"Stop ! You thief !
"Come back over here !
"Huff , huff !
Why is he so fast ? That bastard, it's been 4 weeks since this brat has started stealing from us.
This bastard is crafty and he is always using narrow corner's to get away but this time , we won't let it happen.
"Buzz! Thomas he is heading your way , he is going to try and climb that broken down wall and go through the narrow passage that's connected to the slums , if he goes through there we will never be able to catch him.
"Buzz! Understood sir , we will go and block his path.
"Nexus! , if you stop right now I'll forgive you and treat this as a misunderstanding.
"Shut! Old man , you think I would fall for this trick of yours , you think I would give up this food that worked so hard to get.
You bastard , you will regret the day you were born when I catch you .
"Huff!
Good luck with that you bastard of an old man , haha!
Nexus climbed the wall and jumped to the other side but when he got down he saw a group of men waiting for him on the other side.
"Shi..!
Nexus thought to him self , how could they have known that he was going to use this escape route.
He turned around to try climb the wall again but he was hit with a wooden bat to the head.
Nexus collapsed for a moment before he regained his consciousness, his head was was in pain and he couldn't even think clearly.
So you though you would get away huh , too bad so sad huh!
I told you I was going to merciful full but now I don't feel like it. We warned you last time that if steal from us again that we will give you a beat down that you will never ever forget.
Argh , who's so noisy , what happened , oh shi.. ,Nexus looked up realized that he was surrounded.
He thought to him self how can I get out of this situation , running isn't an option , fighting but I am out numbered.
While nexus was deep, Kong a obese looking like old man with white hair and a beared gave his staff a signal to start the beat down.
The staff proceeded to beat nexus for hours before Kong gave them an order to stop.
Nexus had bruises everywhere, part of his ribs we're broken , following his arm too. His black Afro like hair was dyed red with his blood and his light blue eyes where swollen. His light brown like skin had deep cuts and he was laying in a pool of his own blood.
Next time you think of stealing from us again , we will send you to the after life.
Kong and his man left as Nexus had already lost his consciousness while he was begin beaten half way to death.
Several moments later he awoke with a terrifying headache that almost made him loose his consciousness again.
"Argh ! Damn it!
They really did a number on me huh ? Nexus stood up with his body hurting all over , he took a moment muttering to him self before he left to where his base is.
While on the way to his house his body was experiencing pain that he never experienced before , it was like he was going to faint again but he kept on pushing until he reached his broken down house in the slums .
He went inside and before he can even reach his bedroom he collapsed , the house had no doors or windows and most of it was broken down.
The slums were a an abounded area where the poor lived , it was an area full of pollution and sickness.
Nexus's body couldn't handle the pain it was in so it decided to shut down on it's own , while he was out he was awoken by something strange.
"Alex !
"Fight, fight , fight!
"Glory!
"Honor!
"Alexander!
Welcome all in all to the colosseum of legends , today we have slaves that are trying to earn there freedom and great warrior's trying earn there glory.
"Glory!
"Victory!
"Honor!
What's going on , Nexus looked around startled , he was just in his house in the slums and all of a sudden he is in this mysterious place.
Nexus saw that there foot where chained to the ground with there arms too, he also saw that they were in a structure that more resamples a cage. Nexus was confused on what was going on ?
What was happening and how did he ended up here?
While he was busy thinking to himself a man suddenly walked into there cage , there were three people behind him with weapons on there waist
"Attention!
All slaves , today all of you will be given a chance at freedom but be warned it comes at a cost you will have to battle our most strongest gladiators and warriors to earn your freedom.
All of you will be given a weapon to fight with and we shall select at random which one of you gets to fight everyday.
Be warned the weapon you choose will be the only one you get if it break's or is stolen it's not our problem and if you are thinking of escaping I will personally hunt you down and kill , that's all .
The man turned and left with out even look back , minutes after he left a man dressed in full plate armor , the man opened the cage and untied some slaves including Nexus and pushed them out of the cage.
"You lot are lucky the emperor didn't sentence all of you to death! , but if I have to say this is a worse fate than death having to fight them off all people.
Follow me on the road to death, as he started walking the slaves made way for him to pass in the middle and we followed after him.
We arrived at at room that was filled with weapons of all different kinds , choose one weapon and wait for my next instructions . The slaves went mad rushing for weapons as if they were madman , most them only targeted sword's and for some they choose other weapons.
Nexus's stood there still for a moment not knowing what to choose , I mean there are a lot of weapons to choose from but Nexus had a problem , first is he doesn't know how to use a weapon and second is he has never fought while using a weapon.
While Nexus stood there lost in his thoughts , the knight spoke to him.
"Hey why aren't you moving! , your wasting time go choose a weapon slave.
Nexus instinctuffly moved as he didn't want to find out what would happen if he refused to move. He walked in to the room full of weapons and started go through them , swords , spears , axe's , scythe's , dagger's and gauntlet s.
He came to a stop at the gauntlet section , he didn't know how to use other weapons but he did know how to use his fits , in the slums he had to fight for food it was survivel of the fittest.
He went through the section and end up picking a pair made out steel and leather with a colorful stone imprinted on the both of them .
After he was done taking his weapon , he went to where him and the other slaves were instructed to go .
"Good reddens , is everyone done picking there weapon if so follow me to your resting place haha!
As we were about to leave one of the slaves charged forward with his spear aming to kill this knight , I was wondering when one of you will do , it's always the same with all of you slaves.
The knight stopped for a second but continued moving forward after , this scene was a shocker as he was being attacked and he didn't do nothing about he just stopped for a second and continued moving forward after this made nexus think that something is wrong here .
What came after shocked everyone as the slave that attacked was now nothing but a pile of minced meat , this made nexus realize that this knight is strong and that even when we all were to attack at the same time we would still die by his hands.
The thing that scared nexus was the fact that he didn't see the man move or draw his sword he stopped and continued like nothing ever happened.
Every slave took what happened as a warning that if you think just because you have a weapon doesn't mean your stronger than him he will still kill you with out you knowing what happened.
Everything from there on out was just normal with no one daring to attack the knight , he led us to a platform that looked like a piece of the arena had been sunken down.
Alright you lads go and stand over there , do move until you reach the surface or you will die if you fall.
We all did as he said and the platform started moving , this was the first time Nexus had been on an moving land.
The whole thing lasted about five minutes before they reached the surface , there were loud noises of people screaming.
Nexus couldn't see for a moment as his eyes were just adjusting to the light the reason behind this is because they were underground were only a torch was used as there source of lighting , it took Nexus about two minutes for his eyes to adjust to the light and what Nexus saw horrified him.
There were half torn bodies everywhere , limbs that where missing from there main body,heads, arms and the area had been dyed red because of the blood of the slaughter that happened there .
This was enough to scare every slave present including nexus and at the center of it all stood one creature who's fur was covered in blood , it's structure resembled that of a lion but it had a face of a wolf.
The creatures fur was black with light blue like strips and with it's golden blue like eyes , it's body was large coming close to the height of 2,6 meters tall .
"Ladies and gentlemen! , today we have a match up of forty slaves vs a dire mang .
This species's is well know for it's strength, speed and endurance , it's home begin the wastelands .
This one was hard to catch as it required fifteen of our lower class knights to catch it , although it had suffered a turfing wound during it's fight with the knights it's still undefeated with a winning streak of fifteen matches.
Will the apex predator's streak continue or will the slaves begin there journey to freedom .
Oh and I forgot to mention one thing that's important , for the slaves to retain there freedom one or all of you need to have a ten match winning streak inorder to regain your freedom this was a rule set by his majesty and be warned for every opponent you defeat the next one will be stronger than the one you defeated.
"With that I will let his majesty take the center stage!
Greetings everyone , I am Darwin von caster the current king of Aronai and today we are hosting the trails of liberation .
This the process where these slaves have a chance at regaining there freedom but if they fail than death shall be there reward.
But I want to some special rules of my own accord.
1 All slaves can participate even if your a traitor or a thief all have a fair chance at freedom.
2 If you win 2 matches in a row you'll be granted an opportunity at choosing a weapon in the armory again
3 You are allowed to fight on your own if want but be advised if you choose this option you fight on your own until the event is over
"With let the trails begin!