The tournament had over 1,000 contestants. It was only natural it did since the prize money was 10,000,000 dollars. 10,000,000 dollars was enough to draw a lot of attention. It was enough to draw even the rif rafs who did not know the first thing about martial arts and were hoping to get lucky.
I stepped into the arena with all other contestants and heard the cheering of all people in the crowd. The crowd was huge and made a lot of noise. They cheered and jeered and made loud noises. Trumpets and horns were blown and loud noises filled the stadium as if there was a normal football match going on.
The contestants raised their hands and blew kisses, some waved and some didn't even acknowledge the crowd.
Trumpets were blown so hard that I thought that it was the end of days.
Drums were hit harder than slaves used to be in the dark ages of ignorance.
The atmosphere was lively and enough to get my heart pumping. It was similar to the football finals.
A minute had passed when finally someone appeared. It was the same woman that I had met outside and was on a huge circular hoverboard with railings. She had a microphone to her mouth and screamed into.
"ARE YOU REAADDYYYYY?" The crowd matched her energy and shouted their answer.
"YEEEEEESSS!"
She continued hyping up the crowd which kind of pissed me of. She spent like thirty minutes doing this that I would never get back. This reminded me of the champions league finals.
"And now for our reigning champion..." she pointed to the sky and everyone looked up. I could see a figure being affected by gravity and coming down.
"IS THAT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO! IT'S VERIZON!"
A sound that was similar to sonic boom could be heard as a shockwave could be seen.
BOOOOMM!
The dust was blown apart and the ground tremored. As the dust settled we all saw who it was. It was a man wearing a navy blue suit. He had a handsome face that I wanted to cave in for no certain reason.
He had dark sleek hair that was shining. I knew he had applied gel to it as there was nothing else that could cause hair to shine like his.
He smiled and revealed his bright white and the roar of the crowd increased. I could see several woman fainting. Some woman tried throwing their pants at him but they were quickly stopped by the security guards.
"Handsome bastard!"
"Lucky guy!"
"I want to wipe that smile of his face."
The low grade contestants surrounding me all voiced their discontent as they showed their jealousy.
Verizon waved his hand and jumped onto the floating platform with the commentator. She handed him the microphone and he spoke into his.
"It is an honour to be back here again. Sadly due to the rules I can not participate again if I have won." That was good. Had he been allowed to join it would have been completely unfair. It would have been like Mike Tyson put in a ring against a child.
"However today, I am going to be joining the lovely Serena as her co commentator. I'm glad to be here with you all."
I did not bother listening to prince charmings speech. I took a look at the competition. Since I could not detect Hyoksi yet, all that I could go of was their physical appearance. I ignored all the meat heads as I knew most of them were not going to be a challenge for me unless they were borrowers or enhancers.
It was a good thing to assume that most of these people were enhancers as I saw a lot of people wearing marital art school uniforms.
"Richie?" I shouted out. Some guy turned and I held my hand and he shook it. He immediately let go as it was wet. I shook my hand and the 'sweat' flew all across the arena and hit several people.
"Sorry about that, my hands are a bit sweaty." I said.
"No problem," The guy said as he smiled. He wore all white clothes with an eagle embroided into the chest. "Do I know you though?" He asked.
"I'm sorry, I mistook you for someone I knew, you seemed familiar when I looked at you from the back." I said as I awkwardly moved away backwards. He smiled at me and turned back.
I shook my hands and once again my 'sweat' flew across the arena.
"Hey stop that." a muscular bald headed guy snarled at me.
"Sorry about that, I'm just really nervous. I'm just sweating a lot."
The man came closer to me and looked to the sides. "If you want something to calm your nerves just tell me, for the low price of 7,000 dollars I can get you a nerves of steel potion." he said.
"Nah... I'm good." If I wanted with a single phone call I could have as many potions as I wanted delivered to me.
"Suit yourself man but later on remember, the price is going to skyrocket." He smiled and turned back. I was expecting several things to happen and that was not it. He just backed away. Wasn't he supposed to throw a tantrum or something like a third rate villain? Whatever the case it didn't bother me. He seemed like a dealer who came here with the sole purpose of selling his goods.
I moved back into the sea of contestants and removed my shirt. My body was covered in 'sweat'. I shook my body like a lion shook its mane and all the 'sweat' on my body flew onto people.
"What the fuck?"
"Who did this?"
"That is nasty!"
"I will kill whoever did this."
"Sorry about that guys." I shouted.
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