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Chapter 1752 - 532: The Beginning of a Slave Uprising Sweeping Across the Southern Continent

Chapter 1752: Chapter 532: The Beginning of a Slave Uprising Sweeping Across the Southern Continent

Just two streets away from the central Gladiator Arena is Beast Street, the largest live cattle trade market and also the largest slave market in Giant Spirit City.

When Leonard Churchill arrived, the slave market was teeming with people.

The shabby shanties are the main architecture of the entire street block, and the air is permeated with a faint stench of urine and feces.

Ever since Dead Dragon Marlodis returned from the Underworld, triggering the factional wars between Metal Dragons and Color Dragons, the slave markets of the entire Southern Continent have suddenly burst into flames.

The "King of the Gladiators Challenge" is also a Feast for the slave masters.

The event attracts a large number of nobles from various regions of the Empire to watch, and they also need to purchase robust slaves to participate in the war.

This also adds fuel to the business of trading slaves.

A massive number of War Slaves are shipped to Giant Spirit City; at this moment, shanties on both sides of Beast Street are stuffed with slaves of various skin colors.

Male slaves only wear a piece of loin cloth, and most female slaves are naked from the waist up, displayed like cattle for sale for buyers to pick and choose from.

Transcendent slaves are wearing Slave Collars, while ordinary slaves are simply locked with iron chains and hemp ropes.

Leonard Churchill walks down the street, where he can see the gaudily dressed nobles everywhere, who, while pinching their noses at the foul smell of the slave market, are enthusiastically picking the slaves they favor.

There are also buyers from ordinary wealthy families on the streets.

They come to pick slaves to work on their farms, or to serve as domestic servants.

Ordinary pure-blood human slaves are the cheapest; a few Gold Coins can buy a relatively good-looking female slave.

The price of male slaves capable of physical labor is slightly higher.

Transcendent slaves are expensive, and the higher their tier, the higher their price.

For instance, High Tier slaves of Third Tier and above start at a price of tens of thousands of Gold Coins. A war demands the consumption of thousands of slaves, which is purely a competition of financial expenditure.

Thus, prisoners captured on the battlefield are top-quality War Slaves.

This has also become the hottest commodity recently.

"Boss, want to buy some slaves? These girls are maidservants from a small Noble Family in Westmas County, literate, familiar with noble etiquette, and at the prime age for childbearing, very suitable as maids..."

"These are Apprentice Knights from Elres; oh, they are even stronger than bulls, a few men can do a whole farm’s work. Of course, they also make excellent guards..."

"These are Ceres people, descendants of an ancient Royal Family. They’re the best ’breeding stock’ with a chance of giving birth to high-purity Dragon Blood offspring..."

"..."

As Leonard Churchill walks by, observing, the Slave merchants enthusiastically hawk their wares.

The samples on display are all top-quality, the female slaves look and figure are excellent, and the male slaves are robust and tall.

As Leonard Churchill strolls down the street, he sees many new slaves who are obviously captives from battlefields.

They are covered with scars, and their eyes still hold a knight’s pride and unwillingness to accept their fate, which is distinctly different from the numb gaze of the old slaves.

Leonard Churchill has inquired about intelligence; that "Blue Knight" Konabos, suspected to be the Lord of Soldier Calamity’s God Descending Vessel, is a Ceres person with a natural warrior bloodline, the famous Great Knight Commander of the Blue Cross Legion. Later, due to the surrender of the lord whom the legion had been loyal to, the entire legion became War Slaves.

It is said that the Commerce Guild has offered a deal: if he can win the crown of this King of the Gladiators, he and his old comrades could be pardoned and regain their status as Commoners.

But in reality, his comrades from the Blue Cross Army had already been sold by Slave merchants for a good price.

The seeds of revenge have been planted.

It fits perfectly with some fragmented information Leonard Churchill got from the Black Market before, indicating that someone is plotting a jailbreak in Giant Spirit City...

In Leonard Churchill’s eyes, the entire Cause and Effect chain of this event is complete.

It was laid out long ago and has only begun to surface after a long time.

That Outer God has chosen His Chosen One.

The Ceres people were royalty during the civilization era of Altranc, and now with the return of their former emperor, Dragon God Marlodis, there is already sufficient cause for an uprising.

And where there is an uprising, class contradictions are bound to intensify.

With the harsh slavery system on the Southern Continent, such contradictions have long been irreconcilable.

Especially those War Slaves who are about to be sent to the battlefield, their eyes harbor complex and extremely suppressed emotions.

Leonard Churchill’s Clown Mask enables him to keenly capture various negative emotions, and simply walking around the slave market, he could feel that overwhelming negative emotion.

It’s like the terrifying pressure accumulated before a volcanic eruption; even though it hasn’t erupted yet, one can already sense the air of apocalyptic danger.

However, because War Slaves have explosive collars on their necks, that’s why these tens of thousands of slaves in the slave market have not caused any trouble.

This contradiction is not only in Giant Spirit City but in almost every city on the Southern Continent.

If someone could unlock the collars around the necks of these slaves and arm them even a bit, it would inevitably lead to a wildfire-like great commotion.

As Leonard Churchill walks, he also visualizes many scenarios in his head.

He sees a rebellion that has long been in the making, now truly brewing.

Unwittingly, he has already arrived at the alley behind the main street.

This is where the Slave merchants’ "warehouses" are, where the stench is far worse than the main street.

As Leonard Churchill walks in, he sees cramped warehouses filled with slaves without a shred of clothing.

The rooms are so crowded that slaves only have just enough space to sit, and urine and feces are piled up inside the warehouse.