Chapter 87: Meeting a Friend (1/2)
'New Challenger!'
The other end entrance opened revealing a masked guy not wearing any armor just like Rex,
He wears a black tank top with a necklace decorating it, combat pants that hugged his legs tightly, and his body is jacked, unlike the usual lean students.
From a glance, Rex can already feel this guy's dominating pressure.
He somewhat felt the guy's aura is familiar, 'Did I know him?', Rex thought with a frown.
The guy started to walks inside the Arena with steady steps,
His demeanor tells Rex that he's not impressed with Rex's feat before, his long strong stride adds a confident aura around him making Rex feel annoyed.
The guy stops about five meters away from Rex, his back is straight as an arrow.
Rex is trying to figure out the familiar guy in front of him, he just can't put his thumb on who this familiar guy is.
”Who's that?”
”Masked student? I never saw him before”
”But his demeanor looks similar to that guy, the first-year top three ranker”
”Now that you said it, he indeed looks like that guy. He even has a gold orb”
The guy stares at Rex from behind his mask, ”You changed, I'm quite surprised that you have become this strong. It also shocks me to see you here, I thought you will not be interested in this kind of tournament”, he said with a muffled voice.
Hearing this, Rex becomes more certain that this guy is someone he knows.
Before Rex can even answer,
'Begin!'
The hologram screen announces the start of the fight, the guy instantly dashes towards Rex.
He wears brass knuckles similar to Rex's, the decisive dash and movement are all telling Rex that this guy is an expert!
BAM!
Rex blocked the guy's right punch, he can feel his force barrier trembling for a bit.
'This guy is strong!', Rex thought, he then jumped back to create a distance between them trying to restart the match.
Rex knows that the first one to close the distance will have the momentum in hand-to-hand combat, so he's trying to restart the fight.
Looking at Rex jumping back, the guy smirk.
Swoosh!!
The guy's body glows with a red aura, his movement becomes even faster as he rains a flurry of punches towards Rex.
BAM!
BAM!
BAM!
Rex got pushed back because of the punches, it is way heavier than P-1's attacks before.
He dodges the guy's left hook and counter with an uppercut towards the guy's chin, Rex's counter is flawless and it is very hard to dodge or block it.
Just before the punch landed, the guy suddenly jump dodging the punch by a hair's length.
'What?! His reflex is pretty good, he's even better than any students I fought', Rex thought, he was surprised that his counter got dodged easily.
The guy landed a couple of meters away,
'This is my chance!', Rex thought as he dashes like a shadow, he arrived in front of the guy in mere seconds.
Rex can see the guy is surprised, he then rains punches towards him.
Every punch he sent is targeted and decisive, it should overwhelm any opponents he fight even during his military times against veterans but the scene in front of him shocked him to the core.
The guy's defense is rock solid, he blocks and dodges every punch and even has the time to counter some of them.
The crowd was mesmerized by the fight, even the other fight stops after seeing Rex's.
”Oh my god! They're even!”
”I don't know which one to root anymore, they're both good!”
Trevor's eyes glued on the fight, it is his passion to become an expert of hand-to-hand combat.
Hera was also shocked, she can't believe that someone can be on par with Rex's hand-to-hand combat that even no students in Ochyra University come close.
Rex dodges the guy's counter and sends a kick towards his right kidney,
The guy noticed that he can't dodge it so he quickly twists his body and sent a spinning back fist towards Rex's head.
BAM!!
Both of them got hit,
Rex's kicks landed on the guy's back because of the guy's movement, while the guy's spinning back fist got planted right on Rex's face. They got flung a couple of meters before stopping.
Blood leaked out of both of their mouths, the attack they receive is heavy and it definitely hurt them both.
After a brief pause, they dash to each other again.
'His defense is rock solid! I need to aim his legs', Rex thought, during the military, he is taught to aim at the opponent's legs if they are turtling. It will make them opened up and do mistakes.
Rex swing a low kick but suddenly,
Grab!
Before Rex can even aim at the guy's legs, the guy already anticipated this and grab Rex's leg and push him to the ground.
'Shit!', Rex fell to the ground.
The guy quickly get on top of him pinning Rex down,
Rex's hands is held by the guy, he's in an unfavorable position with his chest exposed to attack.
Just as Rex wanted to get out of the position, he saw the guy's mouth started to get fiery as fire mana concentrate.
In the nick of the moment, Rex manages to pull his leg and kick the guy off of him.
Rex then rolls backward and stand back up with his battle stance, he then said, ”That's cheating, I thought we're fighting using fist only”