Ippo sat waiting in the locker room and couldnt keep his anticipation down the reason for this is that he unexpectedly got a system message when he arrived.
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~SYSTEM MESSAGE~
congrats for making it to the finals
You can forfit the match and currently walk away but you will be penalized, and recieve only 75% of the aquired exp and stat points. you will also be banned from any tournament for 6mo.
If you decide to continue with the tournament you will find that your next match is heavily set against you, as you will be guaranteed to fight someone 3 classes higher than you. If you win grand ruches await, if you loose you will face the concequences mentioned for quitting early.
~reward~
: 2x loot multiplier
: double stat gain
: super rare lottery draw
(New system function opened by player winning)
~Penalty~
:75% of the aquired exp and stat points.
: you will be banned from any tournament for 6mo.
: random stat sealed by 90%
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Ippo could hardly believe what was happenening, he just knew that ass hat R.O.B was laughing at him over this. But ippo was not one to turn from a challenge, no he would face this last fight since quitting or loosing amounted to the same risk so ippo rathered he would fight to get what he wanted than quit and loose 25% of his effort and be banned on top of it.
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~Fighter make ready~ called out an official as he came in and inspected ippos gloves and give his instructions for the fight
'Lets do this, i will win' ippo hyped himself as he followed his corner man to the ring.
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~DING DING DING~
Ippo kept loose shaking his legs and moved his head side to side, as he listened to the offical go over the rules again. Ippo looked at his opponent and tried to keep his emotions in check since he was staring at a boxer almost as huge as takamura and takamura was a natural heavy weight who fought at middleweight. Wich should be what his opponent was weighing.
Now ippo knew this didnt mean he had the power of a middle weight, but even if he was a junior lightweight in power that was still some serious strength he would have to fight against and to try and keep away from.
Ippo snapped out of his mental musing as he heard the ref tell them to go to corners, in just a sec ippo would know if he could win or not, like it or not ippo knew he was no where near able to fight a middle weight head on but he might get a win if his opponent was a junior lightweight maybe even squeeze a win against a light weight. Ippo would just have to wait and see.
~Fight~
Ippo came out of his corner dashing at his oponent sawada, ippo kept his head tucked under his guard and tried to push deep into the chest where he might have a chance of dealing some fast damage.ippo hammered hard as fast as he could driving sawada back to the ropes, landing hit after hit, he believed he was dealing alot of damage trying to take away the legs so his opponent wouldnt get any strength from his lower body....BAM!...
...ne....
....o....
...he....
....r.....
Ippo didnt know what happened as he jerked awake,
...ix....
...seve...
Ippo realized he was down and pushed up looking around, he grabbed at the rope in front of him pulling himself up as he heard the refs count reach 9. Ippo stepped out and put his gloves up as the reff checked him and asked him to step forward looking for how damaged ippo was from the down.
The ref finally liked what he saw and called for both boxers to resume the fight, ippo looked across and saw his oponnent across from him looking smug and giving ippo a look saying 'come get more if you dare'.
Ippo came out more cautious, slowly stepping forward toward sawada, he took alot of damage from that down since it came out if nowhere and ippo wasnt prepared for it, so he took tripple damage since he didnot have a block and was pressing forward it returned the momentum of his charge and the damage of the hit simultaneously. Ippo couldnt see sawada even breathing heavily, so he musnt have taken as much damage as ippo did. He knew he did damage bit ippo didnt believe he did enough to hinder him and take his legs out as he saw sawada flexing his calf mucles and hoping slightly trying to intimidate ippo.
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Ding Ding~
Ippo fell down onto the stool in his corner panting and trying to suck as much oxygen as he could, he couldnt believe he underestimated sawada so bad. He should have known someone close to takamuras hieght would have power and could do serious damage, now he lost so much energy and took a tonne of damage in the fight. Ippo didnt know if he could finish the fight. Ippo finally noticed a blinking light in the corner of his eye, he looked down and saw a small bubble that looked like it qould belong in a manga that is used to have dialog. As he concentrated on it he suddenly heard a voice in his ear, with a shock he realized it was ROB the one who helped ippo have this chance again.
~IPPO BOYO,
ITS ME, ME
YOU KNOW YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD OPB.
HAHAHA JUKE F#$%&*N WITH YA BOYO
NOW I BET YOUR QONDERING HOW YOU CAN HEAR ME, WELL THIS IS A FUNCTION OF YOUR SYSTEM WHEN YOU ARE TOO BUSY AND YOU ONLY NEED TO LOOK AT IT TO ACTIVATE IT AND HEAR ANH MESSAGES LIKE A CELL PHONE. ALSO ITS SO YOU DONT SEEM LIKE A RETARD TOUCHING THIN AIR OF SOMETHING. HAHAAHAHA,
ANYWAY I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT YOUR DOING GREAT AND I HAVENT LAUGHED SO HARD IN YEARS JUAT WATCHING YOU PUT DOWN THOSE IDIOTS YOU FOUGHT HAHAHA. ANYWAY I HAVE UNLOCKED A NEW FUNCTION ITS CALLED A PERK MENU HAVE A LOOK AND ENJOY THE FREEBIE POINTS FOR MAKING IT SO FAR AND NOT PUSSING OUT, SINCE YOU EARN POINTS AS YOU WIN FIGHTS YOU HAVE SOME SAVED UP.
P.S. FIGHTING A HIGHER OPENENT WAS MY IDEA, FIGURED GETTIN YOUR ASS WHOOPED BY SOMEONE TOUGHER MIGHT BE FUNNY. IT TOTALLY WAS TOO.
P.S.S. I ALSO GAVE YOU A FREEBIE POINT CAUSE I TURNED UP YOUR TESTOSTERONE, FIGURED IT BE FUNNY SEEING WHAT YOU DO, AGAIN I WAS RIGHT STILL I DONT THINK ITS A GOOD FIT. ANY LATER.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~
Ippos eye twitched hard as he heard the mocking laughter, he just knew something was up with him earlier. He normally wouldnt be so arrogant toward people but something kept pushing him now he knew it was just ROB messing with him again for laughs.
Even though ippo was mad he still calmed himself and looked up seeing everything go grey he panicked till his system popped up and he saw a message stating that he would go into a time skip when he accessed his system from now on, the new area he had available in his system Was highlighted for him so ippo opened it and saw that he had plently of new options like training techniques, fighting styles, special moves and physical enhancements.
As ippo browsed he saw several options greyed out and only one highlighted which was special moves. It seemed ippo could only get these for now, upon opening the SP menu he saw several he liked but most were greyed out and ippo saw he didnt have enough perk points to get them. He had 4 points so far and all he could get was one that was descibed as (1/4‐smash blow.) When ippo selected it, he saw a small mini figure performing the move, seems it was a cross between sendos 3/4smash and ippos jumping uppercut. Only more refined and ippo could learn it right away, but could ippo pull it off with the shape he was in now?
Ippo decided he had nothing to loose and got the SP 1/4-smash blow, once he was done ippo closed the system With a thought and readied himself as the time skip was over and the bell for the final round would commence shortly.