The large square was devoid of any noise.
The area of the square was comparable to that of an official stadium. Rather, it was bigger by two notches.
To the left and right sides of the square were grandstands each. More accurately, those were not grandstands. They were called the ‘arbitration stands’.
Indeed, it was known as arbitration stand within Zero City.
According to the ancient rule of Zero City, the results for everything that happened in the square rested in the hands of those seated upon the arbitration stands.
To the left of the centre most position was a lone metal platform. Only one seat was placed there, a seat that was slightly higher compared to the other seats in the surrounding area and also located further away from the other seats.
This was the place for the genuine controlling arbiter. This figure would usually be an invited figure, an illustrious expert from Zero City’s Angel Corps.
1. Tian Ji is a general in the Warring States Period. In a horse racing event where there are three matches of best horse vs best horse, average horse vs average horse and inferior horse vs inferior horse, Tian Ji kept losing every race. The strategist Sun Bin noted that there was not much difference in quality between the horses within the same categories.
Thus he suggested to Tian Ji to go inferior horse vs best horse, best horse vs average horse, average horse vs inferior horse. Some disguise was thrown in and Tian Ji won two of the three horse races.