When Merion and dozens of gladiators arrived at the novice training ground.
The Lion Avodo was as tall as a tower. He was waiting for him on the training ground with his arms crossed over his chest.
Facing Avodo's cold gaze, Merion walked up to him.
"Buck Whitman, what can you pay for your freedom?" Avodo asked coldly.
"Everything but life and dignity."
"Can you give up your handsome, charming face, or one arm, one leg?"
"Yes," Merion replied without any hesitation. "I have to go back to my hometown freely. I don't care whether I'm disfigured or lack of arms or legs."
"Ha-ha." Avodo burst into laughter. "I made the right choice. Come with me."
Merion followed Avodo to a small courtyard made of the stone wall beside the training ground.
There was a circular cattle hide sandbag array in the yard, about five meters in diameter.
Several thick wooden piles were deeply nailed into the ground, and eight cattle hide sandbags, which were as tall as a person, were hung on the circular wooden shelf.
Behind each cattle hide sandbag, a strong man was waiting.
"This formation is specially prepared for you." Avodo motioned for Merion to stand in the middle of the small array with lines drawn on the ground. "They will push the sandbags in all directions to hit you. No matter what method you use, you must dodge. You can't jump out of the lines drawn on the ground."
"Can I only dodge in these sandbags?" Merion asked in confusion, "Can't I kick the sandbag back with my fists or legs?"
"No." Avodo replied coldly, "You can only dodge."
Merion shook the cattle hide sandbag and measured the distance between it and the ground with his hand. There were about thirty centimeters left under the sandbag, which could accommodate him.
Merion asked, "If I roll on the ground, the sandbag won't hit me."
"If you dare to roll on the ground, they will whip you." Avodo pointed at the whips on their waists.
"If you are hit by the sandbag and dare lie on the ground, they will also whip you."
"Be careful." Avodo pushed a cattle hide sandbag towards Merion. "They pushed the sandbag sometimes fast and sometimes slow, but not at a constant speed."
Merion jumped to the left quickly to avoid the sandbag. "How long do I need to stay in this array?"
"Half an hour for today." Avodo shook the sand clock in his palm and said, "I'll give you more time in the future."
"I thought you were going to teach me fighting skills. Why do you want me to dodge sandbag in this circle?"
"I'm already teaching you." Avodo said to the strong men, "Use the method I told you. If you knock him out, take off your whip and whip him up."
While Merion was lost in thought, a strong man had already pushed a cattle hide sandbag towards her.
Merion jumped right quickly to avoid the sandbag; Behind him, another strong man quickly pushed a sandbag towards his current landing point. Without a glance at the back of Merion's head, he was immediately hit by the sandbag that was pushed over from his back and stumbled, causing stars to rise in his eyes
Before he could react, the sandbag in front of him smashed at him again.
Merion was hit again.
Then the sandbags came one after another.
Merion had already been smashed in the sandbag array.
This time, he was directly thrown out of the circle by the thick cattle hide sandbag him from behind.
Fortunately, Merion was strong enough not to faint on the spot.
However, it hurt so much that his back was almost torn apart.
"Crack!" a sharp sound of a whip came from the air. Merion remembered what Avodo had just said and immediately rolled over from the ground. He bounced up and a whip hit the ground where he had just fallen heavily. A deep mark was pulled out from the sandy ground.
A cloud of dust rose.
Seeing that the second whip was coming at him again, he quickly ran back to the circle.
The strong man put away his whip and continued to push the sandbag.
The way the strong men pushed the cattle hide sandbag was just like what Avodo had said at the beginning. They were sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Every time, they saw that Merion escaped from the falling point behind the last sandbag and smashed at his current position.
Merion was knocked into the center of the array several times.
He looked at the blue sky and thought quietly.
There was another sharp whistling sound above his head.
The strong man who knocked him down quickly untied the whip on his waist and drew it at him.
Merion jumped up from the ground.
This time, in the sandbag array, he no longer paid attention to the punching sandbags in front of him as before.
Instead, he paid attention to the rules when these sandbags were pushed over.
Therefore, every time Merion dodged the sandbag in front of him, he immediately turned around and faced the back. Sure enough, the next sandbag immediately smashed from behind; after hiding from the sandbag behind him, he turned around again; then he dodged the punching sandbags in front of him, and his body became more and more flexible
Avodo stood outside the circular array with his arms akimbo, showing a slightly admiring expression on his face.
"Okay," Avodo ordered. "There is still one sandbag that hits him every time. But this time, not only the front and back but also the side sandbags on both sides can be added. He has to move quickly to cope with the situation."
The strong men agreed.
In less than half an hour, Merion, who was dodging in the cattle hide sandbag array, was covered in sweat. He knew how powerful the unremarkable formation was. It not only practiced people's dodging ability but also his resistance ability and extreme Endurance.
He didn't have time to peep at the sand clock in Avodo's hand.
He could only grit his teeth and concentrate on moving quickly to avoid the sandbags coming and going.
However, the speed of his body gradually couldn't keep up with the speed of his brain, and even his legs became more and more difficult to move.
Due to his slow reaction, he was hit by a sandbag on the backside again. Then he fell straight down and fell on the sand in the circle. His brain lost consciousness.
"Crack!" a sharp sound of whips rang out in the blur.
Merion wanted to roll on the ground, but his consciousness was unable to control himself. The tail of the whip scratched his back.
The pain made him sweat and sobered up in an instant.
When the second whip sounded, Merion sprang up from the ground.
"Time out." Avodo looked at the sand clock in his palm and said, "From now on, you have to practice in this sandbag for one more minute than the previous day. You must think about how to dodge these sandbags with your body quickly. Only in this way can you be flexible and save physical strength most."
The strong man who had just whipped Merion immediately took out a bottle of medicine from his pocket, walked over to help Merion apply it on his back and friendly patted him on the shoulder.
After Merion had a good rest, Avodo took him out of the yard.
"Buck Whitman, go and practice the fighting skills with other newbies,"
"Don't you teach me the fighting skills?"
"I need you to check what other people are practicing."
"Okay."
"In the afternoon, it's a duel between the gladiators. The one in charge of the training is 'leopard Drue' who took the triangle in the new show and finally rushed to the brothers. The newbie you killed is the one he wanted to train before the first show. I heard that he is his distant brother."
"In fact, I don't want to kill that new hand, but I have to choose at that time."
"You, Desen, and the new hand are the most qualified and the most training-worthy gladiators in that situation in the slave owner, Barney's mind. The 'leopard Drue' is just good at guessing and executing Barney's plan by the way." Avodo looked at Merion coldly. "Now that you have made your choice, you have to bear the anger of 'leopard Drue'."
Looking at Avodo's back as he left the training ground, Merion asked, "Do you agree with Barney and Drue? Do you want to keep such a despicable man who assaulted his companions on the spot?"
"Then York is dead! Most of the warriors here will prefer your choice. I'm just reminding you to take the consequences."
"Thank you, Lion Avodo."
Avodo's tall back raised his right arm and waved it upward.