The Four Territories by Stevie Collier

Author:Stevie Collier [Collier, Stevie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-10T06:00:00+00:00

Esh was given permission the next sun-cycle to skip his training and travel the long journey to the coliseum which was built at the other far end of the city of Zel. He was just as poor as his mentor which meant he had no currency to rent a transportation shagra nor did he have enough Reahlic coin to just pay for a ride. His feet would be his transportation. He packed himself three large meals for the journey and set off before the sun had turn to face him.

He couldn’t help but notice that the further he walked towards the other end of Zel how much the housing seemed to become more and more… habitable. And not just the houses but the streets around them were so much cleaner and filled with vendors selling delicious smelling foods and all sorts of different luxuries Esh had never seen.

The bottom of his boots no longer stepped onto ash but onto cleanly swept roads which somehow made the world around him seem so much brighter. The humanoids who walked on these roads didn’t seem to notice how clean their living spaces were. They wore clothing of all different colors and shiny jewelry around their necks and in their ears.

This was also Esh’s first time seeing slaves. They looked exactly like the humanoids from the slums he had grown up in except now that they ported collars around their necks which were connected by thin ropes with the other end held in a tight grip by the owner.

Each slave was highly malnourished, their ribs poking through their dark skin with only a small piece of garment to hide their genitals. Esh had to look away from the females for they were given no coverage for their breasts. It took every ounce of self-control in him to stop from releasing all of their bindings and helping them run back to their ghettos. Absolute sorrow hit him hard in his heart and he now knew what he would wish of the king.

Most everybody stopped their business to turn towards the giant dressed in drabs now walking down their streets. Their astonishment with his size was quickly followed by looks of utter disgust at the way he was dressed. At least the humanoids in his neighborhood had the decency to ignore him.

He didn’t care what others thought about him, he was long past caring about stuff like that for he already wore a mark of their disapproval on his chest. There is nothing worse they could do to him now.

It wasn’t long before the coliseum began to peak over the horizon. It looked as though it could hold half the city inside its walls. The structure itself was made entirely of obsidian rock which Esh knew to be a volcanic glass that was almost as expensive as granite. The coliseum was so beautiful and shiny that it was hard to believe that it was made for humanoids to fight and die within it. It was way more beautiful than how the books described it.

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