Sacrifice: Time of Mine

Chapter 229: Galion's Request

"I am very concerned about your mental state, Galion." Matriarch Quaire looked at him with worry.

"Matriarch... I am fine." Galion was perplexed upon hearing this, 'Was this just a ploy or is there something else happening here?'

"I guess I got confused since she's also a dragon lady." he muttered and continued, "Anyway, Matriarch, can I request something?"

"Of course, you can, ELDER Galion!" Matriarch Quaire smiled.

'This pressure...' Galion sighed, 'Does she think that I will request something personal? I know I've been pushy more than a century ago before she became a Matriarch but now, I'm old and don't have any energy for that kind of relationship. Why can't I reach Rank Es...?'

While the old man bitterly pondered, the Matriarch continued, "You've done a lot, ELDER Galion. As long as it is not PERSONAL, I will fulfill."

"Okay, okay, what do you think of me?" Galion scratched the bald spot on his red hair.

"Did you forget that you cheated on me one hundred and sixty-five times when you're on your 'mission' in Haliviana?" Matriarch Quaire shushed and snarled at the elderly.

"One hundred and sixty-four times, okay, but that was for leaving seeds!"

"Leave seeds, my ass!" 

"I can't anymore, you're already old-" the Matriarch suddenly plucked his hair in anger.

"Aw-! You made my bald sp- intentionally shaven part of my hair bigger!" 

"That's not the only thing I will pluck if you made any disgusting request!"

"You-! You don't have any respect for your elders!"

The Matriarch pulled his hair again.

"Ouch-!"

"I'm older than you!"

"Ah... I forgot..." Galion's face suddenly looked empty when he remembered that he just have a shorter lifespan, "But please, listen to me first. I just want the other prisoners to be brought to the colosseum."

"Huh?" the Matriarch released his pitiful hair before waving it to remove some hair strands, "But all prisoners will be put to the colosseum, excluding the Rank Es Penta Elementalist, from the start."

"Yes, I know." Galion combed his hair with a sad frown, "But I want specific people to be placed above their levels."

"Why is that?" Matriarch Quaire raised an eyebrow.

"I just want them to suffer. Especially that short-haired knight who almost killed my grandso-"

"Tsk!"

"... almost killed my grandson!" Galion angrily said.

"If that's just it, that's fine." the Matriarch shook her shoulders, "Just state, who do you want to be placed onto a higher level of the stadium?"

"The short-haired knight called Edora. She's Rank Dih now but she has the strength of a Rank Cee so bring her to the stadium for Rank Bih!"

"Eh? Two ranks higher? I can allow Rank Cee but if we place a Rank Dih in a stadium for Rank Bih, the audience will surely protest."

"Hmph! Let them protest, Matriarch. Soon, they will know that she's fit there." Galion snorted.

Matriarch Quaire mused and nodded, "Well, it is a request, after all. So okay. Then who's next?"

"Avion Teller..." Galion squinted his eyes solemnly.

"Avion Teller? What rank is he?"

"Mortal"

"Oh... that mortal is unlucky that he offended you." the Matriarch was pitying this man, "Then I'll put him in the stadium for Rank Eeh. He will surely die a horrible death there."

"No, put him in the Rank Ey stadium." Galion solemnly said, "Then make it a battle royale. Finally, promise the Rank Ey prisoner that if they killed Avion Teller, they will be granted freedom and a position."

"....." the Matriarch looked at this old man as if she was looking at a crazy... old man.

"No, also, the stadium needs to be locked with no hole for him to fit and get away."

"Are you still talking about the mortal or the Penta Elementalist?"

"The mortal, Avion Teller."

"And why do you need all those set up for a mortal?" just a little more and the Matriarch was thinking of pulling some more hair strands.

"He is like a Dark Elementalist and can escape with just a blink of an eye."

"Is he a mortal or an Elementalist!? Make up your mind, you expired retired!" the Matriach shouted in frustration.

But Galion stayed solemn and answered, "If I had to be honest... I think he is neither. Avion Teller shouldn't be underestimated. He may be as strong, if not stronger, as the Conqueress! I don't want to provoke him. So I want to use the prisoners to see what's the limitation to his strength."

"Seriously...?" seeing Galion's grave expression, Matriarch Quaire was speechless, "Just who is this Avion Teller?"

"He is a mysterious individual..." Galion then continued to walk into the light, exiting the underground labyrinth, leaving the Matriarch behind.

The Matriarch then looked at Galion's back in the light with her eyes half-closed, 'What is he doing acting cool and mysterious? Did he forget that I'm still the Matriarch and he needs to give me a full report later?'

She then walked up to him.

"Ouch-! My hair!"

Later that day, after the sunsets and the night approached...

"HAHAHAKAKAKA!" the Matriarch was laughing so hard, her laughter was getting weird.

"HAHAhaha... a mortal who is from the future? His father is the Lord Sorcerer? Then the Lord Sorcerer is the Ruler of the Universe and also, stronger than the True Gods? HAHAHA! I can't take this."

Only after a while did she calm down.

"Haysss... seemed that fool should retire already. He's been getting real senile. I'll put that Avion Teller in the mortal stadium. If he proved himself special in any way or dominated the stadium, that's when he will automatically be put to a higher level, one rank at a time. Maybe this Edora is not so strong either, so I'll put her on her level first."

The Matriarch then passed her orders and the next morning, the stadium opened.

The Continental Colosseum, created together by the four Supreme Royal Families in Reruon Mountain Land.

In the bird's eye view, one will see multiple colosseums that have different sizes and were positioned radially. There are six layers. On the last layers are the smallest stadiums which were for the mortals.

Rank Eeh, Dih, Cee, Bih, and Ey. The inner layers have that usual ascending order. The higher the level, the bigger the colosseum. In the middle was just one, the largest of them all, for the monstrous Rank Ey prisoners.

Or you could also call them gladiators.

But on the outermost layer, Avion stood at the edge of the stadium, facing a mortal old man.