Building The Perfect Harem With My Heavenly Desire System-Chapter 36: Outclassed
Chapter 36
Bang!
The impact rattled through Alex’s body, the sheer force driving him half a step back.
’Shit!’
He cursed under his breath while enduring the dull ache in his ribcage. Before Alex even had time to recover, the baby-faced girl snapped her legs up in a low kick toward his knee, but he twisted just in time and threw a desperate counter-punch of his own. She flashed him a mocking smile and dodged the blow by an inch. Using that split second where his hands were still fully withdrawn, the baby-faced girl used the opportunity to deliver a sharp knife-hand chop towards his neck.
Alex gritted his teeth from the attack and tried to deliver another punch, this time faster. But it felt like she had already anticipated what he was about to do and shifted just enough to let his knuckle graze her cloth. She then answered back with a back elbow that smashed directly into his shoulder.
It was too fast, he couldn’t dodge it in time so he lifted his hand and blocked it. Still the impact felt like being hit by a truck. Alex was increasingly shocked with how the fight was going. Just how strong was this girl? Even after leveling up, she still had the upper hand... No this couldn’t go on, he couldn’t just stand there and passively take her attacks. Even if She was just too strong, there still had to be a way to take this girl down. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢
With that he rushed towards her, throwing a flurry of jabs, crosses and hooks. But she blocked the first attack, dodged the second with a grace that defied physics and caught the third mid-air. Her hand felt like a steel vice. Before he could pull back, she drove her knees into his stomach, causing air to rush out of his lungs as he wheezed in pain.
He really had to give it to her, the girl could really pack a punch. Though it was nothing he couldn’t endure. Still he found himself getting overwhelmed by her strength. In just a few minutes since they had started she was already dominating him. But more than that, he did notice one thing. That was; Whenever he threw an attack, it felt like she had already predicted where it was going to land and had prepared both a counter and a follow up.
Now that was one of the biggest problems, how was he going to adjust to that. He was literally fighting someone with the same amount of strength as him, who was more skilled and lethal, while he was just a noob who happened to gain a system that gave him strength without the proper fighting techniques and training.
He was forced to focus back on the fight, the moment the baby-faced girl pressed forward and delivered a second gut wrenching punch into his stomach, driving him back step by step. While disoriented, Alex came up with an impossible plan, though it seemed utterly useless against someone like her, it was still the only shot he had at landing a hit.
As she stepped in to deliver a lethal side kick at his torso, Alex didn’t dodge it, instead, he gritted his teeth, endured the pain and grabbed her outstretched leg, yanking her body toward him and delivered a brutal headbutt to her face.
Normally, that would have knocked a normal person out, but all it managed to do was draw a thin trail of blood from her nostril and replaced her cocky smirk with a pissed expression.
Her face grew serious, now it looked like she was done playing games with him. Suddenly, her speed increased, and she drove a fist brimming with overwhelming killing intent toward his chest, but Alex was able to twist just in time, though barely. He heard a thunderous sound from behind him and turned back. What he saw made him break out in cold sweat.
There was a spider web crack on the concrete wall, the crack was around two inches deep. Alex began to wonder what kind of monster was this. She was literally a beast, no this was not something a normal or even above average human could do. She rushed forward with a dash and her figure instantly became like that of a phantom, it was too fast for the normal eyes to catch but to Alex it was still manageable.
She delivered a right hook straight for his temple but he managed to put his forearm up at the last second and countered with a punch to her guts. She twisted mid-air at the last seconds and swiped his feet off the ground, sending him crashing into the ground.
From the sidelines, Nyx, who had been watching their exchange, was beginning to grow a bit surprise with every minute the fight lasted. She had expected her bodyguard, a woman with no rivals in the entire city, to be able to put Alex down in seconds. Yet, he seemed to be keeping up, albeit not without major damages, but still, he was going toe to toe with one of the best.
"He’s actually pretty good," Nyx murmured under her breath with narrowed eyes.
Alex forced himself to upright and rushed toward the baby faced girl, this time pushing every ounce of strength he could muster to the limit, and tried to deliver a devastating hook that would end the entire fight. His punch clipped her shoulder, and for a second he thought he’d found an opening but he was wrong.
The moment he moved, her lips curved. It was that fucking look again —like she had already seen this exact scene play out in her head. She caught his wrist firmly, then generating power from her waist to arm, she yanked him in and rammed her shoulder into his chest, causing Alex to fly backward and slam his back heavily into the crystal glass desk, shattering it into a million jagged pieces. Without giving him time to breathe, she drove her fist into his face until stars burst across his vision.
Waves after waves of punches rained down his face causing blood to start pooling out of his lips. Alex began to wonder whether this was it, whether this was the part he would die. He had died like a piece of shit in his previous life, was he going to die again. No! He refused to die like this, he refused to remain weak. With a sudden surge of adrenaline he threw the baby faced girl off his body, and swung two sets of punches instinctively. She parried one, slipped the other and stepped into his guard, but this time Alex was ready.
Using that little opportunity he had so desperately created, Alex drove a fist into her stomach, causing her cute delicate face to finally grimace in pain. But she recovered from it and used her knees to hit him straight in his injured ribs, the exact spot she had first hit him, sending Alex crashing into a chair.
Slowly walking toward him with a serious expression on her face. The baby faced girl was actually surprised at this annoying man’s tenacity. He just seemed to be like a bug who refused to be squashed, no matter how hard you hit it.
Still bursting with adrenaline, Alex charged forward aiming for her plump chest, but she met him head-on. They quickly traded a series of heavy blows in the span of a single breath. He was able to block two and almost landed one but she suddenly changed stance at the last minute, as if she had already seen the attack.
Hooking his arm, she swept his leg, slamming him heavily to the ground. This time the baby faced girl used her left foot to pin his wrist while the other pressed into his chest, crushing his already aching bones. He struggled desperately, trying to push her off but it was pointless. Her grip was just too firm.
At this point, Alex just wanted to give up. What was the use of struggling when she was literally going to make quick work of him again. Maybe... It was okay if he just accepted the pain, but his mind flashed back to the pieces of vase on the floor, the sound of Emily and Zack arguing how they were going to bury his body, to the two children that weren’t his, to the bastard of a boss who had fired him after working tooth and nails for the company. All the overwhelming emotions slammed into Alex so much so that his body began to tremble.
He had promised that he would grow stronger, that he would never remain weak in this life. That in this life he would control his own destiny. That small spark seemed to light his exhausted body with strength.
With a guttural scream, he grabbed the baby faced girl’s ankle, forcefully drew her to the ground, and delivered a powerful punch that sent her body crashing straight into the wall.
She groaned in pain while sliding off the concrete and slowly stood up. This time her eyes weren’t fill with the earlier mockery or contempt. in their place was a look filled with profound respect and something unreadable. A thought crossed her mind as she wiped the blood from her delicate lips, ’Could he be... one of us?’
