The crowd froze, even though it was a game, our bodies felt real, and if two of the most skilled fighters had to end up in a fight of that level of damage and violence, it only reminded everyone how real the pain was… there were no filters if you were hurt, just a pain so real that it could block you or knock you out, as it almost happened to the Japanese.
"The hardest lesson for everyone is that playing, no matter how good you are, is not the same as putting your life on the edge of the sword… in that period between life and death, is where the true warrior lives…" Ikky said it solemnly, and deep down, it was something that everyone thought.
Although the quality of the contenders and the fights had grown exponentially as the tournament progressed, everyone was clear that the star fight of the second round was going to be Karslan and Red Dragon.
