworld, triggering a war between the metallic dragons and the chromatic dragons, the slave market in the entire southern continent has suddenly become hot.

This "King of Gladiators Challenge" is also a feast for the slave owners.

The event attracted a large number of noble lords from all over the empire to watch the game, and they also needed to buy strong slaves to participate in the war.

This also added fuel to the slave trade.

A large number of war slaves were transported to the Giant City. At this moment, the shanties on both sides of the Livestock Street were filled with slaves of all skin colors.

The male slaves only wore a crotch cloth, and the female slaves were mostly topless, like livestock for sale for buyers to choose.

Extraordinary slaves wore slave collars, while ordinary slaves were locked with iron chains and hemp ropes.

Ji Xun walked on the street and saw nobles dressed in twos and threes everywhere. They covered their noses to dislike the bad smell of the slave market, while enthusiastically selecting the slaves they liked.

There were also some buyers from ordinary wealthy families on the street, who came to choose laborers or servants to work on their farms.

Ordinary pure-blooded human slaves are the cheapest, and you can buy a good-looking female slave for just a few gold coins.

Male slaves who can do physical work are slightly more expensive.

However, extraordinary slaves are expensive, and the higher their rank, the higher the price.

For example, the price of high-level slaves above level three starts at tens of thousands of gold coins.

A war requires the consumption of tens of thousands of slaves, and it is purely a competition of money.

Therefore, the prisoners captured on the battlefield were top-quality war slaves.

This is also the most popular product recently.

"Boss, do you want to buy some slaves? These girls are maids from a small noble family in Ximas County. They are literate, familiar with aristocratic etiquette, and are of childbearing age. They are very suitable maids."

"These are apprentice knights from Elres. Oh, they are stronger than bulls, and a few of them can do the work of an entire farm. Of course, they are also good as guards."

"These are the Seres people, descendants of an ancient royal family. They are the best 'breeding material' and have a high chance of giving birth to high-purity dragon blood offspring."

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Ji Xun walked and looked along the way, and the slave traders were also enthusiastically selling their goods.

The samples on display were all top quality, the female slaves were of excellent appearance and figure, and the male slaves were all strong and tall.

Ji Xun walked around the street and saw many new slaves who were obviously captured on the battlefield.

They were covered in scars, but there was still the pride and unwillingness of a knight in their eyes, which was completely different from the numb eyes of the old slaves.

Ji Xun had inquired about the intelligence. The "Blue Knight" Cornabos, who was suspected to be the body of the Lord of War, was a Seres man with a natural fighting bloodline and the famous Grand Knight of the Blue Cross Legion. Later, because the lord to whom the legion was loyal was defeated and surrendered, all the people in the legion became war slaves.

It is said that the price offered by the Chamber of Commerce this time is that if he can win the championship of the King of Fighters, he and his old friends will be pardoned and regain their civilian status.

But the reality was that his fellow Blue Cross Legion members had long been sold at a high price by slave traders and had all died tragically.

The seeds of revenge have been sown.

It just happened to match some fragmentary intelligence that Ji Xun had obtained in the black market. It was said that someone was plotting to rob the prison in Juling City.
In Ji Xun's eyes, the entire causal chain of this incident was complete.

It was buried a long time ago, and only gradually emerged today, a long time later.

Moreover, the Ceres were the royal family of the Alterac civilization more than 100,000 years ago. Now their former emperor, the dragon god Malodius, has returned. This is enough reason for a riot.

Moreover, whenever there is a riot, class contradictions will inevitably intensify.

The cruel slavery in the southern continent and this contradiction have long been irreconcilable.

Especially those war slaves who were about to be sent to the battlefield, there was a complex and extremely repressed emotion in their eyes.

Ji Xun's clown mask allows him to keenly capture all kinds of negative emotions.

He just took a walk around the slave market and felt the strong negative emotions.

It was like the terrifying pressure accumulated before a volcano erupted. Even before the eruption, people could already sense the dangerous aura of destruction.

However, because the war slaves had explosive collars around their necks, these tens of thousands of slaves in the slave market were unable to cause trouble.

This kind of contradiction exists not only in Giant Spirit City, but in almost every city in the southern continent.

If someone could really untie the collars on the slaves' necks and had some weapons, it would inevitably cause a huge riot that would spread like wildfire.

As Ji Xun walked, he deduced many scenes in his mind.

He saw a riot that had been planned for a long time, truly brewing.

Before I knew it, I had arrived at the alley behind the main street.

This is the "storage warehouse" of slave traders, and the stench is even worse than that of the main street.

Ji Xun walked in and saw the small warehouse filled with naked slaves.

The room was so crowded that the slaves had just enough space to sit down, and urine and feces were piled up in the warehouse.

Ji Xun hid in the shadows, completely avoiding the sight of the patrol officers.

He walked to the slave warehouse of the Rainbow Chamber of Commerce and soon saw the dark-skinned David in a warehouse that accommodated a thousand people.

After finding the person, Ji Xun did not rush to take action.

He watched carefully.

The supervisor in charge of the slaves was drunk in a room not far away, with the rune key that could unlock the collars of the warehouses casually hanging around his waist.
There is also a warehouse full of armor and weapons in the warehouse. This was originally the armor prepared for patrol personnel. As long as the door is broken, those weapons can be easily obtained and an elite team can be armed.
When Ji Xun saw this, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

It's like someone has already written the script and is just waiting for the actors to appear on stage.

Ji Xun knew that they were never the protagonists of this riot.

He is waiting.

Waiting for the movement over at the Colosseum.

On the other side, the central duel arena.

It was already evening when the gladiatorial contest ended today, and the city was lit up with dim lights representing the night.

In the prison, Gong Wu's outstanding performance of defeating the enemy with one move today not only did not bring him any special attention from the slave owner, but instead two more thick iron chains were added to his body.

The servant who brought the food placed a large bucket of liquid food in front of him using an iron chain.

Gong Wu didn't even glance at it.

This amount of food is simply not enough to meet the daily consumption of a seventh-level card master, but this is the food he has these days.

A hungry gladiator would most likely face death in the arena.

Those guys have tried every possible means to make me surrender.

At the door, the manager's tone was getting impatient: "I'll give you one last chance. If you agree to cooperate in the competition the day after tomorrow, the conditions I mentioned before will remain the same."

Gong Wu listened expressionlessly. He just counted silently in his mind, calculating the time.

Ji Xun came here before and talked about the problems with this gladiatorial contest.

Gong Wu also knew that no matter whether he agreed or not, the organizer would not let him win the game.

The "Blue Knight" Cornopus will definitely become the champion unexpectedly.

Gong Wu also learned about the Outer God Monliod, Lord of War for the first time, and knew that his future opponent would be the one chosen by God.

At this moment, the steward outside the iron gate shouted angrily: "Are you listening to me?!"

Originally, this guy thought that he would not get any response as usual, but unexpectedly, the old man suddenly stood up.

But not in response to him.

Gong Wu said to himself: "The time has come. I wanted to have a good fight with that guy on the field."

The only thing he was looking forward to in this gladiatorial contest was the final.

What a pity, such a unfair game completely lost the interest.

In that case, let’s go have a fight now!

As soon as this thought came to his mind, Gong Wu's eyes became stern and the energy in his body began to burn like flames.

The manager outside the door was so frightened that he almost sat down on the ground, staring with wide eyes and pointing, "What are you doing!"

These top-level slave collars are specially made, with "magic-forbidden runes" engraved on them. Except for competitions, they are not allowed to be opened on weekdays.

Now Gong Wu suddenly got angry, which of course scared the manager.

However, Gong Wu ignored the guy outside and untied the slave collar around his neck. After the outburst, his restrained muscles instantly filled up.

With a sudden force, the chains that bound his hands broke with a loud "bang".

Then I heard "bang", "bang", "bang". The sound of steel breaking was heard.

Gong Wu broke free from his restraints and walked out of the prison step by step.

With every step he took, his momentum grew.

He walked to the iron gate, raised his hand, gathered his energy, and then punched out.

"Oh!"

The force of the fist spurted out like a broken dam, and the twisted and deformed iron door flew dozens of meters away and embedded in the opposite wall.

Amid the ashes, Gong Wu walked out like a demon.

At this moment, the aura emanating from him was even more terrifying than in previous matches.

The manager at the door was so scared that he collapsed to the ground, not realizing that his crotch was wet.

Gong Wu ignored it completely, identified the direction of the air, and walked straight towards cabin number seven.

The guards who came rushing over after hearing the noise wanted to stop them, but they only heard the dull thud of fists like knocking on a mountain, and the guard team flew backwards in groups.

Gong Wu had no intention of escaping, nor did he intend to bother with these minions.

Soon, he reached Cabin No. 7, which was on the next floor, and came to the iron bars of the prison.

In the prison, the man as strong as a lion also raised his head.

Seeing Gong Wu, he grinned.

Gong Wu flicked the slave collar key in his hand and said, "Come on! Let's have a fight!"

Hearing this, Digios' blood started to stir. He smiled heartily and said, "Okay!"

It is a rare blessing for both sides to meet such an opponent.

Without any words, the momentum of the two strong men instantly exploded to the extreme.

Outside the central arena, there were still many people wandering around the square.

Suddenly, everyone seemed to feel two terrifying auras rising up, and even the magical beasts within miles around were frightened and became restless.

No one knew what happened, but it seemed as if they heard the sound of fierce fighting.

Suddenly, without any warning, a corner of the central arena collapsed.

Two figures rushed out from the ruins and started fighting in the center of the arena.

The sudden change instantly attracted the attention of thousands of people around.

Most of these people came for the King of Gladiators competition. When they saw this scene, instead of being frightened and scattering, they started pointing and talking excitedly.

The black flame-like aura was too conspicuous, and almost everyone recognized Gong Wu's identity at the first moment.

"Look, it's the Eastern Wasteland Qigong Master who defeated the "Black Sword" Malikus with one move today!"

"This energy is too exaggerated. Why does it feel stronger than in the afternoon? Also, who on earth could have forced that old man to fight to his death?"

"Hey, isn't that the Blue Knight Konabos? How could this guy be so strong?"

"Oh my goodness, I thought that the Eastern Wasteland Qigong Master had already secured the title of 'King of Gladiators' this time, but I didn't expect there was such a strong man hidden among the gladiators. The fighting power of these two people is probably not weaker than that of an eighth-level strongman."

"The previous favorites to win the championship are not even on the same level as these two. Damn, the bookmaker is preparing to kill the game unexpectedly! Fuck you, give me your money back!"

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The battle has become unusually unraveling since it came into the public eye.

This was more intense than any game today.

Now everyone can see clearly,

In the afternoon match where "Blue Knight" Cornopus defeated "Silver-Eyed Tyrannosaurus" Rhine, he obviously concealed his strength.

The match where Gong Wu defeated the "Black Sword" Malicus with one move was another crushing victory. It was an amazing experience, but it was not exciting at all.

The essence is that the gap in strength between the two contestants and other gladiators is too big.

And now, when two strong men who really have the ability to win the championship take action, a truly evenly matched and fierce battle will be staged.

The fist force took shape and filled the sky.

The central arena built with huge stone slabs collapsed in large sections under the terrifying aggression of the two men.

The shock wave alone swept across an area of ​​several miles, with sand and rocks flying everywhere, and a feeling of the earth shaking like an earthquake.

However, instead of being scared away, more and more people came to inquire, gathered around and watched this amazing battle.

And the other side.

The dignitaries of the United Chamber of Commerce were also the first to know about the changes in the arena.

There have been incidents of gladiators escaping from their cells in the past, but without exception, those guys would try to escape as quietly as possible.

However, this time it was completely different.

Not only did these two guys not run away, but they started fighting?
The managers of the chambers of commerce were shocked and filled with hatred.

The originally planned finals will now be held ahead of schedule, which will cause the United Chamber of Commerce to suffer heavy losses!

They originally wanted to break up the fight.

However, when we asked even the eighth-rank guard commanders, their expressions were all very ugly.

Looking at the postures of these two people in front of him, how can an ordinary eighth-level warrior have the confidence that he can win?
If we really want to stop them, three or five eighth-level masters may not be able to control the situation.

Moreover, even if they were to stop the fight now, it is unclear whether they could control the two gladiators. Even if they did, if there was no upset in the final, their hopes of making money from the fight would have been dashed.

The battle became more and more intense under the attention of everyone.

It seemed as if the entire Giant City had become the stage for the two of them, and countless people witnessed this legendary battle.

On the other side, Ji Xun and Qin Rushi had of course already found a good spot and started watching.

This level of battle is a rare experience for both of them.

Because it was expected, both of them were very relaxed.

Qin Rushi's eyes reflected the fiercely intertwined figures of the two people in the sky, and she saw more details than others. She sighed: "The Seres man has the divine power of the Lord of War and is invulnerable to swords and guns. He also has the luck blessing of the [War Commander], so he will never be defeated. I didn't expect that Senior Gong Wu would not be inferior at all. The Mirror of the Martial Saint is really powerful."

Ji Xun listened and nodded in agreement: "Yes. The old man's realm is really outrageous. Senior Griffith once told me that the holy realm that can only be touched by the ninth level, this old man has touched the peak of the seventh level."

He is worthy of being the martial arts genius that has not been seen in the Eastern Wilds for thousands of years, and worthy of being called "the number one martial artist in the Eastern Wilds."

At that time, Gong Wu was able to comprehend the "divine power" by relying on his own exploration without any guidance from anyone or any book.

This is enough to show talent.

Now that he has entered the holy land, Ji Xun feels that it is reasonable.

Thinking of something, he smiled and said, "Perhaps in the history books for many years to come, it will be recorded that the slave rebellion in the southern continent that originated in the Giant Spirit City was triggered by the competition between two gladiators."

Qin Rushi smiled and replied, "Yes."

That feeling is very subtle
They have always read epics, and from those epics, they have seen the names of legendary figures;
However, one day, I suddenly realized that I had unknowingly become a character in the epic who could leave a few words.

Especially at their level.

This kind of perception has become a kind of historical context, like the law that governs the operation of the world.

The two men watched the battle intently.

Suddenly, a fierce fight broke out two blocks away from the fighting arena.

Qin Rushi glanced sideways: "Has it started?"

Ji Xun nodded: "Yeah."

Although it was not surprising, Qin Rushi was still very curious when she saw it because she hadn't had time to ask in detail: "How did you do it?"

"not me."

Ji Xun shook his head, his eyes gradually deepened, and said: "It was just this duel that made those guys start the rebellion in advance. The Rainbow Chamber of Commerce is not even the mastermind. Many war slaves of the Blue Cross Legion have already sneaked into the city. They are the main force of the riot."

As soon as he finished speaking, like dominoes, the sounds of fierce fighting rang out from all directions in the city.

Ji Xun also stood up and said with a smile, "Aunt Qin, let's go too. It's time to redeem our lottery tickets now."

(End of this chapter)