Chapter 41: A Very Valuable Teaching.

Max lands with Sky Breaker over the Nargona forests. The emerald is kept with her sisters and the adventurers immediately head to Sky city, with their most precious achievements. Eight emeralds were collected, but Hod and Keter remain, to complete the ten. Next is Hod, waiting in the Roman Coliseum. They do not know how it will be after radiation and the possession of harmful spirits.

They rest in Sky city. They deserve a time of relaxation, of remembering and sharing the sensations and reliving every moment the danger of adventure, with the taste of duty accomplished. It is good to be among friends!

Soon they see the coliseum. The old structure where so many events took place, unequal struggles and the death of innocents, seems about to fall apart. There is little left of that empire in which in another time the bloodiest pages of humanity were written.

"Looks like no one is here," John says.