Chapter 6: Raise
The next day, Ethan slept until noon before getting up.
After getting up, he washed slowly, ordered a tomahawk steak for lunch slowly, and ate slowly.
Everything was based on slowness.
In fact, he used to be in a hurry and rushed everything.
In order to improve his strength, he studied hard every day, and he didn't eat well and didn't sleep well.
All this was not what he wanted. After experiencing the fast-paced life in the 21st century, anyone would want to live a slow-paced life of poetry and pastoral, but there was no way.
Rand Mitchell was like a huge rock pressing on his heart, making him breathless.
In order to survive, he had to fight hard.
But now that he has broken away from everything, started again, and has the hope of promotion, he feels that he should slow down.
According to the old saying, build high walls, store up food, and slowly become king.
Only when you are strong enough and take back the territory that belongs to you, can you live a happy and prosperous aristocratic life.
The efforts now are to stop working hard in the future.
He even thought that once he got back what belonged to him, he would build a semi-modern territory.
There should be a complete drainage system, a powerful heating system, a large bathtub, a convenient toilet, a comfortable sofa, a maid with a pretty face and a graceful figure...
Of course, a pure copper hot pot should be built, so that when winter comes, there will be heavy snow outside, and he will be in a warm and comfortable room with a few friends eating hot pot and drinking wine...
Looking forward to the future, Ethan smiled unconsciously.
Of course, after saying so much, he has to slow down. The main reason is that he is waiting for the [Short] skill to cool down.
Looking at the [Short] skill that has cooled down, Ethan immediately stood up, put the Champion Blade on his waist, and walked towards the door.
As soon as he walked to the door of the hotel, he met an old acquaintance.
The guard Locke was waiting for him at the door with a carriage.
Seeing Ethan coming out, Locke said with a smile: "Mr. Ethan, I am here to pick you up on the orders of Mr. Milochi!"
Hearing this, Ethan's heart skipped a beat.
He actually didn't want Milochi to come to watch the fight. First, it was meaningless, and second, it was too ostentatious.
At first, he just said it casually to delay time, but he didn't expect the other party to really come.
But since he's here, what can he do?
Ethan smiled: "Thank you for your trouble!"
As he said, he got on the carriage.
This is a four-wheeled carriage with a large space inside. The seats at both ends are covered with thick cushions, which are very comfortable to sit on.
Because it's not far from the gladiator training ground, Ethan arrived at the destination before he even had time to sit.
After getting off the car, Ethan followed Locke all the way to the training ground.
At this time, the area around the field was full of people. In addition to the original gladiators, there were more than a dozen people in gorgeous clothes, both men and women.
The middle-aged man in the middle was thin, with sharp eyes and various gem rings on his hands, looking like a nouveau riche.
"I guess this man is Miloch!" Ethan thought so.
The man in the middle was indeed Miloch. More than a decade ago, he was just a fisherman, living a precarious life.
However, relying on the dividends of the times, he became a famous wealthy businessman in Maro City in just a few years.
His history of making a fortune is also quite interesting. Due to the frictions between the Aslan Empire and the Orc Country on the border, both sides stationed heavy troops. There were no major wars, but small wars continued.
Maro City is located in the rear of the Aslan Empire, belonging to the plains area, and has always been an important grain-producing area of the empire.
The food for the front line is basically supplied from here.
In the past, the food transported to the front line was transported by road, and the loss in the middle was very large. Often, there was 100% of it when it set off, but only 30% or even 10% when it arrived in the north.
When he discovered this shortcoming, he partnered with a few friends, rented a few small boats, and made a fortune on the border by reselling food and weapons through innovative sea transportation.
However, this business was immediately stopped because the risk at sea was too great. In order to protect the safety of citizens, sea transportation was no longer allowed.
He also stopped this business, but he also earned his first pot of gold by taking risks in the early stage.
And he was also very business-minded. He invested in other industries with this pot of gold, and made a lot of money in each industry. It didn't take long for him to accumulate huge wealth.
Now that he has money and a wide range of knowledge, he knows that having money is useless in this society.
If you want to really gain a foothold in this society, you must have power and your own territory, so he thought about seeking a noble status.
But the noble status is not so easy to get.
Generally speaking, this status is born with it, and if you don't have it, you basically don't have to think about it.
At present, he can only fight hard on the front line and rely on military merits to barely have a chance to fight for a way out.
However, how can he go to the front line to earn military merits?
So he wanted to win over other powerful nobles and forge a military merit for him to exchange for a noble status.
But nobles are not something you can win over just because you have money, so he catered to their preferences and founded a gladiator team, which is now the favorite competition of nobles.
Although he himself was not interested in the gladiator business, thinking it was a sport for barbarians.
But through the gladiator team, he did make friends with many nobles.
And today, hearing that the legendary gladiator was going to compete, he naturally brought many nobles he had made friends with to watch the game.
This had nothing to do with Ethan, but Ethan actually saw Rand Mitchell, who had taken his territory, in the crowd.
"Why is he here?" Ethan screamed in his heart: "If he sees my true strength, my life will be in danger later!"
As a knight, Rand Mitchell came to protect a viscount's son.
He naturally saw Ethan, frowned slightly, turned his eyes away, and pretended not to see him.
When Miloch saw that the main players had come, he came out and said a few polite words, and then took the nobles to the VIP area to watch the game.
There was a simple tent there, filled with all kinds of fresh fruits.
Rand Mitchell mixed in the crowd, and when everyone was not paying attention, he made a throat-cutting gesture to Anderrick.
Anderrick nodded slightly, and before the game started, he suddenly said loudly: "Dear nobles, it's rare for you to come to watch the game.
In order to make everyone happy, I propose that this game should follow the regular gladiator game process, and sign a life-and-death duel agreement first, and the dead will have no complaints!"
When everyone heard it, they all cheered.
"That's the best!"
Milochi saw that everyone was happy, but he was a little embarrassed.
Because Ethan walked to Milochi and said, "I give up today's duel, I don't want this job anymore."
Milochi was shocked when he heard it.
He invited so many nobles to watch the fight, but Ethan said he would give up if he wanted to. Isn't this asking for his life?
Of course, he can understand Ethan.
There are bounties in gladiator matches, and he just offers a job and wants people to fight to the death, which is obviously unrealistic.
So he quickly said, "The winner, in addition to the job, can also get a bounty of 600 gold coins. What do you think, Mr. Ethan?"
When Ethan heard the bounty of 600 gold coins, he immediately gave up the idea of hiding his strength.
Why did he work hard to find a job? It was just for money. 600 gold coins were definitely enough for him to live for a long time.
And when Rand gestured to Anderdrick just now, others didn't see it, but he saw it.
Since he already knew that the other party wanted to kill him, hiding his strength would at most delay for a while, and it would not change the result.
Instead of doing that, it would be better to take the 600 gold coins and leave Maro City first, and then come back for revenge when you have the strength.
So Ethan smiled and said, "Deal!"
