I went straight to the magistrate. I needed him to log for me this so that I could be a citizen. He wanted some money. I gave it to him. That fulfilled the quest. I was happy to finally finish it. The bonus exp. for clearing it got me to level 17. I had all the rights that I wanted now. I could now get married, move to other areas of their empire, sue people, and have a trial even in the capitol of the empire. I don't think that the appeals would be needed. I really hoped that no one was going to try to bring me to court over something crazy. Now that I could get married, that would be something that I would be interested in. We heard of another tournament happening in Cirpio. I was a great fighter. I was going to participate in it because I believed I could win. Cassius and Caelus would be coming with me. I did not know if slaves could compete. I did want their company. Like I thought, when we got there, I was told that only free persons could be in the tournament. The twins would just watch from the stands. I ended up winning with them cheering me on. Now that I won this, it was time to leave Ainon.
Under the circumstances, I could go with my slaves at any time. We were going to cross the channel from Ainon towards the capitol regions. We could buy us some new property there. Getting away from Tertius would be good for all of us. I was good enough to make it on my own. Politics was not my goal at the moment. Since that was not something I needed, I did not need a patron. I had a great reputation out of the Ainon Province. When I moved into the capital province, the ship we were on was stopped. There was a lockdown. Apparently, there was a plague coming from islands in the sea on the other side of the peninsula. Due to this, we needed to go further north to the sub-peninsula. It was unfortunate. When we got off the ship, we were in the port city of Utinum. Utinum was not a province capital. Still, it was so close to the empire capital that it was developed enough to have a small one anyway. Being that the 3 of us were gladiators, we had to go and sign up. Neither the booker nor the big roster of freeman gladiators had heard of us 3. Ainon was just not important enough.
Very curious about the level of competition, I signed us up, but I did not book a fight just yet. This gladiator arena was not a big one, but had several boosts. This was a port city. I personally did not care. The game did. It made this settlement a center of trade. Lots of people moved through here. It was also in the adjacent province to the empire capital. Unlike with Ainon, several patricians were willing to invest in the fights and fighters. Because of this, they had a pit with 25 slaves instead of 10. Taking all of this into account, there was no doubt as to why there were 6 fights on the match card. That was 2 more than Ainon had. I hear that the colosseum in the capital city had a staggering 10 fights every week. There was a huge 5 on 5 melee to start. These were all gladiator slaves. The losers were executed. Cnaeus Helvetius was a freeman. He fought 2 gladiator slaves. He had a chariot. They did not. He won beheading them during his drive-bys. Gallio Cornutus and Postumius Epidius teamed against slaves. Paulus slew lions. Sextus Sittius won their main event. Oppius died.
