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Lucius Vorenus was a small, neat man with eyes like flint chips. He wasn't alone. Behind him stood a hulking figure in a black tracksuit—shaved head, a brutal scar across his nose, and the posture of a killer.

Decimus fell. Marcus pulled the gladius free and stood over him, breathing hard. He looked at the wealthy men in the audience—the senators of this new Rome. He looked at Tony Gage, whose smile had vanished.

Decimus emerged from a steam-filled door. He wore a muscle cuirass over his dress uniform trousers, a centurion’s plume on his head. He held a modern K-bar in one hand and an ancient gladius in the other. The crowd cheered.

Marcus went. Not for glory, but for answers.

They fought for ten minutes that felt like a lifetime. Decimus was stronger, more desperate. But Marcus had something the old gladiators never had: the muscle memory of a paratrooper. He used feints from hand-to-hand combat, low kicks, and the sharp geometry of the cage.