Due to their lack of decisive power, Zafar instructs Cestvs and his companions to train all day every day by digging with pickaxes. Though his companions complain, Cestvs regards Zafar's word as his only ray of hope and continues digging. Meanwhile, a pair of messengers arrive to announce a fighting tournament held by the emperor. Emperor Nero himself has ordered that Cestvs participate. He seems to be unable to escape him... With indescribable uncertainty in his heart, Cestvs participates in the qualifier in order to win his freedom. However, the arena is a wooden structure resembling a run-down cage.
A fighting slave like yourself would 
most likely be granted his freedom.
سيُمنح عبد مقاتل مثلك
حرّيته على الأرجح
Einem Sklaven würde wahrscheinlich
die Freiheit geschenkt werden.
Lo más probable es que a un púgil
esclavo le concedan la libertad.
Lo más probable es que a un púgil
esclavo le concedan la libertad.
Pour un esclave,
c’est l’occasion d’être affranchi.
Per gli schiavi combattenti,
la ricompensa sarà probabilmente la libertà.
Um escravo lutador como você certamente
receberia sua liberdade.