Multiverse Fighting Championship: I'm the President

12 – First Match

Wearing a vertical black and white striped shirt, Javier explained the rules to the two fighters. Nia still wore her ridiculous smile while Rory looked tense, with the corners of his lips twitching.

"A fighter loses if they show no signs of life, give up, can't get up within the count of ten, or their body is destroyed, so they can't continue the fight," Matt explained to the audience.

Lognar chuckled. "I love the way you said those last words, Matt! Let's see if we'll see a broken body in this match!"

"I hope the viewers have a strong stomach to see that." Matt resumed. "And one more thing that viewers should be aware of. Fighters will receive a magical barrier to protect their body if they don't wear armor. If the opponent keeps hitting that barrier, its effectiveness will decrease until it breaks."

"Then what about Nia?" The dwarf commentator pointed at the idol. "She's not wearing armor, but I'm guessing her body is mostly metal."

"You could say she is a living armor in human form, so she doesn't get a magic barrier."

At Javier's command, the two fighters took a few steps back.

"Fight!" The referee gave a signal, then the bell rang once.

Rory had already bowed to pay his respects, but Nia came straight up to that man. The warrior had to raise his shield to fend off a series of stabs from his enemy's wild ringing drill.

"You're so eager to fight, huh!?" Rory shifted to avoid the umpteenth attack. "I can understand how you feel, but don't you know the manners of fighting!? We should pay respects to each other first!"

The android idol replied with a burst of pink fire from her mouth. Rory blocked that attack with his shield again, ducked, and kicked his opponent's leg, forcing her to fall.

The light then enveloped the red-haired man's sword.

"Sorry, you have to die." He hissed and thrust the sword into Nia's chest.

The android idol widened her eyes and winced hard.

Rory pulled his weapon and backed away, inspecting the small part of his front hair that had caught fire earlier. "Sh*t."

The referee started counting. "One! Two! Three!"

"Hey, hey." Rory protested. "Why are you counting? It's obvious I stabbed her in the chest. She won't get up."

"Don't interrupt me, fighter!" The referee pointed at Rory's face. "Or I will disqualify you!"

"Alright, alright." Rory raised both hands. "Jeez, Javier, I didn't know you were like this."

"Four! Five!" Javier counted again while Rory moved to the corner of the arena.

"Nia! Nia! Nia!"

The warrior noticed some spectators calling his opponent's name, which irritated him even more. They should hail him instead. He's the hero.

"I'm not done yet!" Nia suddenly stood up, despite a vertical sword-marked hole adorning her chest. She then laughed with her mouth wide open. "You haven't felt my love drill yet!"

"What happened, ladies and gentlemen!?" Lognar hyped the audience up. "That fatal attack did not affect this young girl!"

"That's it, Lognar. As you said, she is a being made of metal. An attack like that won't take her down." Matt smiled in satisfaction. He asked Nia not to stand up immediately if she fell, and the referee counted down.

Something like that will make a match more fascinating.

The two fighters were just standing in the middle of the arena, but the cheers from the crowd still showered them.

Rory hissed. "Who exactly are you?"

"I'm an idol." Nia raised her drill, and as it spun, the crowd's screams grew even more insane. "I want to make the audience smile with my love!"

Even Matt couldn't believe they would get such a welcome from the audience at their first show.

The idol attacked yet again, and this time with more ferocity. Rory was starting to have a hard time blocking or dodging the drill. His ears were even bleeding a little because the tip of Nia's weapon hit them.

"I won't lose to someone like you!" Rory managed to counterattack by slashing his opponent's neck.

But, of course, that didn't affect Nia either. There is only a long hole showing various mechanical components in her neck. And she just got more aggressive after that.

And Nia's dominance further increased the screams of support from the audience. "Nia! Nia! Nia!"

The scars from Nia's drill decorated Rory's shield even more.

"Damn it!" When he was pushed against one side of the cage, Rory kicked Nia so hard that she fell several feet back.

That warrior was about to attack that woman, but the android idol quickly pointed her drill up.

This time, that thing managed to penetrate that shield, shattering it. Rory staggered backward because of that. His back touched the cage wall again.

And Nia did not waste the opportunity. She got up in just one second, then thrust her drill into her foe.

"Arrrghhh!!!" Rory had tried to dodge, but that drill hit his left arm joint, which was not protected by armor.

He stared in horror at the blood and bits of his arm flying through the air. Even so, with his warrior instincts, he rolled on the floor, then dashed away to the other side of the arena.

"What a brutal move!!!" Lognar amplified his voice because the boisterous crowd from the audience rained down on the arena. "I can't imagine if the attack hit his head!!!"

"Yeah, that attack just now will restrict his movements." Matt watched as the blood dripping from the warrior's hand wet the floor. "I'm quite surprised that the shield broke, even though it's made of the best metal. Maybe the attacks from Nia made it weaker and weaker."

Meanwhile, Nia didn't continue her attacks and instead bowed to the audience in each stand alternately. "Thank you! Thank you very much!"

Rory knelt with an uncontrollable breath. The voices of the spectators sounded far away in his ears, and his head began to be overcome with dizziness. Not to mention the excruciating pain in his left hand.

He wanted to die rather than continue to feel this torment.

"Are you still up to it?" The referee asked the warrior. "Or are you going to give up?"

Rory gritted his teeth. His gaze became even sharper.

The referee started the countdown.