Martial Arts Worlds

[Round of 16 - Kiernan Hunter vs. Rizzo Lord]

The crowd cheered as the two mighty fighters clashed in the arena in a battle between fire and darkness.

"Fire Punch of the Sun God!"

Rizzo screamed, his entire body burning with brilliant scarlet-red flames, and he punched forward with his fire-clad fist.

A flaming fist the size of a giant shot out.

With smooth and delicate hands, Kiernan pushed his hands against the massive flaming fist and smiled casually.

He didn't look like he was in any trouble.

"Mastered Iron Style, Flaming Rox!"

The flaming fist smashed into the ground and dispersed harmlessly into a cloud of smoke.

"A-Ah?!"

Rizzo took a step backwards in shock.

"What about this!"

Kiernan reeled back his right arm and, with a big grin, surrounded his right fist with the black darkness.

"Mastered Iron Style, Black Fist!"

He punched forward, and a black fist of darkness shot out towards Rizzo. It brought an oppressive aura of death.

This black fist was evil and destructive.

"Flaming Tower of the Sun God!"

Rizzo waved his hand, and a tower of flames erupted from the ground, colliding with the black fist.

Darkness versus fire!

In that moment, Kiernan reached out his black smoking hand towards Rizzo, and a dark vortex appeared in his palm.

"Mastered Iron Style, Black Hole!"

The gravity started pulling Rizzo, and he flew through the flaming tower and into Kiernan's dark vortex.

He grabbed Rizzo by his throat, and his eyes showed a look of terror.

With a smile, Kiernan hooked the middle finger of his left hand and jabbed it at Rizzo, hitting him in the forehead, nose, and chin.

"Mastered Iron Style, Triple Point Strike!"

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

Rizzo's head snapped back with each hit, and after the third strike, his eyes rolled back into his skull, and his health points dropped all the way to zero.

"The winner is Kiernan Hunter!"

Amidst loud cheers, Kiernan just waved to the ground while making his way back to his room and happened to catch a glimpse of his cheering students and wife-to-be.

It just made him chuckle, and after returning to his room, he sat down and took a deep breath to calm himself down.

'This darkness power is not only making me lose control, it is also tempting me like a beautiful succubus. It wants me to keep using these powers more… way more.

'It is also power that I can kill easily with, so it is quite bothersome.'

After the first round ended with his victory, he watched the rest of the first-round matches and came to a conclusion about whom Ama thought was going to win.

There was a man fighting, who had a quite unique name… Well, it's hard to call it a name, but it's more like a title of a kind, which he seemed to use as his name.

He was the only person that Kiernan thought was strong enough to give him trouble.

Bad Motherfucker… was the guy's name apparently.

A dark-skinned man from the Lands of the Unturned Sun, and he apparently liked to travel all around the world to compete in these kinds of tournaments.

He wasn't Montrael citizen, but he came here every year to participate in the King of the Martial tournament and happened to win last year.

Kiernan acknowledged his strength, but… He still didn't think there was any Martial King that could defeat him.

He truly believed that he was the strongest Martial King in the whole world. It didn't matter that he wasn't even High Stage yet.

This was the confidence of Kiernan Hunter, and it was the mindset that the strongest should have.

The rest of the Round of 16 matches went on, and after those ended, it didn't take long for the Quarterfinals to start.

There had been a lot of matches today, so to keep up the schedule, there wasn't a long gap between the matches.

Quarterfinals were the last matches held today, and the last matches would be held tomorrow to conclude the event.

In that moment, the first fighters and the arena appeared on the television screen.

[Quarterfinals - Kiernan Hunter vs. Maraboa Conda]

[Arena: Old Stone Age Town]

The door swooshed open, and Kiernan stepped through while being greeted by the thunderous audience.

The arena looked quite interesting. It was a small town with unkempt buildings and a harsh-looking road.

Just like the name suggested, it was supposed to look like a town durin the Old Stone Age, and it was clearly much harder living conditions back then.

Thus, the historians believed that was the reason why so many legendary beings existed during the Old Stone Age because it had much harder living conditions and was harder to survive.

The present time was like a paradise compared to that, and most of the younger folk didn't have to fight to survive like in the past.

They had tournaments with all kinds of safety rules and regulations in place to protect the participants.

There were indeed tournaments in the Old Stone Age, but they usually ended with just one person leaving alive.

At that moment, on the other side of the town, Kiernan's opponent, Maraboa, appeared with a sneaky smile.

She had long green hair like seaweed and had narrow eyes of a reptile creature. She wasn't pretty at all, but not that she cared.

[FIGHT!]

A word flashed on the massive screen.

In that moment, Maraboa grew in size, and her legs turned into a snake tail, and the rest of her body turned into a hybrid between a woman and an anaconda.

She became taller than most buildings around her.

The scales of her anaconda body displayed a rainbow of colors and looked indestructible.

"I really don't like snakes."

Kiernan said, and as his hand started smoking black, he touched the ground below his feet, and the black smoke started spreading throughout the old town.

"Mastered Iron Style, Black World!"

When the black smoke went under the buildings, they started sinking into the smoke as if it were quicksand.

The entirety of the town was soon swallowed by the black smoke, and at the same time, the black smoke thickened the aura.

It became very difficult to breathe for Maraboa.

"Cough! Cough!"

She coughed heavily and then started slithering towards Kiernan to end this fight as soon as possible.

The buildings of the old town were now completely sunk into the black smoke. The arena looked normal now with all the buildings gone.

The audience looked amazed.

In that moment, Kiernan raised his finger to the sky, and then, the buildings shot out from the black smoke and smashed into Maraboa.

The debris of the building drowned her, and she even started sinking into the black smoke without being able to do anything.

"Nooo!"

With last hopeless screams, she vanished into the black smoke, and on the big screen, it showed her health points dropping all the way to zero.

"Gasp!"

The audience gasped, wondering whether Kiernan accidentally killed her, but then he waved his hand, and she reappeared from inside the black smoke.

However, she was unconscious.

"The winner is Kiernan Hunter!"

Dominance!