Prerequisite: Discover Kyrenaika
Suggested Level: 37
REWARDS: 3,000 XP, Rare Regular Sword
Speak to the Lanista
Read the sign (1) on the wall at the stairs of the gladiator arena, or just go to the gladiator school (2) to begin this quest.
The lanista says his champion fighter, the Thracian Bear, has escaped and there’s a bounty on his head.
Follow the Lanista
Follow the lanista into the next area to the west, where he will pit you against three of his gladiators.
Defeat the Gladiators
The Level 35 gladiators are pushovers compared to the gladiators you fought in the arena or any of the Roman soldiers you’ve crossed. Slaughter them to prove your worth. Use a long heavy blunt or heavy blade to strike multiple opponents at once.
Speak to the Lanista
Talk to the lanista, who just witnessed you slaughter his best remaining gladiators.
Reach the Farm Massacre
Travel northeast to the Silphion Farm (3), where two lions roam the grounds. Kill them so you can investigate the brutal scene at the farm.
Investigate the Massacre at the Farm
Inspect the mutilated bodies on the ground just outside the barn. Use Animus Pulse to find more clues, like the body facedown with arrows in its back inside the barn.
Inspect the two bodies bound and secured to the wall, one with a spear in the back. Shoot arrows into the well cover inside the barn to reach the clue that pings underneath the ground. Jump into the well.
Down below, you find a letter on a table: My Friends and Saviors.
Find Polymestor at the Finishing Village
Travel northeast to the fishing village (4) and find the gladiator on the beach. He tells you he threw the lanista’s sword in the sea.
Find and Retrieve the Lanista’s Sword
Send Senu up to locate the sword in the water just off the pier to the east. Jump off the pier and dive down to the marked sword. Interact with it to pick it up.
Return to Polymestor
Get out of the water and send Senu up to mark the soldiers who have now approached Polymestor onshore where you left him. Six soldiers surround him. Before you run up to the group, take a few of them out with arrows from a distance. Then run in and attack. Fight by the gladiator’s side to eliminate the threat.
After the battle is won, the Bear thanks you and lets you keep the Rare regular word: Sword of the Free. You do not need to return it to that shady lanista.