Martial Arts Worlds

'What is this immensely dark aura I am feeling from him?'

Ama wondered, and at that moment, the Black Qi uniform dissipated into nothingness, and the many "clones" of Kiernan also disappeared.

She didn't think anything of it and instead pointed her hand at Kiernan.

"Push of the Benevolent Lover!"

The trees, rocks, and debris of the broken island all started flying towards Kiernan with deadly force.

"…"

In that moment, Kiernan stood still, and the Black Qi uniform wrapped tightly around his body like armor.

'…Despite the upgrading, I can still use the Black Qi ability. This means that I basically have two abilities now, both different types… That is insane.'

Kiernan thought with a grin, and then, he reached out his hand towards the flying objects, and a black vortex started forming around his palm.

"Mastered Iron Style, Black Hole!"

The flying objects slowed down because of the gravity pull of the black vortex, and the gravity was even stronger than that of Ama's magnetic pulling powers!

"Eh? Move!"

Ama screamed and tried to push the objects at him, but they didn't budge and instead seemed to listen way more to Kiernan's powers.

"Mastered Iron Style, Reversal Darkness!"

Kiernan waved his hand, and the objects flew back towards Ama with incredible force.

Her eyes widened in surprise, and she shielded herself behind her arms. The islands crashed into her at full force and sent her sliding backwards through the forest.

However, her durable Martial King body shielded her from most of the damage, but her health did slightly drop.

[-125 HP]

[HP: 875]

"What the hell is this power? This feels way more like Kinetra powers… Are your powers actually a Special kind?"

Ama asked in shock.

She just couldn't understand the concept of Kiernan's powers, as it seemed like he had more than one power, which was just stupid to think about.

It was impossible to have more than one Martial Ability, and till this date, no one had ever had more than one.

Not at least during the recorded history, but during the Old Stone Age, some of the history was lost or forgotten.

Still, in over two thousand years, there had never been users with multiple Martial Abilities, and thus, Kiernan couldn't be the first either!

Thus, she believed that he must actually be Special type user.

Special types were always so strange, as they were unique powers that didn't follow the normal rules of Martial Abilities.

"Go, master!"

"You are doing great!"

The students of the Martial Redemption Dojo were cheering for their powerful master with excited looks.

They were shocked that Kiernan was pretty much in complete control of the match.

There hadn't been anything that Ama could do against their master, and while her ability looked very powerful, she was still on the losing side!

The rest of the crowd looked surprised at the dominance that Kiernan was showing.

"Mastered Iron Style, Void Step!"

Kiernan traversed across the island in half-of-a-blink's time and appeared before Ama with his fist reeled behind him.

Ama reached her hand towards his fist and pushed it away from her, but Kiernan immediately swung his left and whacked her across the face.

She flew through the air and landed on the ground with a painful thud.

[-300 HP]

[HP: 575]

"Aaaaaargh!"

Ama raised her hand high, and the ground below them cracked open, and a stream of lava shot up towards Kiernan.

He touched the ground with his hand, and then, black smoke billowed from his hand and covered the entirety of the island in a thick, suffocating cloud.

With her feet touching the darkness, she started to feel sick and could tell that she couldn't use her powers on the island anymore.

It was because of that black smoke that was covering the island. It had strange gravity-like powers that overpowered her ability.

Ama's vision turned hazy, as if the darkness was making her ill, and she stumbled to the side, almost falling over.

"Mastered Iron Style, Black World!"

Kiernan said, and then casually started strolling towards her while the darkness was actually making him healthier.

If he had any injuries, the darkness would've already healed him entirely.

He didn't know, but healing powers such as that were extremely rare, and it was usually Kinetra-type users that would have healing powers.

Thus, it made sense, despite it being rare, that he could also heal himself.

"A-Ah…"

Ama collapsed on one knee, and she started choking.

"…Tch."

Kiernan touched his head and shook his head as he felt the Uncontrollable Demons inside him acting up.

These darkness powers were actually making it harder for him to control the demons. The same thing happened with Black Qi.

The more he used Black Qi, the harder it became.

Now he was using both Black Qi as armor and the Black Darkness powers as a means of attack, which made it twice as hard.

"Do you yield?"

Kiernan said with a slight struggle in his words.

"Hehe…"

Ama giggled and raised two fingers as a sign of surrender, as she was able to tell the difference between their strength.

"I-I truly hope that I get to watch a match between you and him…"

"Him?"

Kiernan asked.

"Yes, him… The strongest fighter of this tournament… If I were to guess, he is the one that will win, but with you in the midst, maybe you can put up a fight."

Ama said.

"Interesting."

Kiernan said, and the black smoke covering the island got sucked back into the palm of his right hand.

On the large screen, Kiernan's face appeared as the winner of the match, and the crowd erupted in cheers.

"Master!"

Cleo excitedly clapped her hands.

"A powerful show of power. I guess even we were underestimating his power."

Lumian said.

"…Amazing."

Jock said.

He didn't think that there would ever be a day when he was as strong as his master, but he wanted to be so badly.

"…"

Shiro watched with his arms crossed.

He had met many Martial Emperors in his life, who tried to get him to join their dojos, but for him, Kiernan was even more impressive than them even if he wasn't as strong just yet.

There was just something about him that screamed of absolute power.

"Good job~"

Aoi clapped her hands with a smile, and when she was done clapping, she touched her stomach tenderly with her left hand.