"Pulverise... pulverise..... pulverise.... pulverise," the crowd kept chanting as the Pulveriser walked out of the ring to his team.
Sean sat on a stool as he wrapped his hands with a white cloth. Precious walked to him with a smile.
"Oh. My. God. You did good out there. Didn't know you could fight as good as that," Precious remarked as she shakes with excitement.
"Been fighting all my life, I have to be good at it," Sean replied as he smiled back.
"So, how you gonna defeat the Pulveriser," Precious asked as she handed a bottle of water to him.
"Gulp.... I don't actually wanna defeat Pulveriser, he's far more experienced and skilled than me so I'll just buy time till I have an opportunity, if none, I'll just yield defeat. Who gave him "Pulveriser" as a name?" Sean said as he drank the bottle of water.
"Well, he once punched a guy so fast and so hard, the dude went in coma for about 2 weeks. At 21, he fought an expert Martial artist and lost, he came back few days later for a rematch and brutally defeated him. He has an obcession with fighting and winning. here, there's almost no law apart from not being able to kill each other. Reason is because, we need more fighters and so can't punish the few ones cause if 'light' crimes," Precious explained and Sean nodded in understanding.
10 mins later
"Candidates, take your positions," the announcer shouted and the crowd yeld in ecstasy.
Sean and Pulveriser climbed the ring from opposite ends till they were on top the elevated battle ring.
"You know the rules. The winner of this spar shall immediately have a rank in their chosen divisions while the loser would be accepted in their chosen division but would not necessarily have any rank. Now, fight!" The announcer shouted and the crowd yelled as a force field was immediately activated, shielding the two fighters from the crowd and leaving no way to escape.
"The name's Jao Ming, but you can call me Jao. You seem like a worthy opponent, let's see how long you last," Pulveriser,now known as Jao Ming said with a calm expression even thou he's eyes shown brightly like a Battle Maniac in War Madness mode.
"The name's Sean Roberts. This should be fun," Sean smirked as he said this before picking on the broad sword on the floor and dashed to Jao Ming at peak human speed with the Sword raised up to slash down at any moment.
Boom!
Jao Ming picked his custom made two edged sword and swung it at Sean who used his broad sword to block the strike. The recoil pushed him back a little while Jao Ming didn't even spare him a glance and followed the attack with a shoulder jab, the impact sending Sean some distance away before he regained his balance.
'He's strong, he's strength is definitely not normal. Well, neither is mine,'
Sean thought as he ran to Jao Ming at a moderate pace.
Bang!
Sean sent his sword to Jao's neck but he blocked it with the broad sword. Sean kept striking but Jao choose to stay in the defensive even thou his opponent was proving too fast to deal with.
Just as Sean was about to strike him again, Jao struck him instead but Sean was fast to block the strike with his sword, causingit to fly away from the impact which Sean could only endure because of his enhanced physiology.
Jao Ming immediately turned offensive with nothing to block his attacks as he had already smelt victory.
Slash!
Jao's sword was sent hurling towards Sean at an astonishing speed but Sean reacted faster and rolled away. Jao kept slashing his sword downwards towards Sean but he rolled so fast that Jao always missed him by a few centimeters.
"Fucking Die," Jao lost his composure as he got more and more infuriated by his opponents nimble and quick body. He forcefully plunged his sword straight down before swinging up with so much strength, the blade slashed the rolling and nimble Sean's arm.
"Ahhhhhhhh," Sean screamed as he's rolling became slower but he was already close to his sword.
Turns out, he was actually buying time and rolling seemingly randomly to get close enough to his sword and counter-attack and this was the perfect time as Jao Ming would think he's opponent had no way of fighting back with the bloodly gash on his arm and would put all his strength in the final blow, reducing his defences to the barest minimum and giving Sean the opportunity to deliver his own killer blow.
Bam!
Jao Ming smashed his sword on empty soil but couldn't believe his eyes, before he could stand up straight and defend himself against any attack, Sean had already stood up with his Sword in his grasp and sent it straight towards Jao with intentions of drawing blood and not killing him.
Sean had reasoned that killing him would be a major loss to the fighters and so he only wanted to defeat him.
Bang!
A bell was rang and unexpectedly, Jao Ming's skin became as hard as a rock when Sean's sword was only 3 centimeters from his skin.
Crash
Sean's sword almost broke from the impact while only a dent was found in Jao Ming's stone body. Sean was beyond mystified and didn't have time to rethink a strategy as Jao swung his large stone hard arms at him with unyielding precision.
Crack!
The sound of ribs breaking was heard as the impact of the force sent Sean crashing into the forcefield which absorbed the impact.
"It's now time for Phantom abilities to be used," the announcer announced and faced a delima.
'What's a Phantom?'
"Do you yield?" Jao Ming said with a smiling face as he looked at his battered and shattered opponent.
Sean smiled as he had a guess about what a Phantom was through the transformation Jao Ming had just undergoed.
'A Phantom should be someone with special abilities,'
Sean immediately released the hold he had kept on his powers which prevented them from activating without his conscious activation.
His powers where symbolized as a river in his mind. To prevent it from flowing through his body when not needed, he simply imagined a dam which limited then to certain areas thus sealing it.
To heal from this otherwise fatal wound, He had to release the dam and allow it to glow freely.
"Get up, let's end this," Jao who thought his opponent was like the others, weak and powerless taunted with his stone hard body still activated.
Sean bowed his head down as he endured the pain of having his broken ribs pieced together back and reshaped into what they used to be.
When it healed completely (roughly took a minute), he raised his head up with a smirk.
"Let's have it your way, Phantom fight" Sean said calmly and stood up with renewed vigor. Now, he was slightly above human in terms of strength, speed, endurance, stamina and healing capabilities.
The whole crowd marvelled at how this new comer was also a Phantom. Some friends even asked Precious who refused to believe it as her mouth stood agaped.
"I don't believe it"
With that, Sean dashed to Jao Ming with his fists alone while Jao Ming dashed also with his heavy stature and his double edged sword held high.
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To Be Continued
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First time using chinese characters. Sorry for the late posting lately