Martial Arts Worlds

'Level 1?' Kiernan moved into his defensive style. 'Intriguing.'

"Haaaa!"

With blood pumping strength into every muscle, Tyler let out a howling cry, and then when his strength was about to explode, he launched himself forward with a speed that he hadn't been capable of before.

The strength was beyond the ordinary capabilities of Middle Stage Martial Fighter!

At the current moment, there was barely a couple of people in the entire nationals that could be able to put up a good challenge!

"Iron Style, Iron Palm!"

With a palm of his hand, Kiernan smashed Tyler's face with incredible force, knocking him to the ground.

With blood spurting from his nose, Tyler gritted his teeth, and jumped back to his feet.

With a loud scream, he charged at Kiernan and started throwing red-fisted punches.

He wasn't holding back in a single punch!

"Rendering Edge!" Kiernan redirected the punches away and stood like a mighty fortress.

Nothing was breaking his impenetrable walls!

"The rock-solid defense!" Timothy screamed.

"Go Tyler!" Isaiah screamed.

Tyler's tongue was flying out of his mouth, and he was drooling like a little child as he threw punch after another with his entire might.

Yet not a single one of the punches managed to break the walls of the fortress!

At that moment, Kiernan stepped closer and fully closed the distance between the two. That took everyone by surprise.

"Iron Fingers."

He placed his hands behind Tyler's neck and grabbed him from the nape of his neck, effectively holding him with his Iron Fingers.

Tyler started smashing his fists at Kiernan's chest, but from such a close-range, the strength of the punches were pathetic.

With Iron Fingers, he moved Tyler's head back and then moved his own head further behind.

"Iron Style, Iron Bell!"

With his forehead, he smashed into Tyler's face with a powerful headbutt!

Crack!

Tyler's nose cracked, and he stumbled behind while clutching his face in pain.

Kiernan placed his fist at Tyler's chest.

"Iron Fist!"

SMACK!

With a flesh-resounding smack, Tyler slid backward with a bloody cough. It felt like he was hit by a freaking sledgehammer!

"Argh…" Kiernan looked at his fingers that were badly bruised.

It looked like he was using too many Iron Style skills, and his body couldn't handle all of that.

'Gotta give it to Tyler. Without my Iron Style, it is truly difficult to fight him.'

…

At the crowd.

"He's strong!" Julia exclaimed while holding her hands over her mouth.

"Mmh." Azer nodded. "Tyler with his Force Combat is very impressive, but to think our Kiernan is still able to hold the advantage!"

A few rows away, Karma's friends were exclaiming over every punch, kick, and dodge. It felt like they were more nervous than the two fighters in the ring.

"Come on…" Karma impatiently tapped his feet on the ground.

…

Irio, Lee Residence.

Through the slightly open window, they could hear screams coming from the nearby households.

"Louie, can't you close the window?" Ruby asked. "It looks like the others are also watching the match…"

Louie closed the window quickly and immediately returned to the sofa to keep watching the match.

Mia kept weaving her head side-to-side, as if she were the one dodging the punches on the television.

"I can't seriously watch this." Ruby looked away from the television and covered her ears.

"Come on, you must!" Louie said in excitement. "Our son's school is winning!"

"What if they lose?" Ruby said and bit herself on the lip. "I can't see my son disappointed again."

"Come on!" Louie turned his wife's head back to the television. "You see by the bench?"

The television barely showed the two opposing teams' benches, and there, Ryan was currently cheering with his teammates.

"Mmh…" Ruby interlocked her fingers, and her body barely stopped shaking from nervousness.

If they now lost, it would be so disappointing!

That's the burden of hope.

…

Tyler wiped the blood off his nose and, with a scream, rushed straight at Kiernan.

With a snap of his wrist, he threw a punch, but as soon as Kiernan started to redirect it away, he whipped his leg around in a swift kick to the ribs.

"?!" Kiernan coughed in a slight pain and slid slightly to the side.

Tyler's kick to the ribs was very effective!

It managed to bypass his Rendering Edge defense!

"Shit!" Karuza High members all paled at the same time.

"Aaaah!" Tyler, with his tongue flapping out of his mouth, grabbed Kiernan by the collar and threw him to the ground with a loud thud.

With a hammer fist, he smashed it down, but before it could land, Kiernan rolled out of the way and wrapped his legs around Tyler's neck.

Then, with a roll to the side, Kiernan forced Tyler on the ground on his back and pinned his arms down with his knees.

SMACK!

Kiernan slammed his fist into Tyler's face with a loud smack.

"Cough!" Tyler coughed out blood and yanked one of his pinned arms before throwing a punch with it.

However, Kiernan easily slapped the punch away and smashed his fist into Tyler's cheek with a sickening crunch.

The crowd's cheers turned deafening as they all realized that the finishing moments of the match were here!

'This is not good!' Tyler thought as another punch landed on his face. 'Really bad!'

Within his memories, the faces of the evil Supremacists surfaced in his mind.

When he fought them, he was very afraid, but eventually he overcame the fear and defeated them.

Back then, he was also in an equally disadvantageous position.

He should've died back then, but he overcame the losing position and won!

"No!"

Tyler kicked his knee up and landed a powerful blow at Kiernan's ribs.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Kiernan doubled over in pain, and Tyler swiftly pushed him aside as he escaped the mounted position.

Swoosh!

With his leg, Tyler kicked Kiernan across the face and sent him sprawling on the cement ground.

All of the cheers from Karuza High quieted down.

"Rgh…" Kiernan, with a bloodied mouth, flipped over and slowly struggled to get back on his feet.

"Whoo!" Tyler moved his tongue out of his mouth, looking like he was barely conscious.

"I see." Kiernan straightened his back with a cold look on his eyes. "Some half-assed techniques aren't enough to beat you."

"Huff!" Tyler rushed forward like a wild beast.

It didn't look like there was much of humanity left in his beast.

With his increased blood flow, he was now having a head-splitting headache and heavy fever that started to make him delirious, but still, he was now stronger than ever before!

Kiernan shoulder-charged at Tyler, stopping him in his tracks.

"Iron Human!"

"Tch!" Tyler grimaced and kicked his knee up at Kiernan's face.

However, Kiernan sidestepped the knee, brought his fist forward, and slammed it deep into Tyler's face.

"Iron Smash!"

SMACK!

With a broken nose, Tyler let out a painful howl.

"Iron Style, Roundhouse!"

The roundhouse kick landed on Tyler's neck, and slowly, he started to slowly fall towards the ground.

Everything around him seemed slowing down.

This was the worst pain he'd ever been.

No one was cheering anymore, and just kept watching as Tyler kept moving closer to the ground without moving a muscle.

"Iron Smash Storm!"

The relentless punches pummeled Tyler to the submission. It sounded like a thunderstorm was raging in the arena.

When the last punch finished landing, Tyler collapsed to the ground with his eyes rolled back to the skull.

"The strongest…" Ryan whispered.

With that, Karuza High's supporters jumped from their seats and screamed till their voices turned hoarse.

Kiernan stood still while being showered with the cheers. He turned his gaze to the sky, a single sigh leaving his mouth.

A sigh of nervousness.

With that, he raised one arm high, a slight smile forming on his face as his teammates jumped to the ring in celebration.

A slight distance away, after they finished their match quickly, Tiamut was already walking off the stadium.

By chance, Johan looked over to Kiernan and smirked. "I hope you make it through. I want to fight you…"