Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 48 Secret News
"Corpse cart?"

Lucia was taken aback when she heard the words. At this moment, a carriage in the front had stopped near the mouth of the well. The stout driver pulled out a white cloth from the pocket of his underwear and tied it behind his head to cover his mouth and nose, then jumped out of the carriage, He lifted the rag over the carriage.

Inside were more than a dozen corpses of various sizes and shapes—demihumans, lion hybrids, winged hybrids, and some whose physical characteristics could not be seen clearly because of mutilation and blood stains, but most of them were not human beings.

They were stacked tightly together. In order to save space, many corpses were even bent and twisted into shapes that were impossible to appear in life, as if they were not the remains of living beings, but a pile of garbage that needed to be disposed of urgently.

The moment the corpse was exposed to the air, the stench just now became more pungent, and Lucia immediately felt a strong physical and psychological discomfort.

On the other hand, the driver standing behind the corpse truck did not show any abnormalities. Above the nose and mouth covered by the white cloth was a pair of calm eyes, apart from a kind of numbness that went deep into the bone marrow, no other emotions could be seen.

The driver stretched out his hand and grabbed the hemp rope that bound the corpses, and with a sudden force on his waist and legs, he lifted a bundle of demihuman corpses and carried them on his shoulders, then strode to the edge of the well, and threw them in with a hey sound.

The sound of splashing mud and water echoed in the underground well. He didn't stop, but just shook off the flesh and blood on his hands with a flat face, walked back to the car and repeated the same action.

Soon, Lucia's carriage gradually drove away from the area, and the moment before his vision was blocked by the buildings on both sides of the street, the last scene in his eyes was the driver driving the carriage and turning around lumberingly, the next driver The corpse truck followed and took his place.

It's like a never-ending cycle.

"Where did that corpse come from?" Lucia couldn't help asking.

"The slave market, the construction site, the barracks, and the arena. But mainly the arena." Lance Shanks replied truthfully.

"There are no less than [-] arenas like Serrante in the lower city, and even smaller ones are countless," she said, "After every day's arena, a death fight with aliens as the target of killing is a must. Conventional repertoire."

"Participants in the gladiatorial fights are generally low-level fighters who have had a dismal record recently and are on the verge of unemployment. If they can bring enough exciting, brutal, and violent killings to the audience in the death fight, they will fully demonstrate the 'bravery' sought after by the Golden People , is enough to save one's career and gain a lot of popularity and fame."

"Most of the demi-humans and hybrids on the opposite side are refugees captured in batches from Nangemir or the Weeping Peninsula. Occasionally, there will also be 'advanced goods' such as mountain goblins from the extreme arctic ice sheet or snakemen from North Gemir. They are already weak after the bumps and abuse, and when they step on the ring, they face the fully armed fighters with bare hands, and 90.00% of the time, the result is self-evident."

"90.00%?" Lucia was slightly taken aback, "Then the remaining ten percent."

"If a fighter is so useless that he can't win against this kind of opponent, he will be rescued by the guards on the sidelines when he is about to lose, and then he will be completely reduced to a low-level personnel who have no chance to fight. Take it back into custody and save it for the next death gladiator fight."

"Conversely, if a fighter wins the gladiatorial fight but refuses to kill his opponent out of kindness, his end will be worse than Yuzo." Lance Shanks sneered, "Rodel can accept weak , but will not tolerate weakness, they will kick him out of the fighter line, attack him with shells, eggs and saliva, and abuse him with the dirtiest words until he consciously rolls out of this land he 'doesn't deserve' .”

"Of course, this is only on the surface. Those big nobles will also secretly organize underground gladiatorial fights that only landlords and nobles are allowed to participate in. The fighters participating in the competition are stronger and the scenes are more bloody. Playing small fights has risen to the ownership of slaves, land, manors and even official positions. It’s just that I’m not interested in their disgusting games, so I don’t have a deep understanding.”

Lucia was silent for a long time after listening. Not long ago, when he was overlooking this magnificent city from the sky above the royal capital, he once thought that Rodel in the golden age was a symbol of progress and a beacon of civilization, at least at the overall level.

However, at this moment, he discovered that the city's brilliance and darkness, civilization and barbarism have not been separated from the beginning to the end, and the sacred and stalwart Golden Temple and the upper city and the bloody and dirty lower city arena are very naturally integrated. , Just like tens of hundreds of years later, the other side of the golden glazed tiles and marble columns is the sewers of the royal city that are stinky and full of monsters.

Thinking of this, he suddenly realized something, and asked, "Sister Lance, is Rodel's sewer just under the well where the corpse truck dumped the corpse?"

"Yeah," Lance Shanks nodded, "what's the matter?"

"Won't they throw the corpse down like this without any treatment, won't it cause a safety accident like the plague?" He asked, but he was vaguely looking forward to more answers.

As the successor of the ancient dragon dynasty, and in possession of a top-level database such as the Sky City Great Library, it is not surprising that Lucia knows some news about the omen, but the way the sons of omen in the king's city deal with it is quite different at this stage. For him, it should be an absolute secret.

Since Radagon succeeded King Elden and the fundamentalism of the Golden Law arose, it originally appeared on babies as partial atavistic inheritance, and the furnace tumor, which had sacred significance in ancient times, was gradually regarded as a symbol of pollution and curse. Babies who show this sign are also known as "children of bad omen".

If it is in a remote area other than Rodel, the only ending for these babies is to be abandoned or strangled after birth, but in Rodel, people will secretly cut off the hard horns of the Son of Omen, and then abandon it in the ground .The Son of Omen, who was born in the royal family, can be exempted from the punishment of having his horns cut off, but his fate of being abandoned and confined will not change in any way.

As early as when he first came to the capital, during the dinner, Lucia had not heard the names of Montgotte and Montgomery from Queen Marika during the whole process. Opportunity for proof.

After all, Mikaela still has little contact with each other, and the two are in different positions, so it is not easy to have a deep discussion on this matter.Sister Lance knew all his experiences since he was born, and it was really inappropriate to abruptly mention this secret that she should not have known.

Fortunately, this matter is not a secret to the residents who live in Rodel all year round. Originally, Lucia planned to use hearsay as an excuse to ask Sister Lance about this matter after a while. The opportunity presented itself.

"No, Rodel's sewer is not just a large drainage system, it is actually an unfathomable underground world." Lance Shanks replied as expected.

She first told Lucia the whole story about the Son of Ominous Omen, and then told some secrets that he had never heard of before.

(End of this chapter)