Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 6 Bloody Arena

"The half-elf in the distance! Don't try to approach it sneakily, get out!" A cold voice yelled at the hazy shadow in a dark corner.

"Have you been discovered yet?" Thorn frowned upon hearing this, and muttered to himself, then walked out of the corner of the shadow and walked towards the two guards guarding the gate.

This is the junction of the upper city and the lower city of Winter City. The fastest shortcut from the lower city to the upper city is the gate in front of you.

Otherwise, you can only bypass the outer city where the poor live, and then pass through the business district.

Because the upper city belongs to the living area of ​​the nobles of Winter City, the luxurious and decadent nobles always like to look down on other residents below, and the door in front of them is also to prevent the entry of idlers other than the nobles.

Anyone who does not travel with the nobles, does not wear noble servants, and does not carry a noble employment certificate will be stopped outside the door.

In order to test his stealth skills, Thorn always likes to turn on his stealth skills and walk slowly through shadowy corners every time he comes here.

But what disappointed him was that every time he approached two guards about ten meters away, he would be scolded immediately, which indirectly proved that the guards guarding the gate must be stronger than him.

This is a real alien world. Although players have the so-called attribute templates and upgrade functions for killing monsters, they do not have magical reconnaissance skills.

Throwing a skill will give you most of the opponent's information. If you want to find out the opponent's strength, you can only rely on guesswork and strong intuition besides combat temptation.

In the wilderness, Thorne once encountered a lone kobold, but what he didn't expect was that the other party turned out to be a kobold warlock.

Then he was almost burned to death by the burning hand of the other party. Fortunately, the desert wind martial arts he practiced, the fire avoidance formula in it has a high resistance to fire damage, so he saved his life in embarrassment.

At this time, Thorne was wearing a simple pure black linen clothes, and all the items on his body, including weapons and equipment, were put into the dimensional bag hidden near his body.

The actual space inside this bag is much larger than it looks.

Although it is only the size of a palm, it can hold up to 50 pounds of things with a volume of no more than 5 cubic feet.

And no matter what it contains, the weight of the dimension bag is always 5 pounds.

If it is used normally, it will not be damaged easily because of the simple enchantment on the surface.

But if it is artificially damaged, you can experience the fun of exploding equipment, and everything inside will crash and fall to the ground happily.

Thorne once fought with a low-level evil wizard in the wild. When attacking the opponent, he accidentally cut the wizard's dimension bag, and all kinds of strange things were scattered all over the ground in an instant.

It made him experience the feeling of killing monsters for the first time, as if he had returned to the era of online games in his youth, but what followed was a dull pain in his heart.

Because the dimensional bag sells for 200 gold coins in the wizard's secret shop, which means that he indirectly damaged an item worth nearly 200 gold coins.

Although the dimensional bag is very convenient for carrying items, don't put the weapon in it when you are about to fight.

There is a delay in getting anything out of the bag, which is why most spellcasters have pockets sewn into the inside of their robes.

Because the casting of many spells requires spell-casting materials before mastering the specialty of casting-free materials.

Therefore, Thorne's weapons are always carried with him unless there is an accident. Only in this way can he make various responses more quickly during battle.

But today is different. The place he is going to is the bloody arena at the junction of the lower city and the upper city.

For the fun of the nobles, the gladiators in the arena are banned from wearing armor and using enchanted weapons.

Only in this way can those nobles with eyes on the top of their heads, who are high above their heads, clearly see the wounds and splashes of blood caused by the gladiators every time they fight.

"Show your identification." One of the guards saw Thorne approaching, tightened the long sword in his hand, and then said coldly.

Thorne didn't care much about this, so he casually took out a palm-sized metal plaque engraved with simple magic runes and handed it over.

"A gladiator from the Moraine family? Another guy who wants money and life, you can go in."

The guard took Thorne's ID card, and after seeing the family crest on it, he glanced at him unexpectedly, muttered something, and then let him go directly.

Thorne took the sign with a calm expression, and walked towards one of the small doors on both sides of the gate.

The gate is reserved for the so-called aristocrats in the common people's mouth, and they, the lowest-level personnel, are only worthy of passing through the small gate.

In Toril's world, all the rules were silently observed after many bloody incidents, and Thorne naturally didn't want to touch this mold.

As long as he can survive today, he will quickly leave this place of right and wrong, and go to a place that truly belongs to the players.

"The half-elf looked familiar just now, what's his name?" one of the guards asked after seeing Thorn disappear.

"It seems to be Thorne..."

"So it's Thorne, damn it! How could I have forgotten such an important matter, if I had known, I wouldn't have exchanged guard posts with that guy Lando!" The guard who asked the question suddenly said regretfully.

Because the guard inside the bloody arena could see the wonderful fight, he foolishly agreed to him for a little benefit from the other party.

"What's the situation?"

"It's clear that you were transferred recently. Even Thorn didn't know it. This half-elf is not easy. He has won 98 consecutive victories in the arena. Tonight is likely to be the first one to win 100 consecutive victories. Gladiator! I missed witnessing this historic moment."

"If it's so easy to get a hundred consecutive victories, there won't be one by now." Another guard snorted coldly when he heard the words, pouring cold water on him and said disdainfully.

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The Bloody Arena is a huge bowl-shaped pit, and the walls of this bowl-shaped pit building are built into the shape of an audience stand.

The flat area at the bottom of the bowl is specially provided for slaves, beasts, various monsters and gladiators to fight.

Usually every battle ends with the death of one of the parties.

This is a place for the many idle nobles in Winter City to vent and entertain. After all, there are really not many so-called entertainment activities in this world.

Rather than calling it an arena, it would be more appropriate to call it an arena or a colosseum. The so-called competition is just a decent name for the nobles to brighten their faces.

The bloody arena provides lively and interesting performances for the nobles, and they will not be stingy about betting on the ones they are optimistic about.

Even some nobles who can't see each other will send their own guards to fight each other, and then bet heavily on these bloody matches to win chips and benefits in various internal fights.

The reason why Thorne was lucky enough to come into contact with this place was precisely because he was fighting bandit players in Anderina's bar last month.

Due to the excessive movement, it attracted the attention of the city guards, and was then imprisoned in the underground death row of Winter City.

So in order to survive and obtain a free identity, Thorne successfully became a gladiator of the Moraine family. After he helped the Moraine family complete 10 consecutive victories, he was finally released.

However, Thorne fell in love with this place deeply. His purpose of coming here is to achieve 100 consecutive victories, and after completing it, he can also get a powerful background specialty: Bloody Challenger!
And tonight will be his last night in Winter City. Of course, it is also possible to turn into a cold corpse, and then be thrown into the sewer or fed to some ferocious beasts.

The nearly two years of bloody adventures in the game have given him no fear of death, but this does not mean that he will die foolishly.

Since he dared to come here, he naturally had the strength he relied on.

Thorne was standing at the top of the big bowl-shaped pit in the arena at the moment, his messy black hair was blown up by the biting cold wind, he silently watched the environment below and felt the cheers of the audience in his seats.

This is a habit of his, every time before a duel, he will quietly observe a few battles, only in this way can he better stimulate his blood!
(End of this chapter)