2 Episode 2 (the arena)

Et bellator! Et bellator! Et bellator, the crowd at the colosseum rumbled

Severus was in shackles, standing in a hallway that leads to the battle arena, clothed in armors and a red cape that ran through his back to his heels.

Et bellator! Et bellator!

The crowd rumbled outside the hallway, the roars were so loud, they traveled Into the hallway where Severus was, a lot more praises from the crowd resounded into the hallway, such as

"Vir bellica" it meant the man of war, a moniker given to Severus when he defeated captives from Ammonite in an arena.

Severus grinned as he heard his aliases echo into the hallway, it was time indeed for the most important battle of his life, Severus sucked in a deep breath while the soldiers beside him handed him a helmet and a mace.

Severus caught the soldier beside him gaping at him, the soldier had his mace.

" Do I look Amazing to you"

Severus said to the soldier while taking his mace out of his hands.

"Who doesn't love you in Venice, I just feel for you, go win that match, you've served well, you deserve your freedom"

The soldier patted Severus behind, the other soldier with Severus's helmet handed it to him, Severus pranced along the hallway into the arena.

Severus emerged out of the hallway, almost the entire crowd ran wild, roaring as they caught the sight of Severus.

The soldiers who walked Severus into the arena, shut and bolted the hallway with a thick iron door, they were made to prevent gladiators from fleeing from their arena.

Severus halted in the middle of the arena, he looked up to the wild crowd numerous and scattered all over the coliseum like little sands, chanting his aliases.

Just five years ago, Christians held a movement against gladiator matches, calling for an end to it, as it goes contrary to the teachings of Jesus the Messiah, the Christian movement made gladiator games rampant, the game lost a lot of audiences, matches barely had turn-ups.

The birth of Severus's career as a gladiator, rejuvenated gladiator games.

Severus kept glancing around at the number of people that turn up for the match, there were massive in the colosseum. Severus's eyes ran across the top middle row at the colosseum.

His eyes and Bianchi's eyes met, Bianchi was seated at the top middle row of the colosseum, surrounded by a lot of nobilities.

"He stares fiercely at you" Luigi whispered into Bianchi's ears,

"He is trying to remind me, this is his last fight, and he would be a free man after the match," Bianchi said.

"Will you grant him, freedom governor?" Luigi asked,

It took a little while for Bianchi to reply, Luigi, glared at him in wait for a reply.

Bianchi wiped his pam over his face, he glared back at Luigi and said,

"His matches had made us a wealthy city, it will be hard to let him go," Bianchi said.

What Bianchi said, made Luigi a little confused, Luigi glanced around to check if there were any potential over-hearers, before coming close to Bianchi's ears,

"Are you not going to let him go if he comes out victorious in this match"

Luigi whispered to him, Bianchi bent his head, it was as though he was making a tough decision in his mind.

While bending his head Bianchi peeked at Luigi, he caught a little sadness on his face, Bianchi thought maybe Luigi has felt he doesn't want to free Severus.

"It's a tough dilemma, Luigi, we let Severus go and let go of wealth as well,

Or keep Severus and keep wealth as well, although we would go against the law." Said Bianchi

"It's against the law to deny a gladiator freedom, after serving well," Luigi said.

Bianchi turned over his looks at Luigi, he made a stentorian face and he said.

"I haven't decided Severus's fate, but as things are now, he will be set free if he wins this final battle."

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The announcer, sitting on his special seat, at the uppermost middle row of the colosseum, Shouted.

"All hail! De Niro Severus, alias the man of war!."

Staying at the uppermost part of the colosseum made the announcer's voice echo throughout the colosseum,

Severus put on his helmet and clasped his mace on its tips and its head, across his belly.

Severus jerked back and forth in wait for his challengers who were to come out before him from a hallway door opposite the hallway door Severus came out from.

It was hot inside his helmet, Severus has never felt so anxious in his life like how he was feeling at the moment, he was breathing out hot air, and his mind was unquiet.

For a moment Severus stopped hearing the mumbling crowd, his ear blurred over their noises, He thought, Severus spent those seconds confronting his fears deep inside him.

"Severus, decide you want it more than you are afraid of it."

Severus said in his mind, those words encouraged him, he kept his fists firm on his mace and laid in wait for his challengers.

It didn't take long after that, the hallway door before Severus drove up