Warhammer 40: Gods Of Mortals

Chapter 50 Where is the Emperor

The gladiatorial fight began soon.

Heavy Hammer and the Ambull gradually approached each other until they stopped after a distance of ten meters.

"start!"

Immediately after the order came over the radio, the two gladiators began to fight.

The battle is not gradual, but very intense from the beginning.

Although the ambull's body is huge, it is extremely agile and dexterous. He rushed to the heavy hammer with a sliding shovel on the spot, and chopped off his left hand with a knife.

But this was a flaw that Heavy Hammer deliberately sold. Taking advantage of the moment when the ambull was unable to dodge quickly after the attack, he grabbed his right leg, and the pliers on his arm quickly turned to unscrew the ambull's right leg.

Amid the cheers of the audience, the two quickly distanced themselves.

The ambull bounced to keep its balance, while the heavy hammer picked up the broken arm from the ground and put it in the storage box sewn to the back.

When the cheers of the audience gradually subsided, the two began the next round of duel.

"Go to hell!" the Ambull roared and charged, jumping vigorously and rushing straight towards the hammer, the two knives on its arms were ready to pierce through flesh and metal.

Heavy Hammer was also charging, but his speed was actually slower than the ambull jumping on one leg, but he was more imposing, roaring while running: "Bless me, the champion of valor!"

The speed of the heavy hammer became faster and faster amidst the roar, and he threw the ambull down even before he could react, and smashed the ambull's head with the pincers on his arm.

The ambull's head was already deformed after the first smash.

The ambull's face sunk deeply after the second smash.

After the third blow, the ambull's head burst immediately.

Heavy Hammer got up from the pool of blood, raised the ambull's body and shouted to the audience: "For the champion of bravery!"

The cheers and applause of the audience became more violent, cheering for the winner of this gladiatorial fight.

Heavy Hammer didn't leave the arena, he dragged the ambull's body off the ring, and then walked in front of a circle of iron railings outside the auditorium, showing off his achievements and the miserable corpse of the enemy.

"This person is so hardworking that he doesn't hesitate to exchange an arm for the death of the enemy." Klein stood up and applauded.

Gray looked at Grote at the side, thinking that Grote would like this kind of fierce gladiatorial fight, but found that his expression was shocked and trembling.

"Antara!" Gray yelled at the hammer, "It's me!"

Hearing the name Antara, Heavy Hammer immediately turned his head to look in the direction of the sound. He saw an officer and two people in power armor.

Immediately after, Grote took off his helmet and rushed to the edge of the stands to wave at the hammer.

Sledgehammer threw away the ambull's carcass, jumped up and waved vigorously at Grote. The two shouted to communicate, but their voices were soon drowned out by more violent cheers and applause.

Grote pointed in the direction where the hammer came out when the gladiatorial fight began, and made a gesture that only two people could understand that he would pass.

But Chong Hammer just shook his head with a solemn expression, turned and left.

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Arena backstage.

In order to reward the heavy hammer for winning, the arena implanted a new prosthetic body for the broken arm of the heavy hammer. This prosthetic body does not have the function of a normal arm, it is just a knife that can release electric current.

While implanting the prosthesis, Hammer saw Grote coming with the female guide.

Grote came here by himself, and he had sent Gray and Klein back first to prevent the two of them from being involved in trouble.

After seeing Grote, Heavy Hammer immediately got up, dragged the half-implanted prosthetic body, walked over, and knelt down in front of the female guide: "Mentor."

The female guide nodded in satisfaction and introduced Grote: "This is the guard of the commander of the First Army. He said he wants to meet you, a brave gladiator."

"Yes." The heavy hammer knelt down to Grote deeply, "My lord, I salute you."

"Antara...you...I..." Grote faltered tremblingly, but couldn't make a complete sentence after squeezing for a long time, and finally turned his head to look at the female guide: "I need to be alone with him."

"Of course." The female guide nodded and left with the others in the backstage.

He waited for everyone else to walk away before he dared to get up and hug Grote: "Brother...my brother..."

"You... what have you experienced?" Grote felt half of his brother's cold metal body, and didn't even dare to guess his experience.

Heavy Hammer didn't answer right away.

The two muscular men hugged each other and wept bitterly, tears and snot mixed and flowing onto each other's power armor or metal shoulders.

After Heavy Hammer cried enough, he took Grote to sit down and told about his experience during this period.

On the second day after Grote entered the Bottom Nest, an officer suddenly came to the family and said that he had become a traitor on the front line and had betrayed to the rebel army.

As family members of traitors, Chong Hammer and her sister had to pay five hundred throne coins as a ransom, and a soldier's monthly salary was less than twenty throne coins, so it was conceivable that they couldn't afford it.

Then the five hundred throne coins became the debt of Chong Hammer and his sister, both of whom were sold to the guild, the sister disappeared, and Chong Hammer was transformed into a slave to the pit.

"A week ago, I killed the supervisor and ran out, and then I was forced to join the arena. After two days of training, I started to fight." Heavy Hammer looked down at the ground, with uncontrollable anger in his tone, "I named myself Heavy Hammer, a good middle-aged gladiator who guided me to believe in the champion of bravery."

After all, Heavy Hammer took out a statue from his arms.

The statue depicts a gladiator holding a prisoner of war in his right hand and a string of skulls in his left.

"No...you can't turn your back on the Emperor...I fought with the Emperor's emissary in the bottom nest, and you believe in..."

"Where is the Emperor?"

Grote's words were interrupted by the heavy hammer. The serious brother stared at his younger brother, and after a pause for a few seconds, he asked again: "Where was the Emperor when they said you were a traitor? Where was the Emperor when they sold our sister? Where was the Emperor when I was transformed into a pit slave?"

Grote was speechless when asked.

"The brave champion gave me strength, I can't leave, I can only stay in the arena, and use blood to sacrifice to this great god." Heavy Hammer said and put the statue of the brave champion into his arms.

"But... But the Emperor's emissary saved me... If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be able to leave the bottom nest..." Grote suddenly thought of a reason to defend the Emperor.

Hearing this reason, Chong Hammer glanced at his younger brother, and said calmly, "Maybe the person who saved you is also a god, or another god's messenger who is willing to bestow favor on the world, and no matter what he is, he is much better than that slave master on Terra who didn't even want to fart."

Grote thought silently, and he remembered that there were indeed people who worshiped Qin Mo as a god.

"I'm going to participate in the next gladiatorial fight." Zhong Hammer got up and walked towards the arena.

"You have to go with me." Grote pressed his brother's shoulder, "The Legion Commander will replace you with a better prosthetic body, so that you can look like a normal person. Let's go find Maya together, and then our family will live in Bottom Hive."

"Will they let you take me?" Zhong Hammer looked towards the door.

"Of course they won't." Grote took the gravity hammer from his back and stuffed it in the hammer's pliers, "but I just have to take you away."

Looking at the power armor on his younger brother and the hammer he stuffed in his hand, Heavy Hammer thought for a while and then nodded: "We are going to find Maya, and then we will get together as a family like before, but before that, I have to take revenge on those bastards."

(End of this chapter)