Martial Arts Worlds

"Hah. Hah. Hah."

Zeus slowly laughed, and with a smile on his face, summoned his aura image behind his back.

A thunder-haired man with a bushy beard and a bolt of lightning in hand emerged from the thundercloud.

The man turned towards Kiernan while he wasn't looking and threw the bolt of lightning straight at him.

His senses warned him—Kiernan turned to look at the thunder-haired man, but before he could react, the lightning bolt hit his right leg.

It wasn't an actual lightning bolt, but only a manifestation of Zeus' aura, but it still made the pain in his leg spike dramatically.

"Argh!"

Kiernan gritted his teeth to swallow all the pain, and he quickly shielded himself with the black fortress, but Zeus only made his aura image disappear.

"Your right leg~ Is injured~ Hahaha."

Zeus teasingly laughed.

He intentionally didn't keep his voice low so that everyone near him could hear, and many turned to look at Kiernan's right leg.

It was a great opportunity to get rid of the third-ranked representative while he was injured, and it was a thought shared by many.

"Oh~"

Sun looked over at Kiernan with a sly grin.

"…"

Kiernan wiped the sweat off his forehead, realized that he was in great trouble, and knew he had to come up with a plan quickly.

While he hoped that no one would attack him and wait for him to go naturally out, as he didn't have much chance to go far with the broken leg, he doubted they would let him have any more points.

Thus, he hoped that only a few attacked because the rest wouldn't want to waste his stamina, but he doubted that would happen too.

If they attacked, it would be everyone at the same time to get rid of him swiftly so he wouldn't get any more points.

'I need to start a war to have any chance.'

Kiernan thought and turned on his instinct—everyone around him was red in color—it meant that they all had intentions to attack him.

"Aura Image…"

The walls of the black fortress rose around him, and mighty-looking castle towers loomed above—it sent a dark shadow over the area.

Then, atop the fortress, thunderclouds gathered—dark and ominous—and those clouds stretched over every representative.

"Gulp!"

The representatives looked at the clouds and felt their oppressive aura.

You could tell the person's personality by the quality of their aura, and Kiernan's aura was very oppressive and dominant—it took many by surprise.

"Oh… What are you attempting to do?"

Zeus asked as he looked over the raging thunderclouds overhead.

"…"

Seo Donghae glanced over coldly and shielded himself with a layer of aura.

"If I go down, so will everyone else."

Kiernan said and pointed his finger down to the ground—the thunderclouds released lightning and rained down at the representatives.

"Ahh!"

"This lunatic is attacking everyone!"

The representatives released their aura images and blocked the lightning bolts.

"Haha, you fool. You're only making yourself public enemy number one. Everyone will attack you for that!"

Zeus said while his thunder-haired aura image grabbed the falling lightning bolts, made them into his own, and tied them into his waist belt.

"They don't have time to worry about me."

Kiernan said.

While the representatives blocked the lightning bolts, some of them hit the ground and caused small explosions.

The lightning bolts propelled off the shields and hit another representative—some of the representatives were indirectly attacking others at the same time.

"Hey, you made that lightning bolt hit me, you bastard!"

"It wasn't my intention!"

"Surely it wasn't, but it worked pretty well for you, didn't it?"

A representative shouted and attacked him with his aura image—the two aura images clashed—it was just the start.

Shouts of arguments filled the air, and chaos ensued after everyone found someone to argue with—the fights ensued.

Soon, the event grounds had turned into a battlefield with hundreds of aura images fighting against each other!

Wooooooo~

A sound of a horn filled the air, and another weather change happened—this time, it flooded across the arena, drenching everyone in a sudden downpour.

Everyone became neck-deep in water, struggling to keep their heads above the surface, but the aura images kept fighting above the water surface.

"Hahaha… Well played!"

Zeus said with a grin.

At that moment, the thunder-haired man picked up a couple of lightning bolts from his waist belt and threw them towards the black fortress.

The walls blocked the bolts, but cracks spread across the surface and it was moments away from breaking apart.

"With your broken leg, the aura image is taking the shape of your current physical condition. Your black fortress isn't as strong as when you're fully healthy, is it?"

Zeus asked with a smirk.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

The sound of disqualified representatives went off—with the current flooding and the fights of aura images, most of them couldn't keep up.

Thus, the number of remaining representatives went below two hundred in a matter of thirty seconds.

The second event had barely been going for over two minutes, and almost half of the representatives were already out!

Beep…

The numbers still kept going down.

"Huff… Huff…"

Kiernan gasped for breath, made the thundercloud disappear, and shielded him inside the black fortress.

He didn't have any strength left to keep attacking with the thundercloud.

"Hiding? Not happening!"

Zeus started striking the walls of the fortress with the lightning bolts, and soon enough, the walls crumbled apart, and he started striking the castle.

"Uff… Uff…"

Kiernan bit his lip, trying to summon his last bit of energy to fight back, but the pain was making enduring the constant attacks impossible.

He couldn't hold on.

At that moment, the walls of the castle broke apart, and his black fortress vanished—it was an immense hit to Kiernan's aura, and his stamina reached the end.

He didn't have any energy left to summon his aura image, even!

"Strike him down!"

Zeus grinned.

The thunder-haired man lunged at Kiernan with a lightning bolt in hand, and at the same time, a man with flaming hair jumped from the left.

"Aura Image—Sun God."

Sun said with a smile.

With a sun's flame in his fist, the flame-haired man struck Kiernan in the chest, and the thunder-haired man's lightning bolt pierced through his heart.

"?!"

Kiernan coughed in pain and dropped down to his knee—it was a heavy blow.

Beep!

On the screen, the name "Kiernan Hunter" appeared to the surprise of the audience—the third-ranked representative was already out!

The audience gasped in shock.