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Chapter 38 - Learning Martial Arts (1)

Emmy could see two men standing opposite each other, a young man with well tone skin and a sharp tiny straight eyes, he had a long black wavy hair with his face almost looking like a porcelain doll. He had a loose short sleeve on and a long baggy trouser on, he had no weapon with him and his hand was folded looking at his opponent. That's Raze.

'That's – that's definitely Raze, I can't believe I get to see him fight.'

He didn't know who the other person is, a large dark skinned man who was all muscle and well-built, the man looks to be in his late thirty's, he had nothing on, only a short pant that cover his private part and his well-chiseled chest could be seen dancing to the sound of his heartbeat.

The man had a large scar across his face and he also had no weapon on him.

"Scary." That's how Emmy could define the man. As the referee discuss a few things with the both of them, Emmy saw a short boy at the front turned his head backward and waving his hand. Tracing the boy's hand, he saw John and Terry entering the building, and they started creating their way towards the short boy at the front who happens to be Ben. Emmy quickly put down his head as he saw them.

By the time he raised back his head, the match has already started and as his eyes laid on the arena, he received a message from his system.

'Huh? What would that be.'

Opening the window, he read the message.

[A battle have been detected]

[Match between Two Elite fighters, Raze Foxhole and Holly Dia]

[Would you like for the system to scan the match thoroughly and store the footage in your data storage, so you can analyze it later]

[Yes] [No]

'Huh? Really, like I can have this match stored in the system.'

Without wasting any time, Emmy selected yes and he could see a red dot blinking at the top edge of the system, like it's always done in camera.

'Wow, now this is cool.'

Concentrating on the match, he faced the arena. The two Elite fighters have already summoned their weapon. The scary man whose name is Holly wielded a black great sword while Raze had a pair of large golden gauntlet on, wielding no offensive weapon.

The scary man was the first to charge in, which was expected from a person with an offensive weapon. Swinging his sword sideward, Raze dodge it calmly by moving left, just as he moved, another sword appear before him ready to slash him. Like Raze was expecting the appearance of the sword that appeared before him, he quickly jumped making it slash nothing but air.

Not giving him any time to gain his posture, the scary man delivered another strike and another. With each strike he delivered, it was as if he swung countless sword at a time with each strikes. Raze was left with no choice but to deflect each strike with his gauntlet, hopefully it will survive the assault. He has no where to run, the attack was coming from all sides and Holly hasn't even delivered up to five strikes, but it looks as if he he's delivering twenty at a time, leaving Raze with breathing room.

As Emmy watches the match as it continues, he came to a conclusion of what the scary man's ability might be. His ability deals with duplicating anything he touches, he can create countless copies of whatever he touches. But the scary man is not using his ability in that manner, instead he was duplicating each of his strikes. If he delivered one strike, ten will appear making it impossible for Raze to get close to him. .

But Raze hasn't even used his ability yet and it doesn't look as if he will use it anytime soon. He was deflecting each strike with next to no stress, there wasn't even a scratch on his gauntlet despite all the strikes he had deflected and as Emmy watches, he got to see the way Raze defended himself against countless strikes. It was as if he's fighting countless opponent.

He also noticed that after the scary man delivered a strike, he moves to a less protected place to deliver a fatal blow to Raze who will immediately deflect it like he saw it coming.

The assault continue for about seven minutes more and that's it. That's when Holly's assault ended with a single mistake, or rather a planned outcome by his opponent.

He moved to Raze's back after unleashing countless strike for him to deal with at the front, he moves to deliver a stealth attack behind him, just as the sword was a mere meter away from Raze, he fell backward with his back hitting the arena floor.

Holly was a couple of seconds late to react as a strike that was supposed to be deflected by Raze from the front hit Holly on his shoulder, he realized that he was set up. He was being faced against his own weapon.

But it was no problem for him, the duplicated strike of the great sword that hit him left no scratch on his body and with a large swing of his sword, the other duplicated were deflected and disappear in a mere second, but that second is what it take for a mistake to lead to a defeat.

After the trick, Raze wasted no time rolling off the middle of the clash and rise behind Holly. By the time the duplicated strikes were dealt with, Raze was already behind moving towards him with his fist readied. Turning around, Holly swung his great sword again expecting Raze to dodge it and create space between them. But the young boy was already closed to him and instead of dodging the strike, he simply throw an attack of his own towards the sword with his left hand and whacked the sword to the side making it escape its owner's hand.

Wasting no time, he delivered a punch towards Holly's stomach making a liter of blood escape his mouth, but the scary man didn't move an inch back. Instead, he smirk, spit out a mouthful of blood and rush toward Raze with no weapon. The young teenager lifted himself up and spun delivering a deadly kick towards Holly's head which made his head turned 360 degree and throw him off the stage.

Some of the people at the front scream as Holly landed at the front with his head twisted in a strange way while some roars in joy and cheers for Raze. Holly was quickly taken away with a stretcher. His opponent look at him disgustingly before he jumped down from the arena and move into a private room.

Just like that, the match had finish. Before, Emmy was wondering why Raze will participate in a match that grants him no reward, a match that can lead to his death but grants him no reward. But after listening to the different conversation in the Disco, he realized that it's a personal grudge. He learned that both Holly and Raze used to be in the same martial art club in the past and Holly was a senior to Raze. Emmy didn't know the details of their grudge because that's all he heard from the conversation he listened to.

He threw John a few more glances before finding his way out of the Disco.