Martial Arts Worlds-Chapter 313: Twenty Percent

"First match in the fight between Montclair High and Tiamut High!"

"Zachary Lokiah versus Rose Marie Schepers!"

Crack… crack… crack…

Zachary cracked each of his fingers individually and smiled at the sight of the slight fear that Rose Marie was showing.

It made his smile widen even more.

"Are the two of you ready?"

The referee asked.

"Y-yes!"

Rose Marie shakily replied and went into her praying mantis fighting stance.

"Of course."

Zachary said with a smirk, and his fighting stance was just him flexing his muscles as if they were made of steel.

"FIGHT!"

The referee swung his arm down.

Rose Marie speared her hands forward, the tips of her fingers acting as sharp daggers, and jabbed them straight at Zachary's broad chest.

She practiced a martial art called Mantis Style, and with that style, she conditioned her fingers to be strong enough to crush bone.

She usually had no problem stabbing her fingers through the flesh, but when her fingers landed at Zachary's chest, they could not penetrate his skin.

Instead, she felt a slight fracture in her fingers. Her own attack injured her more than her opponent!

"Was that all? How pitiful."

Zachary raised his hand and slapped Rose Marie across her face.

SMACK!

She stumbled backward, stunned by the force of his blow, and felt the blood filling up her mouth.

It was the strongest attack she had ever faced, and it looked like it was just a casual attack from Zachary!

"Hmm? That was only ten percent of my power, yet you're already in the brink of losing? So weak…"

Zachary said mockingly with a look of boredom.

'Ten percent?'

Rose Marie held her cheek and turned to Zachary in a shock. She believed that he was just lying.

There was no way that slap was only ten percent of his strength!

"Have a taste of my twenty percent of strength."

Zachary raised his hand, and before Rose Marie could even think about dodging, he slapped her with twenty percent of his strength.

SMACK!

Rose Marie got sent flying across the ring and barely kept herself from falling out of the ring, but the slap made a large red mark on the side of her face and left her feeling dazed and disoriented.

Her red hair, which was as beautiful as scarlet silk, was now a tangled mess.

Her teeth, which she had kept good care of, were now chattering uncontrollably from the shock of the unexpected slap.

She noticed her coach and teammates shouting something to her, but the slap happened to land at her ear, so it made her temporarily deaf.

At that moment, Zachary stomped his foot over Rose Marie's knee and crushed it like a plastic cup.

CRACK!

"Aaaaaaaaaaah!"

Rose Marie screamed in agony and looked at her destroyed knee, which was now twisted at a sickening angle.

"You bastard!"

Ariadne screamed and wanted to jump to the ring but was swiftly stopped by Marquise.

"Calm yourself, Ariadne!"

Marquise screamed, and with his other hand, threw the white towel into the ring to signal the end of the match.

Whistle~

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"The match is over! The winner is Zachary Lokiah!"

…

Karuza High's locker room.

"This guy is a genuine piece of shit. He intentionally hurt that poor girl."

Julian said with hatred deepening in his heart and then, in anger, turned to look at his destroyed leg, which was the reason why he couldn't participate any more.

'With Flow State, I could crush Zachary under my boot, but why… did that masked fucker attack me? There must be a reason for it!'

He took a deep breath, grabbed his crutches, and hopped over to the bathroom to calm himself down.

At that moment, the locker room's door opened, and at long last, Sabbath returned from his short adventure and got seated right next to Kiernan.

"Found anything else?"

Kiernan asked.

"Nope."

Sabbath replied.

"Good job getting to the finals. It does look like you will be facing that Zachary kid in the final match."

"About those power drugs. How long do they work for?"

Kiernan asked out of curiosity.

"Based on how much Zachary had used, they should last another few months."

Sabbath said.

"What will happen after that?"

Kiernan asked.

"Oh, the side effects will hit Zachary like a train. It will be a hellish experience, and he will want to consume more of the drugs, but the more he takes, the worse it will be for him.

"It will only speed up the deterioration of his martial soul. It won't be pretty."

With a pitiful sigh, Sabbath said.

Even though Zachary was the enemy of his disciple, he couldn't help but feel a twinge of pity for him as he was still just a kid, and experience from the deterioration of his martial soul was something no one should have to go through.

"How long will that take? Till his martial soul is destroyed, and he can return back to his normal life… well, whatever life he will have after that."

"A year. It will be a hellishly torturous year for him. If he doesn't get treated, he might not survive that, but if he goes to get treatment, the doctors will know that he has taken power drugs.

"Since taking power drugs is illegal, and he'll be over eighteen years old by then, he might have to serve a jail sentence."

Sabbath said.

"That's serious, huh? Yet, that Alabaster guy doesn't care that he'll have to go through all of that. Whatever he wants must be more important than the well-being of Zachary"

"Yeah…"

Sabbath said and scratched his chin.

"I don't know what Alabaster is after, but he is willing to destroy lives to make it happen."

…

After Rose Marie was taken away on a stretcher while she was crying over her destroyed knee, the second fighter of Tiamut High, Bren, took the stage.

A look of anger was on his face as Rose Marie was his close friend, and he planned to do everything in his power to avenge her.

"Well, look what we have here… a dog."

Zachary said with a look as he saw Bren's rageful look.

"I will make you pay for what you did, bastard!"

Bren moved into his fighting stance and growled at Zachary.

"Indeed… a dog."

Zachary smirked, and once more, flexed his muscles.