Martial Arts Worlds-Chapter 864: Strongest - Part 11

Drip… Drip… Drip…

The blood trickled down all the corpses.

[49:43…]

[49:42…]

The time was slowly ticking down.

In the middle of the Sanctuary, Erik, Judas, and Xiao Jue exchanged a gaze, and they had been fighting for a while now.

None of them looked that tired, and it looked like none of them had shifted into second gear just yet.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

In that moment, they heard more footsteps heading their way, but it was just two men—but they weren't to be underestimated.

"…"

Michael—who was possessed by Satan—looked at the three of them with a cold gaze.

And further away, Kiernan also walked over to them with his hands inside his pockets, and he was casually looking around the place.

'It looks like most people are dead. Only the strong ones are alive… And those two.'

Kiernan saw Samuel and Isaac still hiding in the corner, and they were letting everybody else fight it out.

"Hmph!"

Erik looked at Kiernan, recognizing him as one of the not-poisoned fighters left.

Amidst them, only Erik, Kiernan, and Xiao Jue weren't poisoned because they didn't eat the food available for them.

"It looks like we're the last ones remaining!"

Judas smirked.

They gathered in the middle, and everyone looked everyone dead in the eye, and their hands clenched into fists.

"H-Hey… There are only seven of us… We don't have to fight anymore. The antidote gas will cure us all!"

Isaac called out.

However.

They were ignoring him as they knew that this was the moment that the tournament winner was decided.

"Sit down… They will fight no matter what. They don't care about the antidote gas anymore."

Samuel pulled him back down.

He was happy that the strongest ones were ignoring them and were going to fight between each other.

It meant that they had a much higher chance of survival now, and Samuel eyed Isaac carefully—he didn't trust him.

Isaac was acting all innocent and powerless, but Samuel had a feeling that he was very shrewd and was also waiting to kill them.

'The best possible outcome is for them to fight to the last inch of their lives, and then we finish the winner off, leaving only two of us left.

'I have a broken hand, but… In the fight, if I let Isaac get hurt or even better, killed, then I am sure I can finish off the remaining injured fighter.

'And I'll win—earning myself 100 million dollars and the Chip, which will make me the strongest man in the world.

'Nobody can fuck with me anymore then.'

Samuel's eyes glinted with greed.

'Who will make the first move?'

Kiernan looked between everyone, and he was trying to get an understanding of everyone's power levels.

It was quite difficult.

They were all very good at hiding their strengths, and he had no idea how strong possessed Michael was right now.

In that moment.

Xiao Jue stepped forward, and she suddenly started spinning rapidly, her hair whipping around her face, and her long nails inched closer to them.

Everyone avoided the nails, and everyone just found someone to fight and lunged straight at them.

Judas, Erik, and Michael clashed fiercely.

"Gentle Spears!"

Xiao Jue thrust her long hand—the long fingers acting as the tip of the spear—towards Kiernan with incredible speed.

She wasn't just thrusting it once, but repeatedly, like she was stabbing a long spear through the air, over and over again.

Kiernan weaved through the onslaught of attacks with a graceful, dance-like movement, dodging each strike effortlessly.

"Iron Smash!"

In that moment, his hand turned into a fist, and he brought it forward—all the strength flowing into one point at the front of his fist.

"Strength Nullify!"

Xiao Jue pushed her palm against the fist and completely stopped its momentum—it stopped as quickly as it had started.

'She completely redirected the power of my fist elsewhere. A very difficult technique to perform in combat.'

Kiernan thought with an impressed look.

In that moment, Xiao Jue was already readying for a counterattack, and her hand looked sharper than ever before.

However.

Then, Kiernan stabbed his fingers through the ground, grabbed it with his fingers, and lifted the ground up.

"Worldlift + Gaia's Embrace!"

The ground under Xiao Jue's feet got lifted, and she was sent flying through the air—she gracefully twirled around in the air and landed back on the ground.

She looked slightly shaken by the attack, as she had never seen someone lift the ground like that before.

Not to mention that he only did it with one arm, so his physical strength was simply ridiculous.

"Haah!"

At that moment.

Erik punched at Judas and sent him flying—flying straight towards Kiernan—and he was very open.

"Iron Lance!"

Kiernan thrust his spearhand towards the flying Judas, but at that moment, Judas touched the ground with his feet and flipped over him.

"?!"

Kiernan watched as he flew over him, and then Judas landed back on his feet right behind him and quickly attacked him.

"Killing Blow!"

Judas reached his hand towards Kiernan's back, but at that moment, Kiernan grabbed Judas' hand and twisted it.

"Anatomical Bind."

"AH!"

Judas dropped to his knees with a shocked look on his face.

"Triple Point Strike!"

With a hooked finger, Kiernan punched him three times in the face, and Judas' eyes shook violently.

Anybody else would've fallen unconscious by now… but not him.

Judas' eyes returned back to normal, and he quickly backed away from Kiernan with cold sweat running down his back.

'I can't let myself get touched by him. He was somehow able to take complete control over my body and force me down to my knees.

'Very dangerous individual!'

Judas thought with a dark look.

Smack! Smack! Smack! 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

In that moment.

Michael rained Erik with punches, and the strongest man in Europe was honestly staggering backwards.

'What is this?'

Erik frowned.

He was just parrying Michael's punches, but he had a bad feeling in his gut, like he was about to die.

'My heart feels tight…'

Erik thought.

In that moment, Michael stopped punching and instead thrust his hand towards Erik's chest—he was going for the heart!

"Not happening!"

Erik grabbed his wrist and suddenly headbutted Michael in the face, probably breaking something in the process because of the loud cracking noise that followed.

"Ugbh!"

Michael staggered backward with a bleeding face.

'Ahhh, that hurts!'

The real Michael inside his head screamed as he could also feel the pain very vividly because he was still inside the body.

'Stop bitching. Pain is part of the fighting!'

Satan screamed inwardly.

Then he ran straight back to Erik and continued the fight.

Swoosh~

Xiao Jue fluttered gracefully through the air, and she was coming straight back to Kiernan—not done fighting him just yet.

Kiernan saw her coming.

In that moment, she twirled and kicked at him, but he blocked it with his forearm, and she quickly did a heel kick to his temple.

Kiernan grabbed her leg. She flinched in pain. He then threw her to the ground, but she caught herself.

She touched the ground with her hands before falling headfirst and flipped herself back to her feet.

She was like a cat!

No matter what, she was always going to land on her feet.

"I am not done with you either!"

Judas suddenly ran over and tried punching Kiernan.

"Sweeping Catch!"

Kiernan grabbed the fist and was about to break the wrist, but then Xiao Jue thrust her hand towards him.

She was trying to use Judas as a decoy to do a killing move on Kiernan.

Kiernan slapped her hand away, and he backhanded Judas before uppercutting Xiao Jue in the chin.

They both staggered backwards with a shocked look on their faces.

"You two can fight me at the same time. It does not matter. It'll be too easy for me otherwise."

Kiernan said with confidence, and he moved into Iron Style's defensive stance.

They had no idea where he was getting this foolhardy confidence from, but they had to admit one thing.

He was ridiculously strong!

It was strange since they had never heard of him, but he was clearly one of the strongest they had ever come across.

"Bold statement."

Xiao Jue said.

"…Hmph!"

Judas didn't care about working together with Xiao Jue and just attacked Kiernan straightaway—Xiao Jue didn't care about helping him either, but she also only attacked Kiernan.

"Rendering Edge~"

His hands moved flawlessly, and all attacks thrown at him were effortlessly deflected. This was a master at work.

Flawless defense!

"Grr!"

"Tch!"

They tried again, again, and again.

Yet.

None of their attacks landed, and Kiernan even started to look bored, so he started advancing towards them.

"Iron Jab."

Kiernan's iron-hard jab landed at Judas' cheek—which sent him flying—and he then quickly avoided Xiao Jue's sharp kick.

"Bullet!"

Kiernan's wobbling fist slammed into Xiao Jue's slender waist, and she got sent flying through the air with blood flying out of her mouth.

Dominant victory!

"…"

Michael turned to see that Judas and Xiao Jue were injured, and he stopped attacking Erik momentarily.

"We will postpone this fight. I have hearts to collect."

Michael turned around and walked over to them.

"Huh?"

Erik frowned and didn't plan to leave him so early, but in that moment, from the corner of his eyes, he saw Kiernan.

He turned to Kiernan and saw the fire in his eyes.

They both realized that they were the strongest ones in here, and they were the only ones that could give each other a proper fight.

Erik and Kiernan locked gazes.

Then…

They moved, and their punches clashed.

SMACK!

The sound echoed throughout the Sanctuary.