After his first match, Leo realised as he won several other matches that maybe his first opponent was really the ceiling of power this colosseum could offer.
even though there were some others he fought who were stronger but not by much their skill was fundamentally lacking and the more he fought the more bored he got.
there is also the fact that most of those who fought him except for a few were looking down on his current state of being a slave, so he wasn't polite with them.
he sent them all out of the stage with one blow.
at this state let alone running out of stamina he thought he might die of boredom instead so he thought to do something that could interest him a little
which is whenever someone came that was polite enough he would.....
"hey you have you never held a sword before? why the are you standing like that"
"sir i....."
"Stop talking and do what I said. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, then turn one foot forward and the other 45 to 90 degrees away. Your back should be straight, your weight distributed evenly between your feet, and your body slightly lowered. so that when you advance or retreat, your head remain steady does not move up and down as you move."
teaching!
that's what he thought about.
'Since I don't know how long I'll be in this colosseum and without a doubt I'll fight those gladiators more than once in that time, I'd rather strengthen them so they could help me a little to train as well although I am a spearman ,but when I was in the academy i read a lot of books about various weapons and martial arts.
so although I am not a master i can teach those idiots a little especially with their level'
"raise your sword slightly, looking at you now i fell as if you're asking me to stab you; you should know that when fighting against spearman, the sword is at a significant disadvantage due to the spear's length, a spearman can take your head before the sword reaches him."
As Leo tried to taught several gladiators, the audience split into two groups: those who booed at him to end the fight quickly and those who seemed to want to hear more from him as some of them were warriors and other want to learn ,so such teaching would definitely be beneficial to them.
leo himself was careless about the audience as he was teaching seriously
"…..One of the most important elements in fencing study is that of basic fighting stances and guard positions. Nothing is more fundamental than these two concepts. Stances or guards they are in many ways the very foundation of swordsmanship. The offensive and defensive postures and the ready positions from which to deliver all manner of blows lie at the heart of any fighting method. Unquestionably, All principles and techniques of fighting all are employed in relation to these postures. But they are not static postures, but dynamic from which you can go from strike to counter-strike."
Leo said that he discovered talent in a young gladiator who was younger than him, so he put more effort into training him.
"When sword fighting, there are many different sword stances and guards to choose from, such as On Guard Stance and others. There are probably over 20 sword stance combinations that you can do if you combine different weapons such as long swords, short swords, and katanas. It's vital to remember that these are only guidelines. Don't get pinned down in the details, or your position will become monotonous and predictable. Instead, concentrate on keeping your stance balanced and comfortable so that you can react quickly to changes in the fights...."
And just like that, Leo won 30 challenges with ease, but when the 31st came to the stage, a serious look appeared on his face, but this was not due to the opponent's strength,it actually have nothing to do with strength ; rather, it was the identity of the challenger that caused Leo's face to change not only him even the audience, as most of the them stood up from their seats, leaving less than half of the previous audience as they began to leave the colosseum, not wanting to watch anymore.
but as they were going out although ,they lower their voices leo could still hear some of their swearing at the mayor. and he couldn't blame them for that as that man was an inhuman demon disguised in human skin.
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The man in front of me wore different and unique clothes than the other challenges that came before, the 30 gladiators before him did not wear the same clothes instead they wore whatever they wanted but the man in front of me is different although his clothes were unique as other gladiators but even so those clothes are more so .
as from the moment one put his eye on them he would know what the identity of the person who wore them is in a moment as they stand out a lot, they were prisoners clothes.
yes the man in front of me is a prisoner, this is also the reason why the mayor tortured me before.
The mayor at the time said that I would fight several kinds of opponents ranging from gladiators to monsters to criminals, which I thought was fine, but what he said after that was where we got in a conflicted
flashback
"When fighting monsters, you must kill them."
"That's fine; they aren't intelligent anyway."
"When fighting gladiators, injuries are permitted but killing is not."
"of course not"
"when fighting criminals leave none of them alive"
"no i wouldn't do so i wouldn't take a human life"
"why they are just criminals"
"if they were true criminals i might have thought about it a little " and then start our conflict
flashback end
'That mayor even took me as a slave for his entertainment, when I did nothing to deserve such treatment, then his so-called criminals may as well be some innocent people who he threw his crime over. which I was not really wrong about as most of them after i found i investigat a little, these days were innocent people who had nothing to do with the crimes they bore ,they are only criminal as a result of keith's false accusation, He put them in the prison underground the Colosseum so that he could kill them through fights and erase his crimes from the records.Those audiences who left the Colosseum now were those who couldn't watch such a thing so they left; those who stayed are scum who enjoy the sight of killing or those who came to see their loved ones one last time before they died'
'Even though I told Doctor Doom a few hours ago that he did a good job killing that scum, I know that I can't kill. I've never done it, and if I will do it in the future, it will be for self-defense.or Someone deserving death but was not killed as result of some kind of protection ; otherwise, who am I to take human life? I read novels where the protagonist says that killing is difficult at first, but after a few chapters, he goes to the battlefield and says that he is numb to killing, that he doesn't feel anything about killing anymore, that that actually means that he is not human anymore ,if he can't feel nothing about killing .
those protagonist always says that they would go to the battlefield to gain strength, honour, and other things, so they weren't fighting for a noble cause, nor were they fighting invaders who were killing their people, at least most of them that I about read did,
they fight for shallow reasons like honour and fame.
they treat human life as if it was grass on the ground, and most of them have god-complexes, believing themselves to be superior to other humans.
that has happened many times in the history of men on Earth as well.
unlike them I can't and won't kill, and this bastard keith wants me to kill people about whom I know nothing, and most of them were innocent. Even those who had sinned of them were close to starving to death, so they stole some bread. and here he is saying that i should kill them ,with what right ??
so at that time i choose death rather than that.
But he didn't want to kill me, he tortured me instead.
Even now, when I knocked the man in front of me down, he is still torturing me for not killing him by sending an arrow that penetrated through my shoulder. I could have avoided it, but I didn't because he said he would kill prisoners if I did, so I only protected my vitals point and let him shoot.
And for the rest of the 19 challenges that came later, some of whom were old men, women, children, even young men, I only knocked them down while taking the arrows.
If I hadn't already been strong and protected my vitals, I would have died from the 20 arrows that stabbed through my body. The ground beneath me was full of blood, but I went through all 50 challenges while holding my head high.'
While walking through the waterway that leads to the stage's exit that i had painted red with my blood, I noticed that the audience, including the staff's expressions were frozen from speechlessness.
until I asked the staff to cuffe me again as i said to him
"I will surely die this time if you don't cuffe me quickly and send me to the medical room, so hurry please."
"ah yes sir," he said unconsciously with respect.
only then did the commentator regained his focus as he declared, "our grand winner today is the warrior leo."