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.
Roads are a nation's blood vessels.
الطرق بمثابة أوعية البلدان الدموية
Straßen sind die Venen und Arterien eines Landes.
Las carreteras son
las arterias de una nación.
Las carreteras son
las arterias de una nación.
Les routes sont les artères
d’une nation.
Le strade sono le arterie di una nazione.
Estradas são os vasos sanguíneos
de uma nação.
Дороги — кровеносная система страны.