Chapter 204: Knees
“Ladies and gentlemen! Are you ready!?”
The announcer’s voice cut through, and just as the crowd’s cheers peaked, his voice boomed again:
“Let the royal rumble… begin!!!”
‘Someone’s coming.’
The announcer’s voice had barely dropped before Malakai felt movement.
He felt the vita roaring through his body and reached outward. The world twenty meters around him ignited like a canvas. Malakai saw all.
The expressions of the men around him hardening as they each prepared to move on him. The movements of their vita. The tense of their legs.
And… the figure tearing through his vita field with an explosive dash.
‘A Sudrex,’ Malakai’s thoughts were calm.
The man he had fought earlier had also been a Sudrex. They were one of Sylvastein’s ruling clans, but considering the fact that he was here fighting made his standing in the clan clear.
The Sudrex were a clan with powers centered around their sweat glands. In simple terms, they controlled their body heat and could use it in battle for explosive movements.
The man’s movements were exactly that. Explosive. Heat radiated off his body in steams, a thin coat of red surrounding his arm that screamed towards Malakai.
But unfortunately for him, his opponent was someone who could read attacks coming from a mile away.
Malakai jerked to the side, the blazing heat from the punch kissing his skin as the attack screamed past him.
The man’s eyes shot wide in shock. He moved to attack again, but Malakai had already retaliated.
His fist came crashing down the side of the man’s knee. The force of the blow shifted flesh and bone sharply to the side, a sharp snap ringing out as the bone broke and came out from the other side.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
The agonizing screams that tore out of the man’s throat shattered the brief silence that had gripped the arena.
Most hadn’t even seen the movements. At one moment the announcer started the round, and the next, a man was screaming.
As eyes found the source, they narrowed.
A large man with muscles like steel stood in front of their target. Right knee bent at an unnatural angle, shattered bones sticking out.
His screams had turned high pitched, sounding like a girl’s, but the man didn’t seem to care.
He tried to limp away from the devil beside him, but he wasn’t given such respite.
Crack!
A sickening sound rang out. The man looked down toward his left knee. Like the right, it had bent at an unnatural angle, bones sticking out.
The man’s balance left him before he could comprehend the events. He crumpled to the floor, crimson blood pooling beneath him.
His screams came next, agonizing.
“ARRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!”
The crowd had fallen silent, and his screams were the only thing that rang out.
The sounds of footsteps suddenly echoed, and people turned their trembling gazes to see the cause of their shock walking towards the screaming man.
He reached him.
Bam!
His leg slammed into the man’s face, sending his broken body out of the arena.
“One down.” Malakai’s voice sounded like the voice of death.
He turned to face the other contenders, and many took a step backward, gulping.
This kid… this devil… was brutal.
Malakai’s footsteps rang out once more as he began walking. Those around him took as many backward steps as he took, bodies tense, stances low. Many had activated their powers.
Skins had hardened. Eyes had flushed another color. Hairs hovered above heads. Nails stuck out like claws.
But no one made a move. The tension could be felt. No one wanted their knees broken. No one wanted to be the experiment.
Silence gripped the underground den, until one man broke it.
“A hundred thousand.”
As Whiteshade’s voice rang from above, the men’s eyes turned red. A hundred thousand… that was enough to purchase a full house on the good sides of Sylvastein.
Hands clenched, and they each gazed at Malakai with a new intensity. That money… there was no way they were letting it slip through their fingers.
“He’s mine!”
A slender man with elongated, sword like nails was the one to act first. He dashed from the back, nails moving to rip Malakai apart. But Malakai only sidestepped, the nails missed.
His fist impacted the man’s midsection, sending the air out of his lungs along with a mouthful of blood. Before the man could recover, a kick crashed onto the side of his knee, shattering it.
He had barely begun screaming before another blow sent him hurling out of the arena.
“Two down.” Malakai said, but this time around, there was no pause. As the nail man had moved, many had followed.
Attacks rained down from every side. Hair threading to bind him. Greenish liquid that was undoubtedly poison. Bone crushing punches meant to shatter him.
And because of this, the contenders’ eyes had lit up. With so many attacks hurtling toward Malakai at once, there was no way he could evade it with Genesis rank strength.
Now, they just needed to figure out who would claim the takedown.
It took a second… but as the attacks appeared inches away from their target, they saw it.
He wasn’t there.
Eyes exploded wide.
Crack!
Crack!
Crack!
The sickening sound of bones breaking filled the entire underground den, followed by the piercing screams and the brutal thuds of bodies hitting the floor.
The gazes of the crowd widened as they saw many of the contenders falling to the ground, their limbs broken.
Their eyes darted around, searching for the source, only to lock onto a black blur weaving through the onslaught of men.
Attacks rained down from multiple directions, aiming to bind, rip, and tear him apart. But he weaved through them like a flow of water, arms shooting forward and breaking bone.
As the crowd began to comprehend the events, their hearts couldn’t help but tremble. What were they watching?
Malakai was also wearing a regulator! There was no doubt.
Which meant his strength was limited to the Genesis stage, just like the thirty other contenders on stage. From his speed and power, they could tell he hadn’t bypassed it.
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