Chapter 246 Desperate Betrayal (3k)

The huge riot broke out to its peak at this moment.

The madness of the slaves and the wailing of the crowds almost filled the entire sky.

The slaves, who had been prepared to betray, stabbed their companions in front of them wildly with sharp blades.

The weapons that they had carefully polished until they were shiny enough to shine in the night were now completely covered in blood and greed.

Blood splattered and flesh flew everywhere.

Everyone was performing all kinds of scenes crazily.

This was no longer a battle, it was almost a one-sided massacre.

The slaves were filled with murderous intent. Everything before them was no longer their companions who had once suffered oppression together, but gold coins and steps for them to become slave owners.

People's eyes were filled with despair. The great man who was like their spiritual pillar just fell in front of them. The backstabbing of their companions made them feel like they were falling into the abyss.

Moreover, they had never expected to be betrayed by their companions, and they had never thought that a battle would break out. Quintus, who was well prepared, had never expected that there would be so many traitors.

In addition to the 30,000 escaped slaves, there were also 130,000 young and strong men from Agas.

And judging from the short moment of observation, the number of people who betrayed was probably close to two-thirds.

This was a ratio that almost made Quintus collapse.

But what made him most despair was the great man who fell before him.

From the Second Age to today's Fourth Age, this is the only one among the many dignitaries of Rome who has always stood on the side of mortals and slaves.

But even such a person fell at the hands of his trusted companions just like he did in the past.

The Old Continent was once the most tragic region in the War of Apocalypse, because it was where the Apocalypse began. The wrath of the eldest sons and the fighting among the servants of God burned the entire Old Continent.

This is also the fundamental reason why the Old World is now covered with Gobi and desert.

It is for this reason that the eldest son built a memorial church to commemorate all those who had lost their lives.

Then, when everything was shattered, it was Augustus who stood up. He quickly united the survivors of the entire Old World, led them to rebuild their homes on the ruins, and led them to prosperity.

Not to mention the entire world that he sewn together later, even the people in the Old World at that time were deeply benefited by Augustus.

But even in such a situation, the elders planned an assassination that was so stupid that even the gods could not understand.

Betrayed the man who gave them everything.

This is the text that Quintus hates every time he reads it.

Because no matter how much he embellished everything that happened back then, these words were clearly telling him the bad nature of the people in the Old World.

But he also felt that everything could still be changed. The ones who were wrong were the elders, the powerful, and Augustus' old subordinates who chose to remain silent about the betrayal after the assassination.

This was the mistake of their predecessors and has nothing to do with them today.

He believes that people today would not be like this.

Therefore, as he was born into a noble family, he planned to use politics to change the slavery system that had lasted for several epochs.

But in the end, he found out that he was wrong.

The existence of slavery is no longer something that can be resolved by politics.

So he joined Spataco's rebel army, and he wanted to rebuild everything with sword and fire.

Although he failed, he still believed in human nature optimistically, but he felt that the current situation of the Old World was no longer something that mortals could change.

Then he met Augustus who came back for the slaves!

The true and only Augustus!
When he discovered the identity of the person in front of him, he was so surprised that he almost couldn't believe it.

He felt that everything was saved.

But now, the gladiators he trusted held high their daggers stained with the blood of Augustus.

The great Augustus fell at their feet, before the door of the cathedral.

These people are beyond help.
Quintus finally discovered the essence of his despair that he had been avoiding.

He felt that everything around him had become quiet, even though everyone was wailing and roaring.

He fell to the ground and stared blankly at the figure lying on the ground like him.

The difference is that there is mud and sand under me, while there is his own blood under him.

Is it all over?!
How can this be?
Anyone can die, but not this person.
Quintus bowed his head in deep despair.

It was also the moment when Quintus lowered his head.

The strong man named Gannico leaped over his body and rushed towards the gladiators with a roar.

The huge noise and momentum made Quintus raise his head slightly.

Gannico didn't know much, but he knew that it was Augustus who saved him and his sister in the stands of the hippodrome.

So at this moment he just wanted to kill those damn traitors to avenge Augustus.

He leaped over Quintus' head like a flying leap, and with his tremendous brute strength and fearless courage, he chopped off a gladiator's dagger that was trying to block his attack.

Thereby directly slashing the opponent diagonally.

After dealing with an enemy, Gannico did not stop. He continued to roar and charge forward. Behind him, there were slaves like him and gladiators following him.

At this moment, Ganiko and others seemed unstoppable, because they were no longer afraid of death. They just wanted to drag this group of traitors to hell with them.

As for the other side, they had already killed Augustus, and as long as they waited until everything was over, they would become governors, generals, and great nobles.

They don't want to fight, they don't want to get hurt.

So they were suppressed instead and could only retreat in embarrassment.

The gladiators standing in front of Augustus spat, then grabbed Augustus's body and tried to hide inside the temple. At this moment, they finally felt the elders' joy as they grabbed Augustus.

Even the great Lord of the World died at the hands of a man like himself.

But what he didn't expect was that as soon as he raised his hand, he was blocked by an invisible barrier.

The deep passage was right in front of them, but they couldn't get in!

The opening steps were imperfect, and they killed Augustus too early?!
After realizing this, the gladiators' faces turned pale in an instant.

This will greatly reduce their rewards!
In great loss and anger, knowing that they had no way to retreat, they could only vent their anger on Ganniko and others behind them.

The gladiators who killed Augustus were the strongest among the slaves. In order to satisfy the insatiable desires of the Roman nobles, many of them were even extraordinary people of high sequence. That was why they were placed next to Augustus.

They pushed their companions away, stepped on the bodies of the gladiators who were also stabbed to death by them, and faced Gannico and others with a grin.

There is no need to use any abilities belonging to the path of God.

One block, one unload, one stab.

After three extremely skillful moves, Ganniko looked at the dagger that pierced his heart in disbelief.

No matter how angry he was, he couldn't fill the gap between him and the top gladiators.

The other party didn't even bother to look at him and pushed him away from the sword.

He then slowly walked forward to face the remaining enemies.

Ganiko stretched out his hand to grab the enemy who was moving away from him.

But with a pierced heart, he had no strength left.

He could only fall to the ground unwillingly.

Then he was carelessly trampled into the bloody and muddy soil by the other gladiators.

The outcome of this battle was doomed from the moment the slaves chose to betray.

Although Gannico fell, Quintus stood up.

Ganiko made him see the last bit of humanity on this continent, and also made him realize the only thing he should do at this moment.

That means killing the other person!
Kill these traitors!
Inside the excavation site, gladiators and slaves were still fighting each other.

Outside the excavation site, it was completely one-sided.

The people who were totally unprepared could only rely on the pickaxes, shovels and other things in their hands that could hardly be considered weapons to fight the enemy.

They don't even know who are the enemies and who are the companions.

They had seen more than once that when their companions tried to help up a fallen slave, they were slashed in the neck by the knife hidden by the other party.

He could only fall to the ground in disbelief and look at the other person laughing wildly.

They had seen more than once that people who were once companions, after realizing that it was impossible to win, simply smashed their companions' heads with pickaxes and joined the betrayers.

They could only be forced to fight on their own, and then be killed by slaves whose number they could not even see.

The sun was still in the sky, but it was unclear whether the blood had obscured their eyes, or whether the sun itself was really dyed a bloodthirsty scarlet by all this.

The slaves had even begun to fight each other for the spoils.

They followed the example of the former barbarians and cut off the heads of corpses one after another as proof of their military exploits. But soon, they would be killed by the other slaves and their own heads, which still had smiles on them, would be cut off instead.

There are fewer and fewer people still fighting, and more and more slaves are reveling.

Everything on the periphery is about to come to an end.

The same is true at the excavation site.

There were only a few people left around Quintus.

And there were at least thousands of gladiators in front of them.

The leader made it even more difficult for Quintus to believe that he would betray him because he killed General Gary with his own hands.

At the same time, he was the one who personally stabbed Augustus with the first sword.

Looking at the gladiator dancing with swords constantly moving back and forth in front of him, Quintus asked:
"Why you?"

The gladiator didn't answer, but just smiled disdainfully.

What else could he answer to a dead man?
However, a voice came from the sky:
"Answer him!"

The Roman fleet finally arrived.

Or rather, they were not in a hurry at all. They were just admiring everything from a distance using various techniques.

The arrival of this moment is also because the emperor and the dignitaries want to observe everything from close range.

The person who spoke was the current emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Augustus Constantine IV.

In response to the emperor's voice, the gladiator bowed his head deeply in utter flattery.

"Yes, my Lord!"

In response to this, Quintus said with deep disdain:

"Augustus asked you to be a human, but you went back to be a dog!"

This should have been a soul-searching question, but the entire scene, from the slaves below to the dignitaries above.

The only thing they could do about this was to laugh at it from the bottom of their hearts.

(End of this chapter)