After forty-nine days, Mark Reuss appeared at the balcony on the second floor again. This time, the two female slaves that came with him had been replaced by a Persian and a Parthian. They were doing their best to serve him as he sat in a chair.
Mark Reuss, however, didn't seem too happy because the arena's attendance rate had dropped again in the past two months. He had to increase the number of battles Habitus had to execute every month, and even that only managed to bring back some audience to the arena. Simultaneously, the greedy Habitus had also taken the opportunity to ask for a larger share and his commitment to growing him as the school's trump card.
