Chapter 41 Hangover 8 (1/2)

The audience was stunned at how the frail looking young Human was able to easily and swiftly restrain the big and ferocious looking Apex.

After a few seconds of silence they started to loudly cheer and chant. There was more than 200 hundred people inside the at the audience, the loud sound caused by them stunned John.

He looked around and saw that they were cheering for... Him.

John regained his focus after the Apex started to break free from his restrictive move.

”You better give up.” John kindly advised the Apex under him.

”Fuck you!” He started to struggle even harder and angrily curse John at the same time.

”Alright then...” John's voice became cold, ”I didn't want to cause you more pain then what was needed, but... You rejected my kind advise.”

John was on top of the Apex while using his left and to restrict the Apex's arm behind own back.

John resolutely moved his right arm and swiftly got hold of the Apex's other arm. John used the other arm constrain the Apex's neck between the his own arm's forearm and biceps, making the Apex unable to breath and suffocate.

The struggle became more intense and beads of sweat appeared at John's forehead as he kept holding the Apex on the position.

The Apex was very stubborn and didn't gave up as John wanted, so he applied more force and started to suffocate the Apex even more.

Soon enough the Apex stopped struggling and remained unmoved in the ground. John released him and got up.

The judge of the match was a middle-aged Hylotl, he climbed up at the Arena and hastily went toward the Apex.

The judge analyzed the Apex and once he confirmed that he had only fainted and wasn't at life's risk, he stood up and walked toward John.

”We have a winner!” The judge took John's hand and lifted it on the air, ”Fighter 0368 knocked out his opponent and now he can continue on the tournament. Stay tuned to see him at round 2, folks.”

After the judge finished he allowed John to walk away. He looked around and saw that there was quite a few people cheering for him. He amicably waved his hand toward the audience and walked away.

The moment he returned to his participant room he was met with the sight of Lenny casually lying in sofa, loudly snoring, with a bottle of whiskey in his hand.

John angrily kicked Lenny's leg. Before John's leg was able to touch Lenny's, he suddenly lifted his leg, dodging John's kick.

”You missed...” Lenny lazily opened his eyes and made a smug face.

John just rolled his eyes and found a chair to sit down, ”It worked. I was able to use the... Bullet Time.”

”That was just the first round... We need to see if you activate, deactivate at will and see if you can repeatedly activate it, as well.”

”Ahhhh...” John sighed, ”It is going to be rough.”

”Here...” Lenny took something from the cabinet and threw toward John.

John caught it and curiously looked. It was a protein bar. Something that was small but capable of making the the person who eat it feel completely full. It has most of the vitamins, protein, etc, need to keep someone alive for a day.

”You haven't ate something yet, right? You gonna need it.”

”Thanks” John opened , and ate the bar.

”Your next opponent is a Human.” Lenny pointed at the Human figure in the screen of the holovision.

John looked over and saw that the channel 8, Arena 7.