We landed after a long while of silence in our little vessel, on small private parking, judging from the ships already standing there. It was located on top of the biggest building belonging to a large complex which easily had a few square kiloters.
The other vehicles were much bigger, and probably way more expensive. So looked quite fancy with elents coated with gold and so precious gems placed as decorations here and there.
Claudine was the first to leave, and his eyes for a mont rested on one of those ships. He smiled. I followed him shortly.
- What's so funny? - I asked him.
- The fact that those idiots tend to spend their money on such useless things as golden wings, and not invest in their businesses to climb the ladder and reach higher. Such small minds. That's why they will always stay here in a local league. Even if they discover a talent, they won't know what to do with it.
He then restarted his walk, heading towards a door, which would take us to an elevator. We went all the way down, and through a corridor reached a room which clearly was so registration. It was filled with aliens waiting in line to a counter where a fat, large individual with a short trunk was working. So were holding papers, others didn't. Couples were arguing with each other, but the appearance of the Calludin silenced them all.
The two of us passed by them heading to a door, next to the counter, leading deeper. It was guarded by a few large individuals, but they stepped back, to make space for the smaller psionic. It was obvious that he was scaring them. on the other hand - completely not.
I caught a few angry faces looking at , clearly trying to intimidate sohow, but I've already seen scarier monsters than those folks.
The doors slid open, and we went to a large massive chamber filled with many people gathered in small groups. Trainers and their fighters, usually occupying so benches on the sides. The middle was taken by an island made out of four counters, with four aliens working there. They all were female.
They were announcing sothing loudly in alien language from ti to ti, and by what was happening, I quickly figured out that it had to do sothing with fights.
- Follow - said the Calludin, bringing back my attention to him.
He took to the right edge of the chamber where a short corridor was located. It was ending with a door. After a quick glance around, I noticed a few more, and also four much bigger exits from that place. One of them was used by us to get there.
We ended up in a small waiting room, just for the two of us. There was a bench to sit on, a table, and a bathroom. I went straight to the last one after I figured what it was.
It was a nice change after simply pissing into a corner of my cell, which by the way was not cleaned up at all, but let's leave it at that.
- So, what now? - I asked after rejoining him. - Who do I fight?
- You will see when everything is ready. If you perform well, then I might even consider giving you a reward.
- I want to know what happened to the people who were with - I said imdiately.
He smiled.
- Then I want you to kill whoever will be there to face you.
For a second thought of facing other people I knew, enslaved just like , flashed by my mind, but If he were to send us against each other we wouldn't hurt ourselves, so it kinda lacked sens. That just couldn't be it.
I nodded slowly, and he smiled again.
It was so damn annoying. If I could I would wipe that ugly smug out of his face using my fist, but I had to keep my emotions on a leash. I had to endure. The ti was not right yet. I kept repeating that to myself as I went to sit down on a bench, but sadly there was no ti for to rest, as the door slid open revealing one of the won I noticed working in the large chamber.
She was holding a stack of docunts.
She had gills on her cheeks, eyes with vertical pupils, two holes for a nose, and curly brown hair despite having green skin. Instead of saying anything she quickly glanced through the docunts, and only then spoke sothing, which I couldn't understand.
Calludin smiled yet again and said sothing back before turning his head towards .
- It looks like everything is ready. Follow this lady, and give a good performance. If you do, I'll consider giving you the informations you seek so desperately.
I didn't respond, just started moving towards the alien woman. She glanced at the Calludin, and then turned around, to lead through the chamber to one of the exits.
After a long corridor, I ended up in front of a heavy large gate. She spoke to , but I had no idea what she wanted to say. Then the gate opened, revealing a round sandpit surrounded by a wall a few ters tall, with stands above, fully occupied by a mix of strange races. The space had a radius of at least ten ters.
,m I slowly entered, and the gate slamd shut after . The crowd started cheering, laughing, and yelling words I heard for the first ti in my life. So didn't even sound like words, more like noises.
Then identical gate on the other side opened, revealing a large group of ard gladiators. I compared to them looked quite small, not to ntion the fact I was unard. As the one by one joined in the sandpit, I started counting, to check the number Calludin send to face. I saw junk weaponry in their hands. Jagged pieces of tal that were supposed to be swords, axes, hamrs, or simple clubs with so sharp elents.
They also had so elents of armor covering their torsos, shoulders, and forearms. Not much, but always sothing. All were smiling, or at least that's how I saw it since so of their faces were really strange.
Seventy. That's how many of them were there.
The laughs from the stands filled the arena.
"Let's see who will be the one to have the last laugh", I thought to myself, as I clenched my fingers tightly into fists, and assud a boxing stance.
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