Martial Arts Worlds - Chapter 441

Chapter 441: Morale Breaker
“Cian O’Donnell vs. Dante Rojas!”

The temple priest shouted, and at that moment, the guard smacked the gong with a resounding impact.

“FIGHT!”

With a wave of his arm, the fight officially began!

“Whoo!”

Dante lunged ahead and rained jabs straight at Cian, but with his red hair fluttering around him, he weaved through every punch effortlessly.

It didn’t seem to matter to him as he followed up with a hook punch towards his ribs. Smack. It landed and sent Cian flying back.

“Urgh…”

Cian landed back on the sand with a spreading pain around his ribs, but he shook it off and jumped back into the fray.

They met at the center of the sand, and Dante threw a flaming fist straight towards his face.

At that moment, Cian grabbed his arm, twisted it, and threw Dante over his shoulder onto the sandy ground.

When Dante’s back crashed against the sand, he quickly swept his legs towards Cian’s and kicked his legs out from under him.

Cian was falling towards the ground, but then he put his hand down to catch himself and flipped himself over to land back on his feet.

The people watching turned excited.

“Come on, Dante, crush him!”

“This is an amazing match!”

“Cian, you can do it; you’re the strongest!”

With sand clinging to his exposed back, Dante rose back to his feet, and with his arms tightly against his chest, he weaved his upper body while moving close to Cian and threw several straight jabs.

Cian smacked those jabs away and punched Dante in the jaw, but it only pushed his head slightly to the side instead of causing any real damage.

“Yokai Style, Akaryu Soken!”

Dante threw a flaming fist towards Cian, but when he finished the punch, a flaming spear shot out from his fist and headed towards the freckled face.

Cian moved his head out of the way, but the flaming spear scratched his cheek and left behind a burning reminder.

“Tch!”

With a flash of anger going past his eyes, Cian circled around Dante, grabbed him from his elbow and shoulder, and then threw him across the temple.

He smashed through a wall, went through a knee-high table with teacups and scones, and landed in a heap on the ground.

“Urgh…”

Dante wiped the blood off his lips, stood back up, and looked through the broken wall as Cian slowly walked back over to him.

‘Something is feeling odd about this. Sure, I think I am doing well. I am doing some damage to him, but it feels like he is holding back.

‘Nothing particularly interesting stood out from his match against Genevieve, and Master Arakawa told me that he is a very basic fighter.

‘He doesn’t use Wraith Style, like most of the other students don’t, as it looks like Master Raju has abandoned his own style, which is dangerous as his martial soul can get shelled.

‘If they were only using Wraith Style, we could even know what techniques they might be using and ways to counter them, but there is no information about any of them!’

Dante took a deep breath, clenched his hand into a fist, and flames started spreading across his fist—hotter and brighter.

It was soon so bright that it looked like the whole room was full of light bulbs.

Thump!

Cian walked through the broken wall and had to squint his eyes when he came across the bright light.

“Ah, this is the Infinite Sun Destruction technique, isn’t it? It was one of the few moments I remember from your match against Ghoul Dojo.

“This was the winning technique, was it not? You think that is enough to defeat me?”

Cian asked with a laugh.

“We will see.”

Dante said and jumped ahead with a miniature sun appearing around his burning fist, but when he was ready to strike, Cian had already disappeared from sight.

It happened so quickly that Dante was left in shock, looking around frantically for any sign of where Cian had gone.

At that moment, Cian appeared below him and whipped his leg upwards, landing straight at Dante’s stomach.

“Up, and ho!”

Cian laughed and sent him flying through the ceiling.

CRACK! SMASH!

“Urgh!”

Dante punched his fist down and sent the flaming miniature sun flying straight toward Cian’s face.

At that moment, Cian’s hands started glowing, and he grabbed the miniature sun with his bare hands.

It didn’t look like it was hurting him one bit.

“Aura Fusion: Armament.”

Cian said with a smile, and then, he twirled around before sending it flying straight towards Dante, who was going through ceilings.

Dante’s eyes widened in shock, and at that moment, the miniature sun hit him and exploded with a blinding light.

Outside the temple building, all people saw were blinding lights and sounds of destruction, but they had no idea what was actually going on.

“Who is winning?”

“That bright light looked like Dante’s Infinite Sun Destruction technique! It looks like he is going all-in. I wonder if Cian got defeated!”

“We aren’t allowed to go inside the building because we might be on the way, but damn, hopefully they come out soon!”

At that moment, all eyes landed at the entrance of the temple building, and from there, Cian walked out with his hands inside the pockets of his trousers.

A small smile was playing on his lips.

“Ah!”

“Oh my god!”

“OMG!”

Behind him, a smoking, scorched-looking Dante stumbled out of the building, his clothes blackened and torn.

At that moment, he collapsed on the ground and stopped moving.

“Whistle~”

The temple priest immediately whistled, and the temple’s medical team took him away in an emergency.

They didn’t even wait for the temple priest to announce the winner, as the condition of the young man seemed very severe.

“Cian won!”

“What in the world happened there?”

“Dante was absolutely scorched. He got absolutely destroyed! How did that happen? They looked almost equal in terms of strength before!”

It left all the spectators in shock and disbelief, and when Cian walked past Yokai Dojo’s students, they averted their gazes.

He was on a completely different level.

“Dante…”

Gunwoo whispered and gritted his teeth.

They looked over and saw the score change—Wraith Dojo received their second point and were now leading the match.

‘It is no wonder that Cian’s nickname is Morale Breaker. I didn’t expect such a one-sided victory.’

Master Arakawa thought with a sigh.