Chapter 5

He holds the claymore above his right shoulder and waits. Just waiting for me to move first, is he stupid? Didn't he see his teammates get turned into 2 piece puzzles? Is he brave? Or scared? Can he beat me? Should I fight him? I should just charge first, ask the head later.

So I ran at him, charging a fireball and releasing it. It goes near him but ultimately misses. I continue my charge and wait for his sword to swing downward. He slashed his sword diagonally aiming for my chest. I shift my weight to the left and jump avoiding his blow.

Once I land, I jump towards him again and grab his right wrist. So I am holding his right wrist and facing his body. I slide my foot behind his left foot and use my open left hand to grab his left shoulder. I yank his left shoulder back, siding my foot forward tripping him. He falls backwards away from me as I press him further to the ground. Still holding his wrist I twist his arm violently breaking it. I grab his claymore and kick his chin so he is restrained. I quickly stab the claymore through the chain mill blocking the sides of his body. Piercing through and nailing him to the floor.

I stand up and walk over to one of the fallen shorts swords one of the gladiators was carrying. I then stand over the man, cut off his head and throw it in the air. I hold my hands out waiting to be cuffed again. It doesn't even take a second for applause and cheering to spread throughout the coliseum. A stunned guard walks over and puts the cuffs on me.

They drag me through a few areas with cells until I arrive in a room with a stone table and a wall of metal bars splitting the table in half. 2 people are sitting on the other side so I do the same as a guard locks the other end of my cuffs to one of the metal bars that were dissecting the table.

"We have to ask you some questions, that you will answer or we will torture you."

"What if I like torture?"

"You won't like our torture. So first how did you create the fire without any sparks?"

"Magic, next please."

"Elaborate."

"I channeled my mana to create the fire."

The f*ck why am I answering is it the cuffs? Is it magic? Sh*t these people definitely have magic too. Wait what am I stressing it not like I can break these cuffs. I exert strong force in my arms breaking the hand cuffs.

"Now that you can't force me to speak, ask more questions, I'm curious."

"Uhh-"

"Ask more questions."

"How did you break the holy iron cuffs?"

"With force."

"Back to my second planned question. Why did you kill your teammates?"

"To make the fight more fair."

"ok… third question: can other people use "ma-ji-k"?"

"Magic. And I don't know fully but I'll love to experiment. I doubt it though."

"Those were the planned questions so I have something to tell you. We will be auctioning you off during your next match so make sure to perform well if you don't want to get sold to a horrible owner. The more people pay the less they want to lose an item, keep that in mind."

"Do I get a say?"

"No."

A guard walks in and starts to cuff me while the man on the other side who was talking waved his hand at me. The guard stops trying to cuff me. So I walk back to my cell following a guard. After I arrive I sit down and think about what I was told.

First there are holy cuffs which make people tell the truth, people don't know what magic is, I'm a slave and my looks didn't work on the "interrogator" my new name for him. Well until the end where he couldn't bear to see a man as handsome as me being forced to wear cuffs. Now the conclusions I can make, there is holy power-stuff backed by the holy cuffs and their truth serum properties.

Said holy power may be a form of magic? I'm the only mage otherwise? Or Magician? Spell caster? Geek? Bad*ss? Or the cuffs could be made out of some special metal, but that seems a bit odd. There is loads of magic here for what I see. Maybe the world needs magic to function? I'm a slave now too, I know I'm not fine with that but if it benefits me it might be acceptable. Depends on if it's a Roman slave or an American slave. 2 highly different slaves American slaves are property who must work like machines for their owners and Roman slaves are like workers who get food and very low pay, but can still pay to free themselves.

If I get bought by someone who wants a guard, that will be good. But anyway I need to work on my magic, I would bet money that my last magic is gravity but I haven't tested it yet so that's step one. If it is, that means I can fly for some time. Which is sick. Like the vomit way. So I start to fill the bottom right mold with magic. After it fills all the way my hand feels odd like it can extend further than it should be able to.

So try and grab one of the stone plates that were left in my cell from the previous day's food. And it moves towards me slowly. I try to move it like my arm closer and it whips at my face. Slow-mo actives and a barely doge the plate. I'm getting better at not damaging myself with my magic. So telekinesis is confirmed similar to in game but different. In the game you can actually feel the telekinesis. It's just a button click and a controller buzz. But here it's an extension of my arm. It's odd but it'll work out eventually, after some more practice.