Apparently, because Torfo had been warned by the minister, there were no more casualties among the participants. Darrion, Mugen, and Oki were the only ones in the medical tent who might be out for the rest of the fight. With Darrion passing out from exhaustion, while Mugen and Oki passing out from being knocked out.
“Damn, Aeronvein’s full of powerhouses,” Bara said, entering the participant’s box while holding his hips. He just won his battle against Ugi.
Ruhan, who was sitting on Jai’s left, immediately stood up and turned to Bara, “I-I’m sorry! Did I hit you too hard?”
The brunette had a big bandage plastered on his left cheek from a partially healed, second degree burn.
“No, I can do it myself...” Bara waved his hand and slowly sat by himself behind the brunette. “Why are you apologizing?”
“Uhmm.. Uhh...” Ruhan seemed out of words.
Jai smiled. Ruhan's behavior is kind of cute, Jai note
As Jai had predicted, he was called to fight against Bara in the next battle.He had seen how Bara fights. The big guy relied heavily on his fist, being the close fighter that he is. If Jai had to compare him to make it easier, he was like a boxer with fire element mixed with a green belt karate martial artist.His style was a bit similar to karate martial artists, but there were also moves that Jai noticed were different from karate. He used fists more often and he defended like how a boxer defend themselves from their opponent's attack.However, like the others in the participant box, Bara was not in the peak condition at this point. He slipped a few times in his momentum and Jai was able to land in a few hits on him because of it.But that wasn't the reason why Jai didn't use his lightning at all in this battle. He was saving it for his fight with Torfo or Raka, because he knew he would need as much energy as he can. What was left a
Jai walked to his bags while holding his wet clothes, putting them on the hamper by the partition to dry them. He had to change because his clothes were wet from his fight with Mac. It was like when he fought Vienn, but the fight with Mac was not at all hard for him. Just very tiring.Well... It was staged, after all, so he could say that everything was prepared. Mac had hinted at his attacks with eye gestures, so Jai knew where the water elemer’s next attacks would be. For the finishing move, Jai punched Mac in the face and slipped his thunder in to knock the orange boy out. He made sure to visibly burst his lightning after the guy went flying and not before.He could kill the guy if he did it when he punches him. Besides, he did that only to make sure the people believe the fight was real.The audience didn’t seem to notice and they roared like crazy just like how a normal battle is.“Mmhmm~” a voice hummed. “I ca
Jai walked to the arena with the guard who fetched him. His fists clenched and unclenched multiple times because he was feeling nervous. He had the interest in asking the guard about who he will be fighting against so that he could better put his energy conservation plan right away.He opened his lips but ended up closing it again. Then he stopped walking, prompting the guard in front of him to stop walking too, and turned to him."Jai? Is everything alright?" the guard asked."Um, yeah, just, give me a minute," Jai said, then he looked down to think.'What am I doing? It's not like me to worry about something like this. Just three more battles and it's all done. If I can win all three, I can be the first winner. Just endure three more fights, me,' Jai sighed.Then he swallowed the unexisting lump in his throat and nodded, "Let's go."He breathed in and out slowly as they wal
From the initial assessment, Jai noticed a few things that Raka assumed from him.One, he thought that Jai was only a close range fighter who had changed punches and kicks as his arsenal.Jai noticed this when he shot his lightning.Jai’s skill spread from his hand and disappeared to the ground around Raka before Raka jumped back. His distance from Jai before the shot was not close and could be considered medium range. That was why he looked surprised when Jai shot him with lightning from such a distance.Two, he had never been electrified or being struck by lightning several times. It was seen from how his face was contorting ever so lightly when Jai hurled charged punches at him.Another punch was blocked by Raka’s right hand, and he immediately continued by sending his palm to the center of Jai’s chest and once again, blowing the lightning elemer away.Jai didn’t fly high this time, jus
“I surrender.”Raka stopped his attaks, but the crowds of people were shouting louder than before. They seemed to be conveying their disappointment that Jai chose to surrender instead of pushing on.But the committee immediately took over the events and declared Raka as the winner.Jai swallowed the non-existant lump in his throat once again as he tried to hold his agitation. His pride was hurt that he surrendered. But he remembered the reason he signed up for this competition. That's why he tried to live with it.'Screw my pride. I'm not here for myself. I'm here for Miria,' Jai thought.He tried to stand, but his hands and feet were trembling. He didn't feel the hot or cold pricks on his arms and feet anymore. But they were definitely warm and a bit numb. His head was still hurting as well, although the pain wasn't as much as before.He then heard footsteps coming over t
"Wait! Are you sure you want to go on, Jai?" one of the medics asked in concern."Wrong question, madam. I absolutely want to go on," then he grunted as he tried to get up, "You should've asked me if I can."He propped his elbow and tried to push himself up. But his elbows were still quite numb, so eventually, he turned to Darrion and said, "Darrion, help me up."His friend sweat dropped, but he did as he was asked, and Jai thanked him."You can barely stand. Are you sure you can continue with the fight?" Nurse Lin asked, her brows were inclined together."I admit I don't know. But I have to can. I mean, be able to," Jai said with a sigh. "My friend is waiting for me back at the village. So I have to win this."Darrion looked at him weirdly and smiled, "We all want to win this, silly."Ruhan chuckled from his left, "Yes, we do. But, resting more is also go
“Jai, wake up,” Darrion shook his shoulder.“Mmm... Just a minute,” Jai mumbled softly.“No, not just a minute, not anymore minute, wake up.”The blonde softly slapped his cheeks multiple times. Luckily, Jai is not a heavy sleeper and only needed a few effort in waking him up. That also happened in his house when the thunder boy stayed for the night. Hence Darrion wouldn’t agree to Jai getting a bit of sleep before his battle.Jai fluttered his eyes open and sleepily looked around, “Where am I...?”He felt sore all over his body and he just want to rest.“In front of the greatest man alive,” Darrion answered without skipping a beat.Jai frowned, “Who?”“Me,” the blonde grinned while Jai gave him a raise of his eyebrow.“Come on! The battle’s almost over,” Darrion helped Jai to sit up. His friend needed some energy before the battle, and he wanted to
Torfo immediately took the first strike.He lurched a fire fist towards Jai from the side.Jai immediately dodged to the other side and raised his elbow to hit his face. But he saw the rising elbow and tilted his head to dodge it, but he was a few seconds late so it hit him in the jaw.Torfo grunted as the elbow reached his face. It made him stumble a few steps back and raised his own hands to touch the spot where it hit.He felt something he had never felt before. It was stinging, but there was something like small bites that was spreading lightly to his lips. It disappeared as quick as it appeared, but the aftermath of it was not as smooth as it first appeared.His side jaw was a bit numb now, and when he tried moving it, the small bites appeared for a few seconds before disappearing all completely.The white haired soldier looked at his opponent with slight disbelief.Jai s