Chapter 8 : He'd never dare

Under the moonlight James was sweating and carrying a large block of stone among the hundreds of slaves working on the construction of the coliseum.

He placed the block of stone on top of another before he sighed with fatigue.

"We only have 14 hours left in this world."

Then he looked at the tired slaves around him shaking his head.

It had been 2 days since Trisha had joined them, since then he had been working 20 hours a day building the Colosseum while training his Nen, he had already learned to use the Gyô without too much trouble, his only defect in controlling his Nen was that he didn't always manage to project his Nen.

His Zetsu is also improving, with a little more training he was sure to be able to use "IN".

"I've made a lot of progress. I hope cal will be enough for tomorrow's fights." He said as he picked up another bloc of stone.

At about 6 o'clock in the morning James was able to leave the construction site and go to rest, he went to a dark corner quite close to the coliseum and then closed his eyes and began to sleep.

After three hours, the sunlight woke him up, he stood up yawning while scratching his right cheek.

"I miss my bed, but anyway I'm a fugitive, I'm not going to have a comfortable bed when I get back."

He did some stretching before he climbed onto a nearby building. Once at the top, he lowered his head to avoid being noticed by the soldiers patrolling, while looking at the Coliseum being built.

"It's boring to wait..."

Time passed slowly, James continued to spy on the slaves building the coliseum while staring at the giant supervising the construction site, finally at about three o'clock in the afternoon a change occurred.

Slaves and guards including the giant all kneel on the ground at the arrival of a familiar figure.

They are St.Jalmack accompanied by Jenfetro and his slaves.

James then removed a piece of polished iron with a shiny surface and adjusted its angle to that of the sunlight, reflecting the light north and then east before jumping off the building.

Arriving on the back of a slave, Jackmal looked at the coliseum for a moment and then looked at the giant.

"Is this all you can do in three days?"

The giant hearing this started sweating profusely.

"Great lord, I have accelerated the speed of construction to maximum, the slaves' rest hours have been reduced to only four hours, I..."

"SHUT UP!"

Jalmack's cry made the giant tremble with fear, he didn't even dare raise his head.

"You mean to tell me you're giving slaves hours off work? They dare to rest!"

"Jenfetro kill him!"

"Lord I..."

Jenfetro withdrew the sword from his back, disappeared and then reappeared behind the giant before replacing the sword on his back.

Before the joyful eyes of the slaves the giant who tortured and exploited them every day was cut in half, torn like a piece of paper.

Some could not help laughing with joy at this scene, but their excitement was not over because just a moment later a big explosion resounded in the North.

*BOOM*

The earth beneath their feet shook under the power of the explosion, flaming debris rained down from the sky as huge black smoke rose to the sky.

The guards, the slaves and even Jackmal were stunned at this scene, Jackmal seeing the explosion immediately became angry.

"What the hell is going on?!"

One of the guards then immediately lowered his head and said.

"Lord this is the direction of the gunpowder stock, something must have happened there!!!"

"Go and see what's going on, you scum, hurry up before I kill you!!!" Jackmal shouted.

When the guards heard this, they were immediately frightened before they all ran towards the explosion.

"Yarasugi you'll take care of..."

But before Jackmal finished his sentence an extremely fast shadow took him and appeared two meters away holding him firmly while placing a piece of metal around his neck.

Yarasugi wanting to act stopped when he saw the piece of metal on Jackmal's neck.

"Dirty slave, how dare you touch me, I'll kill your whole family, I'll rip your skin off! Give your heart to my Tigers!"Jackmal shouted in anger, he was really angry, not only is his coliseum late in construction but someone also dared to touch him, he a celestial dragon, a superior being, a slave dared to touch him.

His eyes turned red with anger.

"You dare touch a celestial dragon, do you know what the consequences are?"

Yarasugi said to James.

James pretending not to hear it said in a calm and flippant voice.

"I know, I know, you'll kill me and my loved ones blah blah blah blah, well now listen to me carefully, tell the harbor guards not to stop me and I promise to let him go."

Jackmal laughed "Yarasugi, kills him, he'd never dare hurt me."

Yarasugi then approached, drawing his sword.

"Hahaha, hurt me if you dare hahah, Ouch, agh!!!!"

Before the stunned eyes of the spectators, James made a slight movement with the piece of iron in his hand, then the fingers of Jackmal's left hand fell to the ground under his screams.

"Agg! Agh! what is that feeling, yes the pain I'm in pain, I'm in pain, Yarasugi KILL HIM!! Boohoo, Agh!..."

Jackmal began to cry, blood spurted from his hand, an unpleasant smell spread through the air as a brown liquid dripped from Jackmal's pants.