Chapter 39
Smith continued to look at the robot opposite him.
With one look, he could tell that the robot have great power and even thought that the robot might be able to win against him.
Indeed, Smith did not want to be arrogant. He clearly knew that there is a great chance that he would not be able to win. However, there is a thing that drives him to fight. And that is the… Energy Units.
"Before the match starts, have you all placed your bets?"
The announcer asked loudly as he starts the match between Smith and the Robot Lord.
"YES!"
Meanwhile, there is no need for the announcer to worry about the bets of the crowd. The bets are already in the box.
"Hehe… in that case. From the red corner, we have Scarlet Metal. And from the blue corner, we have the Robot Lord."
"Let's get ready to rumble!"
Ding!
After the dinging sound, the fight officially started. However, both Smith and the Robot Lord did not do a thing and only stared at each other. But despite that, the spectator did not complain.
They knew that this is the crucial moment in which the two fighters study each other and try to guess the weaknesses of their opponents.
Well, that might not be the case, but that is what Smith is doing.
Smith is trying to study his opponent.
But what Smith did not know is that his opponent is simply waiting for his attack.
However, the more he delays, the more his opponent gets impatient. Or rather the more the master of his opponent gets impatient.
That might either be a good thing or at the same time a bad thing depending on how Smith copes with it.
Whoosh!
Meanwhile, in the next second, the impatient owner of the Robot Lord could no longer wait and sent a command to attack Smith making the Robot Lord dash towards him and land an attack.
Whoosh!
When the Robot Lord is only a few meters away from him, a plasma blade of about one foot appeared which the Robot Lord used against Smith.
However, Smith is not to be reckoned with.
The moment when the Robot Lord is about t land his attack, Smith leaped back to avoid the plasma blade followed by Smith's fist landing on the metallic chest of the Robot Lord.
"Fifty-Unit punch!"
Clang! Thud!
The Robot Lord is sent backward for three steps. However, that could have been more if Smith did not grab the left hand of the Robot Lord.
Don't get it wrong, it's not that Smith is trying to minimize the damage on the Robot Lord because this is all part of his combo attack.
Indeed, after Smith grabbed the metallic right hand of the Robot Lord, Smith pulled it followed by…
"Knee Strike!"
However, that is not a simple knee strike.
Smith applied a few hundred Energy Units to it.
Crack! Rip!
In the next second, the spectating crowd was silenced for a while as they did not expect the scene before their eyes.
The metallic right arm of the Robot Lord was ripped off from his body because of the knee strike.
The Robot Lord's arm was separated in the joint part on the shoulder.
Meanwhile, after being silenced for a few breaths, the spectating crowd began to cheer again.
This time, there is no jeering. All there was is the cheering and the applause of the crowd.
"Savage!"
"I thought he is having a system delay."
"Such strength. I wonder who manufactured the Scarlet Metal."
"That's not the question, brother. You should ask who its owner is."
"Indeed. I too wonder."
"Enough of that. Go for it. Rip the Robot Lord into pieces."
"Boo! Robot Lord, you deserve to die."
"The strong eat the weak."
Smith began to be intoxicated by the cheers of the spectating crowd. However, he did not let his mind be overwhelmed by it.
But despite that, he proceeded in his next action to completely destroy the Robot Lord.
He formed his hand into a claw and dug through the head of the Robot Lord.
Normally, Smith would not be able to do so. However, he succeeded since two of his fingers dug into the eyes. But that is not as simple as that.
Smith got a hold of the metallic skull of the Robot Lord and pulled it. Furthermore, as Smith does so, he did not forget to use the thrusters on his back for an additional pulling force.
Crash! Rip!
There is no need to ask what happened next.
The face of the Robot Lord was peeled off which exposed the data core. And as for Smith, he did not let this opportunity pass. He grabbed the data core and crushed it.
"Scarlet Metal!"
"Scarlet Metal!"
"Scarlet Metal!"
And with that, Smith looked at the spectating crowd that is cheering for him as the Robot Lord fall limply to the floor.
This time, he could not deny that he is indeed truly intoxicated by it.
"How did I come to this? This felt so good."
The more the crowd cheers, the more intoxicated he becomes. And it felt like he was sinking in the quicksand and the more he stays there, the more he sinks. However, if he tries to resist the faster he would sink.
"This is power."
Meanwhile, falling into the quicksand might not be a bad thing. Or at the very least, Smith did not think that it is a bad thing.
"Power!"
Indeed, the thing that brought Smith into this is his power. The power in his robotic body. However, that is not where Smith's true power truly lies.
The robotic body is but an avatar for him in the real world.
Smith's power lies in him being the malware. However, since he goes off-grid. He is unable to unleash that power.
Now that he thought of power…
"Why did I go off-grid?"
True. He had many enemies more powerful than him. However, he should not be scared of them. After all, he is the great malware named Smith.
He had started his path into being the great malware only to stop when he faced great enemies?
"How could that be?"