First Fight!

Chapter – 48 First Fight!

"Everyone now, I would like to invite our next fighters on the stage! Give them a loud cheer!" the same guy from earlier who had walked inside the waiting room was now announcing on the stage. Saying that he stepped down from the stage and from the waiting room Max and the Big guy came out. "For our next round, we have 'James' the fighter you all are familiar with and on the other side we have a newcomer 'Max'. Now let's see if this match is going to be a new beginning for Max or his end here?" the announcer said that, and started the fight.

"Hehehe, because of you I'll be earning some extra fortune and fame, I'll make sure to send some gifts to you later," James said, putting metal knuckles on his hands. These metal knuckles were his main weapons from the childhood James was more of a fist guy, rather than using a sword, bow, or any other weapons, he wanted to use his own fists to deliver the pain in his opponent's body. With his huge body and physical strength, his fists were lethal enough to kill some persons in a single strike.

"I just need to avoid his fists and I'll be fine." Max thought as he saw James had already jumped towards him and he was aiming for Max's face but to him, James felt slow. Before James could even hit him, he had already moved behind James, taking out his sword from his sheath Max was ready to strike him. But James had experience and he had moved his body mid-air to defend himself from Max attack while he fall to the ground on his back.

"So, you had a bit of talent in you. Not like it's going to matter anyways." Getting up from the ground James was not being rash this time, he knows if the other person can move behind him at that speed. Then he surely held some threat to him, but the question was, why was he not attacking him? "His speed is the same as an advance beast, should I reduce my speed to fight him longer." Max was thinking, what should he do to keep this fight going, cause if he used his full speed then defeating the other guy is going to be easy.

The crowd was getting more hyped as they can see that newcomer had some skills. So, the fight is going to be longer, and rather than being a one-sided fight, the outcome is going to be unexpected now. James was waiting but seeing that Max was not making any move, he again took the initiative to attack first but this time rather than jumping, he was closing the gap between them slowly. When Max was in his rage he started throwing punches at him, his punches were really fast they were creating a small blur. Distinguishing between the real and fake one would have been hard for the crowd and James' opponents but Max was easily able to dodge every single punch of his.

"What the heck! How is he able to dodge them so easily?" James was getting tensed up, nobody in his league was ever been able to dodge his punches that easily, sometimes they were able to dodge them but still they would have gotten hit at least once by him. Max was avoiding every single one of them with just simple movements, he would back up a bit or move his body a bit to avoid the punches. "Should I attack now? He is losing his control now, at first his punches were coordinated but now they had become a mess." Max thought as he again dodged his punch, Max was still fine but James on the other side was not looking good.

"What should I do? If I lose against him everyone is going to laugh at me, I don't wanna become a joke in front of everyone." James was becoming restless as he wasn't able to hit Max even once. And Max still hadn't started attacking him. "Why is he just standing there?" James run towards Max with a burst in his speed and started aiming for his lower body, this time James was feeling that Max reaction speed was getting slower and now he was seeing a hope to defeat Max. "just one punch and you won't be able to use your speed against me after that." James just wanted one of his punches to hit Max.

Max was not getting slower because he was tired or there was something wrong with him, he was doing it deliberately, rather than dodging all the time he was thinking to defend against his attacks. As James' punches were again becoming coordinated and he was aiming at vital points of him, Max was defending those places by bringing his sword there, James was only hitting the flat area of the sword. Max was able to feel the power of those punches as every time he defended himself from his attack, he was losing a single point of his health, until now he had lost a bit more than ten points of his health.

"I'm getting better in this now, with my full speed I'll be able to defend against at least two people at a single time now. I guess he is not going to be of any help to me. Let's end this." Max thought as he was able to grasp the timings and in what way he should be able to defend himself properly without taking too much damage. Using his legs Max made a swipe toward James' feet and made him lose his balance before James could gain his balance again Max had used his sword to make a slash on James' chest, his sword hit James and blood spurted out of there.

James was on the ground but before he could stand again, Max was already stepping his chest by his feet, and his sword was pointed near James' neck, "Give up" Max only said two words but that was enough for his opponent. As James had already realized that winning against him is not possible. "I give up!" James said those words as no one had expected him to be the one losing this match. Even though they had found Max a worthy fighter but they keep thinking that James is going to win because of his experience. After a long silence, the crowd burst into loud cheering for Max, making him a bit nervous because of all the cheering he was receiving.

"Take him to the medical room." The announcer said to some guys who were there to bring the injured to get treatments for their wounds. They didn't waste any time in that, picking up James, they put him on a stretcher and take him to get his wounds treated. It was not like that James was not able to fight anymore but he knew, in the end, he was going to lose, so he chooses to do it with fewer injuries so he can continue the other fights. His wound was not serious but for precaution he let those guys put him on a stretcher and take him to the medical room.

"Congratulations to our winner, Max. This little guy here has made history here, as no newcomer has ever defeated an experienced fighter here. Give him a loud applause everyone." The announcer started creating the hype as Max was sent to the waiting room until he was called again to his next fight. "I didn't expect that you will be able to defeat that guy. Guess, no one is going to make fun of you anymore." Neil said as he was able to see that everyone in the room was now looking at Max differently.

"These guys are going to take you seriously from now on, Max. You need to be careful when you fight them." Neil suggested but Max wasn't paying attention to him, his mind was focused somewhere else. As there was a System Notification in front of him, which he hadn't noticed when his fight was over.

[Kill the Human to absorb their soul.]

It was a small message but Max wasn't able to understand what does it mean, what is going to happen after he kill a human and absorb their soul, is he going to get some kind of power boost from it or there was something about his system that he didn't know yet. He stopped thinking about it when he realized that Neil was shaking him to see if he was conscious or not. "Dude, are you okay? If there's something wrong with your health you should visit the medical room to get a checkup." Neil suggested, "Nah, I'm fine. I was just thinking about my last fight. There's no need for a checkup or anything else." Max said and sat down on the benches to wait for his next fight.

"Are you going to come here daily? We should make a team and register for team fights if you're going to come here daily. What do you think, Max?" Neil said as he was an archer and it would be best for him to fight in a team, he can attack their opponents from a distance while the other one would keep them busy by fighting. He would be able to attack their vital points and they won't be able to dodge because they will be fighting Max at that time.

"I'm sorry but I'm not planning to come here daily. It's just for the time being until the beast in the forest has been killed. After that, I'll be hunting in the forest." Max said as he had no interest in continuing to fight here daily. And for some reason, his system was not even giving him any Exp. for defeating the humans. It would be a waste for him.