Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 45 The Arena

Rodel's area is the largest among all the cities in the world. If you really want to go shopping on foot, you will definitely not be able to finish it in ten days and half a month. Obviously, the two of them don't have that much time right now, so Lance Shanks just planned. A relatively simple route - starting from the Temple of the Ancient Dragon, passing through the Ancient Dragon Square in the east of the city, walking along Belleville Street, and entering the lower city, and then going around the south of the city through those cobweb-like unnamed streets and alleys, and then returning to Gold temple.

In terms of urban planning of the royal capital, the small area to the north of the Golden Temple is where princes, ministers and nobles live, while the large area to the south of the city is where commoners, small traders, and craftsmen work and live. The Rodell River extending from Lake Derll is the boundary, commonly known as the upper and lower urban areas.

The outfits and route design of the two of them today are heading to the downtown area. As the main part of the Golden King City, which accounts for [-]% of the capital, this urban area that gathers a large number of residential buildings, shopping malls, and workshops is the real embodiment of Romania. The local customs and customs of Del, as for the luxurious and prosperous upper city where every inch of land is expensive, Lucia, who already lives in the Golden Temple, naturally has no need to visit.

After crossing the Cavan Bridge on the southern section of Bellwell Street, as soon as she entered the south of the city, Lucia felt a completely different style from the upper city.Although the exterior of the building is still magnificent, it pays more attention to the compactness of the structure and the utilization of the area. The clothes of the common people are much simpler than that of the rich in the north of the city, but they are still decent.

In addition, the number of wandering mercenaries and adventurers on the street has doubled. Most of them are wearing low-quality leather armor and iron armor. From time to time, he hangs around the passing caravans and the arenas that can be seen everywhere in the city, his falcon-like eyes are shining with the desire for opportunities.

Lucia had learned about the scene of Rodel's Lower Town from books and other people's narrations. The situation in front of him was not much different from his imagination, but it was much more vivid and real.While listening to Lance Shanks' introduction, he patiently observed every detail, gradually merging Rodel in his mind with reality through constant verification and thinking.

In his opinion, the deep-seated reasons behind everything can be unearthed from all external appearances. Take Rodel's civilian ecology as an example. The living standards of ordinary people here are already on par with Fam Yazra's knight class , as long as they are not mixed races, demihumans and other "lower untouchables" born into slavery, all human beings who live in Rodel and are called "golden people" can receive superior living conditions and considerable respect.

Even if you look at the entire Golden Dynasty, this kind of material level is only limited to Rodel. Behind this phenomenon is the fact that Rodel's productivity is several times higher than that of the contemporary large cities, and it is more because of the continuous blood transfusion from the outside world. .

The residents of the royal capital hardly engage in heavy and inefficient physical labor such as farming, animal husbandry, and mining. Long before the Battle of Nagarjuna, their work types had migrated to the industrial, commercial, and service industries on a large scale. As for raw materials and basic The supply of living materials all depends on external transportation.

Mineral materials and cloth are processed here into sophisticated weapons and gorgeous clothes, and after excluding the consumption of the capital itself, they are sold to various parts of the continent by caravans. In decades of similar cycles, the people of gold have the highest level of wealth in the entire continent. At the material level, the national power of the entire dynasty is also thriving through the core hub of Rodel.

And the astonishing number of mercenaries and adventurers is not a manifestation of the chaotic current situation, on the contrary, it is precisely because the Golden Dynasty has maintained extremely strong national power and a very high speed of external expansion in the past few decades, so that a large number of pursuit Prosperous and wealthy wandering warriors came here admiringly.

To this day, the Golden Army still maintains the highest proportion of mercenaries among the armies of the three dynasties. Kaidan, known as the "hometown of mercenaries", has almost become the exclusive source of soldiers for the Golden Tree. Among them, the Kaidan mercenaries who are skilled in bows and horses have become the backbone of the golden army, second only to the Rodel knights.In contrast, Kalia is also equipped with many cuckoo knights who were born as mercenaries, but they have never been truly trusted by the full moon royal family, and they are far from being qualified to become the main force of the dynasty.

In addition to the mercenaries, the many arenas established since the era of the early king Ge Fulei are also a way out for these wandering warriors to become famous.

Aristocrats often settle some irreconcilable disputes in the arena in the form of honor duels. Of course, most decent nobles will not personally participate in this kind of brutal fight, unless one party personally ends and requests to fight with himself by name. Nobles with equal status will fight in person, otherwise they will appoint their own warriors to represent themselves in the duel.For some minor nobles who lack the attachment of strong men, it is undoubtedly the best choice to temporarily hire these vagabond warriors with experience in licking blood.

In addition, these arenas belonging to the top nobles and even members of the royal family have their own competitive system. They unconditionally absorb all fighters who are not afraid of bloodshed to become contestants, and even give money to some adventurers who cannot afford weapons. The winners are allotted standard weapons of extraordinary quality, and the real strong players are selected through a strict and fair points competition system.

The winner of each game will get a lot of money, and the warriors who win consecutively will be invited to participate in the league held between multiple arenas. The strong player with the best record in the year will often be favored by the nobles , Since then, he has made great achievements, becoming their personal guards supported by a lot of money, or even some officers in the private army of nobles.As for the loser, the arena expressly prohibits killing human opponents, and other injuries and disabilities are the price that the contestants must bear.

Since the beginning of the martial era under Geoffrey, this event has continued in various parts of the country, and people have coincidentally called it "Battle Festival".

"What? We're going to compete too?" Lucia stood in front of a large arena called "Serrante", looking at Lance Shanks who was playing in front of him in astonishment.

"It's okay to play two games. It's not the first time I've come to this place." Lance Shanks dragged him in without any explanation.

Hey, hey, from your tone of voice, you must be a repeat offender!While Lucia was slandering, he couldn't help thinking of sister Lance's glorious deeds of beating the nobles of the Golden Dynasty many times in the past ten years. Among the few cases in which the legendary nobles were personally ordered to fight by name, he blindly guessed that this guy accounted for at least half of them!

Fortunately, both of them had disguised themselves today. The supervisor at the front desk of the arena didn't recognize Lance Shanks' identity at all. He just registered the fighter numbers for the two of them as usual, and issued them the lowest-ranked fighters. Black Iron Sword Medal.

"Lance, number 9856, black iron fighter."

"Lucifer, serial number 9857, black iron fighter."

Old Hart, the front desk supervisor of the arena, closed the dictionary-thick register in front of him, habitually touched the goatee on his chin, and said without raising his head: "In about half an hour, you can each queue for a round of gladiatorial battles. Do you need to issue weapons?"

"No need, we brought it ourselves." "Lance" said casually.

Hearing this voice, Old Hart suddenly raised his hair, and hurriedly raised his bald head to look, but the other party had already skipped the front desk, and led "Lucifer" to the inside of the arena with ease.

"Fortunately not." Old Hart squinted through thick reading glasses for a long time, and he was relieved after confirming that the other party was not the ancient dragon priest.

Although the arena is backed by the very popular Duke Duoris, and can usually undertake some noble duel business without any pressure, but this does not mean that he is willing to carry out those golden heroes who have been beaten half to death every day. Watching the jokes of big shots twice in three days, can he still manage this arena?

Thinking of this, he opened the register that had just been closed. When he saw the name Lance, his eyelids twitched, and many unpleasant memories immediately flooded his mind. Fortunately, the word "Lance" alone is just a bad idea. The name of the street, he has seen it no less than five times in the past two weeks, but it is this Lucifer.
"What's the strange name?" Old Hart frowned. Having just escaped from the panic, he decided to vent his anger. With a tick in his hand, he temporarily adjusted Lucia's next opponent.

"Heh, the old man at the stall is in a bad mood, so bad luck for you!"

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