War Of gods

Chapter Nine

Like an angry bull,Rhoetus attacked Perseus,knocking him down with his horns.

As Perseus staggered back to his feet,the hoof of Rhoetus struck him hard across his chest with the impact tossing him high in the air,he crashed into the statuette of Rhoetus at the center of the arena shattering it as they both went down in a crash.

The atmosphere of the arena was filled with jeers and drums as centaurs jeered their great leader to victory.

Perseus,now fully on his feet held his sword firmly as he anxiously waited for Rhoetus next move.

His body was covered with bruises,he was in an abysmal shape to fight the greatest of all centaurs.

Rhoetus once again lunged himself at Perseus with his sword ready to strike.Perseus,alert,dodged his swerving blade but wasn't fast enough to dodge his shield as its sharp corner struck him on his side.

Perseus groaned in pain as he crashed into the scraggy hot desert sand clutching his bleeding side.

Rhoetus being aware of his wound aimed his hoof at his bleeding side as he struck it severally causing Perseus more pain.

He picked up the debilitated Perseus by the neck and held him high up above him with his legs dangling in the air as he desperately gasped for air.

A spear was tossed to Rhoetus as the chant "Kill him" reverberated through the arena.Rhoetus picked up the spear,plunged it into Perseus wounded side and broke it so that a part of the spear remained buried in Perseus side.

He then hurled Perseus to the corner of the arena as echoes of jeers rang through the arena.Perseus was bleeding profusely as he watched Rhoetus approach him elegantly.

From no where a stranger descended from the jeering crowd.The stranger's face was hidden with a hood.He stood between Rhoetus and the bleeding Perseus.

His guards on spotting the stranger moved in to arrest him but were ordered back Rhoetus who saw the stranger as a new opponent.

The stranger walked up to the middle of the arena and touched the head of a bronze centaur sceptre affixed to the ground.

It was a sign that he wants a gladiatorial contest with Rhoetus. Rhoetus felt belittled as no one had ever requested to fight him.

Angry,he charged at the stranger with his sturdy horns.The stranger with an arm stretched towards the charging Rhoetus conjured water from the ground,he cause the water to form a solid rectangular slab by freezing it.

Rhoetus wasn't fast enough to notice the barrier,with a great thud he crashed into the frozen barrier to the surprise of the spectators.

The collision broke Rhoetus horns as blood trickled down his head.His guards tried coming to his aid but were stopped by him.It was a fight that held his ego and kingdom at stake.

Rhoetus feared that his anonymous opponent was the great Poseidon as he was the only one amongst few other gods who wielded such power.

Poseidon has longed been an archenemy of the centaurs.He once submerged the land of lycabettus where they lived into the sea killing most of them,only few survived.He regarded centaurs as troublesome creatures and thus was livid at the sight of them.

His hatred for centaurs began when one of their kind attempted to rape his daughter, Despoena.

The stranger,keen on ending the contest conjured water from the sky drawing out moisture from every angle,he forged the water into frozen spikes and projected them towards Rhoetus.

With his shield,Rhoetus protected himself from the spikes as they all struck the surface of his shield.Angry,he spined his shield towards the stranger,blades emerged from the circumference of the shield as it spined.

Raising his hand towards the shield the stranger froze the shied and propelled it back to the stunned Rhoetus. While Rhoetus attention was fixed on the swerving shield,the stranger picked Perseus sword and lunged himself into the air.

Before Rhoetus could dodge the spinning shield and avert his attention back to the stranger,it was too late as the blade of Perseus sword descended heavily on Rhoetus head slicing through it in a flick.

The arena went silent,the drums stopped as Rhoetus limp body stumbled to the ground.

Immediately Rhoetus death was confirmed,every one in the arena took to their kneels as they worshiped their newly crowned leader,Polyphemus the son of Poseidon who Perseus left with the three cyclops brothers.

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