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any means, but it was the largest major city to lay so closely to the land’s surface. Due to this, it served as the commoners’ metropolitan.
    Now walking, instead of flying, the two passed a grinder drone arguing with two hunters. As things escalated, he spat acid in one of the hunters faces as the other hunter stuck him through the face with his blade.
    The drone fell to the floor and convulsed out the rest of his existence alone on the ground. The hunter that stuck him payed no mind to the dying drone as he went on to help his friend who was screaming and holding his face as it melted away in his hands.
    “It never used to be this way,” Lai-Kai claimed while walking on ahead. She payed no more mind to the rowdy outburst than a meager glance.
    All his life, Kio-Kai knew nothing but violence, but Lai-Kai was right, the elders spoke of peace amongst the clans for many generations before the overlords split them apart.
    The city was impressive and diverse in its intricate sharp architecture. Large holes reside on all sides of the greater edges, highways interconnected other cities and stretched to cover over an eighth of planet Flare’s entirety.
    The Vai-Zik empire stretched as far as it could build its cities within the earth. Spanning from the farthest reaches of the western border of the empire lay underground lava streams that flowed to the southernmost section. To the north: worms, golems, and rebel outcast clans claimed barren wasteland. This left expansion to the east as the only option for growth. Though since falling into the malfeasance grasp of the overlords, queens had halted all expansion. More land wasn’t needed with a declining populous. Nonetheless, the Vai-Zik empire was vast and what they owned they owned in plenty.
    Ahead stood the great colosseum. It towered over all other buildings within the city. Lai-Kai and Kio-Kai took flight to enter the arena from above and avoid the massive lines that spilled out the structure’s many entrances: where gamblers placed bids on fights to come.
    The two found some seats high up in the stands of the east most side. The lower level was filling up quickly as the fights were to begin shortly.
    Kio-Kai surveyed the ground floor of the arena. Two main gates on both ends served as the entrance points for combatants.
    “So, who is fighting that makes this so special?” Kio-Kai asked.
    “Well, remember when Brutalius got injured winning that fight against the hydra worm?” Lai-Kai reminisced.
    “Yea, both were undefeated crowd favorites,” Kio-Kai answered.
    “Sure were. Brutalius ripped off each of the worm’s five relentless heads one by one. It was the craziest, longest fight I have ever seen and not once did the level of excitement drop. Anyway this is Brutalius’s debut return to the arena,” she excitedly explained.
    Brutalius once belonged to a civilization of stone golems called Anolems. Not to be confused with a Rock Giant: a nomadic four legged behemoth of stone who grew plant life along its enormous body and who actually fed upon the Anolems. The Anolems were a much smaller two legged race of purely jagged, molten rock. Despite being bulky, mighty, and boulderous warriors they were mostly considered to be a neutral faction when left alone. It was rumored that these stone lava golems were born from volcanoes and built up their thick outer coat shells from the consumption of nutrient rich rocks.
    Brutalius was captured by the Vai-Zik, as per demand, for the overlords. A champion within the arena, his wins were countless and it had reached a point where the overlords deemed it unfair for him to fight any outlaw or slave sentenced to the arena alone one-on-one. So teams were formed, some even given weapons or tools if they behaved well in captivity.
    Today’s match-up was a squad of four rebels to the Vai-Zik empire versus Brutalius. The four rebels belonged to a small clan that broke away in a resistance movement many years ago in response to the