CIRCUS MAXIMUS
Cain has conquered nations. He has reshaped governments. Now he intends to resurrect an empire.
Under Lord Caesar Cain, the Circus Maximus rises again—not as a ruin from antiquity, but as the spectacular centerpiece of his new world. Cain reaches back to the glory and brutality of Imperial Rome, restoring the pageantry of the Caesars on a scale the ancient emperors could never have imagined.
The banners return. The trumpets sound. Chariots thunder before enormous crowds. Gladiators once again enter the arena, while the world watches the games through a global media network. Ancient spectacle and modern technology merge into something terrifyingly new.
To Cain, the games are more than entertainment. They are a demonstration of power. The arena becomes a place where heroes are manufactured, enemies are humiliated, and loyalty to the new order is celebrated before millions.
Yet one prize remains beyond Cain's reach.
John Roddenburg.
The former Bear News anchor who once commanded an audience of millions has rejected Cain's world and everything it represents. That defiance makes John more valuable to Cain than any ordinary prisoner.
Cain does not simply want him captured.
He wants him in the arena.
He wants the world watching when John Roddenburg walks through the gates of the new Circus Maximus and faces whatever Cain has prepared for him.
For Cain, it would be the ultimate spectacle: the voice that once challenged the new order forced to fight for his life before the very world he tried to warn.
Rome has returned.
The games have returned.
And Caesar wants his gladiator.
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