Chapter 322 The Arena Kicks Off

• By the time it was almost nine, the guests had all filed in. A quick scan said there were at least fifteen or sixteen hundred people—hundreds more than usual. The beast-fight was finally about to start.
• First up, as always, was the nightly host. Her entrance was pretty wild: she rose slowly on a lift and stepped into the center, into a steel cage barely as tall as a person.
• The second she showed up, the whole place exploded—screams, whistles, every loud, messy sound you could imagine, roaring through the arena.