I've run out of money to protect Arad

Chapter 422 Empire Arena

The Delos Empire has a vast territory and rich terrain, including vast and fertile plains, cold and arid deserts, rolling glaciers and snow-capped mountains, and scattered forests and islands.

The entire empire can be divided into four regions with different characteristics: the snow mountain region in the northwest, the black region in the northeast, which includes the gray desert and the black earth, the Faroe Bay region in the middle, and the developed plain region in the south.

Under normal circumstances, the people of the empire like to divide the entire country into north and south with the Faroe Bay as the boundary. The imperial capital is the golden city of Veltalon in the south.

Hearing Duan Chao ask, Kelly thought for a moment, raised her head and looked at him, "How about going to the Imperial Military Academy?"

The Imperial Military Academy is actually the Royal Sword Academy. After the July Incident, in view of the Royal Sword Academy's contribution to the incident, Isabella ordered its resignation, and took the opportunity to open the registration restrictions for other countries.

As a result, the Military Academy gradually became famous on the mainland for its comprehensiveness and openness, and relied on its strong teaching staff and perfect assessment mechanism to gradually become the most famous military education institution on the Arad continent.

Of course, this is something to be said for the time being. Kaili asked Duan Chao to go to the academy with her at this time. Thinking of the treatment she received there a few days ago, she couldn't help but want her man to give her a sigh of relief. .

Duan Chao glanced at her.

Kaili felt a little guilty when Duan Chao looked at her, and couldn't help but ask, "What are you looking at?"

Then he simply said, "I was bullied there two days ago, so you just ask if you want to get me back!"

Duan Chao was delighted when he heard it, "Is there anyone in this world who can bully you?"

"Hey, what do you mean by that?"

"Whoever dares to bully you, you will dismantle his weapon! If you still dare to provoke, you will chase him and dismantle all his equipment!"

"Again, I'm an enhancement machine, not a disassembly one! And I've already said that it's normal for enhancements to fail!"

As soon as Duan Chao mentioned this again, Kelly suddenly flew into a rage.

Swearing and not revealing faults, okay?
What's more, now that people have improved the strengthening machine, weapons below +10 will not be downgraded even if they fail, and weapons below +12 will not be disassembled even if they fail!
In the previous case, weapons below +10 would return to 0 if they failed, and weapons above +10 would be smashed directly if they failed.

Did you see my effort?

"Good good..."

Seeing that Kaili seemed to be really angry, Duan Chao hugged her, "Come on, tell me, which direction is the college?"

"It's on the west side, not far from here, just keep walking along this road."

Duan Chao nodded, and then walked to the Imperial Military Academy with Kelly.

Unexpectedly, when Kaili came to the college full of anger, she was told that there was an event in the college today, and everyone went to the arena.

"The arena? What's that place?"

Duan Chao was a little curious after hearing it, why hadn't he heard of such a place before?

Uncle Qin, who was in charge of the gate, looked at Duan Chao who was holding Kaili with some envy, and explained to the two of them.

It turns out that the so-called Imperial Arena has a longer history than the Imperial Military Academy.

The predecessor of the Imperial Military Academy, the Royal Fencing Academy, was founded by Leon Hainrich III, while the predecessor of the arena was built by Hainrich II, the father of Hainrich III.

It is located in the eastern outskirts of the imperial capital. It was originally a dark and dense forest. Later, Hainrich II built a secret palace here.

After his son succeeded to the throne, considering the hidden location and not easy to be discovered, he rebuilt it into an arena for the royal family and nobles on the basis of the secret palace.

Since the establishment of the arena, a grand duel will be held every week.

Its participants include fighters from underground black market competitions, ghost swordsmen with arm troubles, combat slaves trained by nobles themselves, and some unknown berserk monsters and so on.

With such participants, it is not difficult to imagine how bloody and brutal the duel scene was.

However, because the winners can allow His Majesty the Emperor to fulfill one of their wishes, many people still signed up to participate in the duel even though they were close to death.

However, after Hainrich III's conspiracy was revealed, the arena was closed.

It was not until some time after Isabella came to the throne that she ordered the place to be reorganized and renamed the Hippodrome, and in most cases it was rented by the Royal Academy of Swordsmanship.

Now that the Royal Sword Academy has become the Imperial Military Academy, it is natural to continue to rent it.

After learning about these things from the concierge, Uncle Qin, Kaili turned to Duan Chao, "How about it, do you still want to see it?"

"Let's go, it's time to come..."

As Duan Chao spoke, he picked up Kelly and disappeared from Uncle Qin's sight in a few leaps.

Looking at the backs of Duan Chao and Kaili, Uncle Qin said with emotion, "It's nice to be young!"

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Empire Arena.

Some people say that this huge building is the glory and prosperity of the empire.

Others say that this is the scabbed wound of the empire.

However, there is no denying that the people of the Empire have always been more than happy to appreciate the battles that are fought to the death in the arena.

Some of these battles are for wealth and honor, some are for greater power and authority, and some are just for survival and freedom.

Countless spectators gathered here to witness the hustle and bustle of the empire.

The game is over, the night is deep, the noise fades away like the tide,
A rare moment of silence descends on the arena, empty and bloody.

I don't know when it started, strange rumors about the arena in the night spread unknowingly among the crowd:

[After the night falls, there are often miserable screams and howls of monsters in the arena! 】

Those who heard the rumors dismissed them as rumors, and those who heard the voices with their own ears regarded them as auditory hallucinations. Of course, some people believed that they were the souls of dead soldiers wailing.

However, no one can determine the source of the rumors, because in the middle of the night, no one can enter the closed arena.

Until late one night, a carriage slowly stopped in front of the arena.

"this way please……"

A woman in formal attire opened the carriage door expressionlessly and made a welcome gesture.

At the same moment, the closed door quietly opened as if welcoming someone.

A figure in the shadows slowly got out of the carriage.

He walked into the door under the watchful eyes of the woman with a step that he did not recognize.

The gate closed behind him as his figure was engulfed in darkness.

The woman in formal attire bowed slowly, then quietly boarded the carriage and galloped away.

(End of this chapter)