The announcer then begins to shout, "And that is the end of the first round! We move onto our second round beginning our first match, coming in from my right side, the man coming from the areas unknown, he is a soon-to-be legend, Maiku!" I then walked out and as soon as I take a step out, the crowd begins to chant my name. At first, they were quiet when I fought Kayden but now, they seem to like me. The announcer then continues, "And on my left side, a woman whose heart is pure of stone, it's Saphela. Saphela enters with a sassy walk as she looks at her nails. We both then meet in the middle. We both looked at each other. Saphela looked at me with a disgust look. Eren leans over to Luke and says, "She might not be an easy opponent for Maikeru." Luke responds back, "Why do you think that? Is it because of the way she is acting?" Eren then continues, "I can sense both of their power. Maikeru still hasn't recovered fully from his fight, but Saphela did." Luke then responds back, "How did she manage to recover fully after her fight and Maikeru didn't?" Eren then says, "Maikeru was taking more hits in his fight and needed to use more mana than expected. Saphela didn't waste much mana and she managed to make her opponent submit by almost killing him. As I continue to watch the other fighters like Lyon, Sana, Shamueru, Musu, Kayden, and Satirez; these fighters are not any ordinary fighters you would see every day. They spend years training, trying to become the strongest. The only similarity I see with Maikeru and all of them is that they all were training ever since they were given their powers." Luke then says, "Maikeru will find a way to beat Saphela! He would never let someone like her dominate him in battle!" The portal then opens. The announcer then says, "Once you enter the portal, the battle shall begin!" We both walked through the portal.
As we both walked through the portal, we then took distance from each other. The announcer then shouts, "Let the battle begin, Fight!" Saphela's hair then turned gray. The ground begins to shake. I look around then I felt something rising from underneath. I dodged to the side and see a stone pillar rising from underneath. I summon my yin katana and destroy the pillar. Saphela then says, "You must be a dark mana user. I despise you users the most. I'll make sure to do the same as I did with the last guy and make you one of my statues." I was confused when I heard her say statues. I then shouted, "Darkness Spheres!" Dozens of spheres made out of dark mana were coming straight towards Saphela. Saphela then says, "Obstructive Wall!" A wall risen from underneath and blocked my attack. I then rushed towards Saphela. I felt the ground shaking and stone pillars were being summoned. They were rising and were locked onto me. They managed to land 8 cuts on my left leg and 4 on my right. I then begin to fly in the air in order to escape the attack. I look below me seeing the mess that was left behind. Saphela then begins to fly up. Saphela then says, "Looks like you didn't make it out in one piece, not impressive especially from a dark mana user." I was beginning to lose my temper. I then heard a voice, and it was Zedro's. Zedro calls out to me and says, "You're getting mad over a girl Maikeru? Don't cry like a baby infront of the entire kingdom now." I respond back saying, "I know I can beat her. I just need to clear my head like you always tell me to do." Zedros responds back saying, "Huh, looks like you do learn from me after all. Now do me a favor and kick her ass." I respond back saying, "With pleasure." Saphela's hair then begins to turn into snakes. Saphela then says, "My power is called Medusa's Touch. You will be nothing more but a statue just like the many men who have fought and failed against me." I then got my yin katana ready and shouted, "Yin's Amputation!" I dashed towards Saphela. Saphela then shouts, "Medusa's Armor!" Saphela's body then turns into hard rock stone. Saphela then raises both of her arms to block my attack. We then begin to clash as we both attempt to hit one another.
I weaved Saphela's right hook and did a reverse sidekick to shove her away. Saphela gets launched away and shouts, "Stone Pillars!" Saphela shoots out stone pillars at me and I then begin to deflect them. I afterimage dashed towards Saphela, kicked her into the air, dashed up, and smacked her back onto the ground. Saphela's stone armor then begins to break. Saphela spits out blood. I then rush down in charging from above and shouting, "Yin's Amputation!" As I reached Saphela, she says in a low tone, "Cunning Stone." A stone pillar grows out from her back and pierces me through my right shoulder. I grab the yin katana with my left hand and broke the pillar. I jumped back and saw the stone melt, go inside my wound, and held my right shoulder stiff. I couldn't move my right shoulder. Saphela then begins to smile and rushes over to me and lands a devious blow to my gut. I begin to spit out blood. The stone inside my shoulder grew and took over my entire right arm. Saphela then says, "That attack was called Cunny Stone. It will corrupt any part of the human it touches. You should submit before I separate you from your right arm." Zedro's then appears and says, "Maikeru, Dark Disintegration can help cure your right arm." I reply back to Zedro's, "Dark Disintegration uses a lot of my mana." Zedros then says, "You will still have a good amount of mana for the fight but if you use it again then you will be too tired to use another move that contains mana." I nodded my head. Saphela then grabs my right arm and says, "You should have submitted." I then say, "Dark Disintegration." The stone disintegrates and Saphela quickly let's go of my arm. Saphela looks at her hand and sees that I destroyed her glove. Saphela then shouts, "You little bastard!" Saphela then goes for a roundhouse. I catch her leg, pulled her closer, and grabbed her by the throat. I then begin to destroy her armor. I then said, "I can now make it even more painful to beat you into a bloody mess." I then said, "Blackout." The area turns dark and Saphela couldn't move. Saphela then says in her head, "What is this? I can't see, feel, or hear anything." Once the darkness disappeared, a tremendous amount of pain occurred to Saphela.
Saphela then drops onto her knees and begins to bleed out in pain. Saphela then mutters, "W-w-what did you do?" Back when Saphela couldn't move, I landed a barrage of punches and kicks as if she was a punching bag. I finished the attack with a jab to the throat. Looking at Saphela on her knees in pain, I then said, "Do you submit?" Saphela puts her left hand on the ground and says, "Avenging Snake." A snake comes out of the ground and grabs a bite onto my leg. I then grabbed the snake and pulled it out. The fangs from snake were inside me and injected its venom inside. Saphela then says, "Oh Maiku, you should never drop your guard. The venom won't kill but make it harder for you to move." I then began to slowly fall onto my knees and couldn't move. Saphela then picks me up by pulling my hair and says, "This is the part where you become my statue." Saphela's eyes then began to glow and Saphela says, "Medusa's Curse!" As I was forced to look into Saphela's eyes, my entire body then began to turn into stone. Everything went dark, quiet, and soft. Zedro's then says, "Maikeru, I will give you some dark mana to use Dark Disintegration. Promise me that this will be the last time that this bitch will turn you into stone. Not because I care but because if you manage to die because of this, I too will die as well. Saphela then gets up from the ground and looks at me, seeing me as one of her statues. Saphela then smiles.
A crack then appears. Saphela's smile begins to fade away. More and more cracks begin to appear. Saphela then shouts, "No, no, no! This is impossible! No one has ever broken Medusa's Curse!" I then break out of the statue. I look down at my hands seeing that dark disintegration begins to fade away. Saphela then begins to walk backwards. Saphela then says, "How do you still…have mana?" I then looked at Saphela. I rushed towards with a jump sidekick knocking her onto the ground. I then replied back, "I don't have any mana left, I just used what was left over to break the curse." I walked over to Saphela, summoned my yin katana, and aimed it at Saphela and said, "You don't have any more mana left, I can tell because of how you are acting. If you don't submit now than it looks like you're the one who is going to be losing their right arm." I then slowly stabbed my yin katana inside of Saphela's right shoulder and said, "Do you submit?" Saphela then shouts in pain, "I submit! I submit!" I took out the yin katana and walked away. The portal opens and medics come out to help Saphela and I go through the portal. The announcer then shouts, "Maiku is the winner!" Luke jumps out of his seat shouting, "He did it! He did it!" Eren also jumped out of his seat shouting, "He's in the semifinals! Maikeru- I mean Maiku defeated Saphela!" Lyon and Sana were also clapping and cheering. The crowd went wild when I appeared through the portal, and I like this energy more than before.
After the fight, I headed to the spectator's room. When I reached the door, I saw Shamueru there waiting for me. So, I said, "What do you want?" Shamueru replied, "Why are you still wearing that glove? You know that without the glove, you would be able to win that match with minimum effort, right?" I replied, "Is that all you have to say? You know your match is coming soon. Like jeez, if you are going to struggle in the first match, I doubt that you are not even strong enough to win the second." Shamueru then grinned and then replied, "Let me tell you this once and I won't repeat it again. Just like you, I'm holding back too. I only went in my incomplete form for a second because he was getting annoying and I have an inner urge to kill him, but since you want to see me go all out then let's see how long this person will last." Shamueru then left the room.
After Shamueru left, I walked through the door and then Lyon and Sana came up to me. Lyon said, "Congratulations Maiku! You got me nervous when she turned your whole body into stone and then suddenly or somehow you broke out of it! It was unbelievable! I can't wait to fight you one day!" Sana then says, "Hey Lyon calm down before you start mumbling, also congratulations Maiku." I replied, "Thanks guys but right now I have to watch this fight, it is very important." I walked past them and then looked at the arena. In my head I say, "What does he mean, how long can she survive? Whatever he does in that fight I wouldn't mind even if it means killing her."