novel-bin Chapter 400: Weaker Than Me, Stronger Than Me
Chapter 400: Weaker Than Me, Stronger Than Me
The venue for the world's number one martial arts tournament is in a canyon somewhere in the central area of the island.
"I seem to be lost..."
King wiped the sweat from his forehead. Thanks to the big monster, he was able to get rid of the enemy temporarily.
However, they were trapped in a canyon covered with dense trees and were temporarily unable to escape.
Roar!
A gray wolf the size of a calf jumped out from the bushes and pounced on King from behind.
boom!
King turned around and kicked the wolf back with a whip kick.
King pushed forward with a kick of his feet, and with a series of punches, he knocked the wolf into the air. With the last kick, he hit the wolf in the abdomen, sending it flying.
After landing, the wolf whimpered and ran away in fear.
King let out a breath, secretly rejoiced, and clenched his fists.
[Thanks to Master Wu Tian’s training, I have gained some ability to protect myself…]
[But there is still no chance of winning against those monsters. ]
[Forget it, let’s leave the important task of defeating the monster to other heroes…]
[I'm sorry. I really don't have the ability to bear the title of the strongest person on earth...]
Thinking of this, King continued walking forward silently.
Not long after walking, there was a sudden rustling sound in the bushes ahead, as if something was running fast.
King took a defensive fighting stance.
Wow!
A man with glasses and wearing a green sports suit came out from the bushes in a panic, running wildly with sweat on his forehead and gritting his teeth.
A two-meter-tall tiger rushed out closely behind, chasing after it with bared fangs and claws.
"Help, help!"
When the man with glasses saw King, his eyes lit up and he looked excited.
Without hesitation he ran towards King.
King's eyes twitched: You are so rude...
While complaining, his body instinctively tensed up, ready to exert force.
boom!
King's body shot out like a cannonball, brushed past the man with glasses in one step, and appeared in front of the tiger.
The tiger roared and jumped up, opening its mouth wide and biting King.
L Dragon Fist!
King lowered his body and slid under the tiger's body. His feet sank heavily into the ground. He felt exhausted from using the ground to gain leverage. All his strength was instantly concentrated in his right hand.
A punch hit the tiger's abdomen.
boom!
The tiger, weighing several tons, was rolled up like a shrimp and was knocked away.
"Si Guoyi!"
The bespectacled man gasped, his eyes wide as he watched King send the giant tiger flying backwards.
A few minutes later, the tiger limped away like a frightened kitten.
King, sweating all over and panting, let out a long sigh of relief.
[I almost flipped over...]
His abilities were barely enough to defeat this tiger, which was equivalent to a top-level tiger monster.
If the opponent was a little more powerful, he would be the one to escape.
But the man with glasses who had his life saved could not see King's embarrassment.
He came forward and said sincerely, "King, thank you for saving me. I am grateful!"
"You are too kind. You spared the tiger even though you have the ability to do so. Do you feel bad about killing wild animals?"
No, it doesn't, you misunderstood.
Although King complained in his heart, he asked, "Hirata-kun, why are you here?"
"It's a long story..."
Hirata recounted how he was teleported to an island, and then was chased by various ferocious beasts along the way, and had to escape for the entire day.
"Fortunately, I have been doing long-distance running training recently, so I can run pretty fast..."
King listened to Hirata's story and felt that this guy was more pitiful than himself.
Hirata was a friend whom King met by chance that night.
He is just a C-class hero who can't even defeat a Tiger-level monster, but for some reason he was chosen to participate in the world's number one martial arts tournament.
After being teleported here, they are either running for their lives or on their way to escape.
How miserable...
King suddenly felt that compared with the other party, he was not so weak.
At least he could resist tiger-level monsters, and even if he encountered a demon-level creature, he could barely escape.
As he was thinking this, King suddenly said, "In that case, Hirata-kun, you should come with me. The island is too dangerous."
"Really? Thank you so much! Smith Masai!"
Hirata looked saved and relaxed.
King regretted what he said. What did I do? Am I crazy? Why did I find a burden for myself?
But seeing how much trust Hirata had in me, it was not easy to chase him away.
I sighed in my heart and comforted myself, forget it, forget it, it’s always others who save me every time, at least I can give back to society.
After all, Master Wu Tian also said that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility...
So King and Hirata went together to find a way out of the canyon.
"King-chan, I became a hero in the same year as you, but after so many years, I have always been an unknown C-rank..."
"King-chan, if there is a chance, can you let me see your special move, the Purgatory Warrior Heat Wave Cannon?"
"King, this may be presumptuous, but... can you accept me as your apprentice? I also want to become as powerful as you!"
King covered his face in pain.
I didn't expect that you, Hirata, who looks gentle and refined with thick eyebrows and big eyes, are actually a chatterbox.
……
The trial ground is a huge training ground as big as a football field inside a metal cube.
Dozens of robots were flying at high speed, bombarding the target in the center of the field.
Missiles, lasers, particle cannons.
The earth-shattering explosion caused the training ground to shake continuously.
In the center of the bombing was a sphere made up of countless petals. The pink petals emitted a faint light and were extremely gorgeous.
Facing bombardment from various high-powered weapons, the sphere composed of petals remained motionless and not damaged at all.
Then it suddenly spread out, truly like flowers scattering from the sky, with thousands of petals blooming and covering the entire training ground.
The pink petals turned into thousands of streams of water, swirling around and flowing through the surrounding robots at high speed. The petals, which were harder than diamonds and sharper than a knife, instantly shredded the robots into pieces.
In the center of thousands of rotating petals, there is a green-haired girl with green light all over her body, floating proudly in the air, stretching her body.
Tornado clenched her right hand, and petals from the sky quickly gathered together, finally forming an exquisite lotus platform under her feet.
The tornado landed on the lotus platform, and the lotus platform was suspended in the air using telekinesis.
He glanced at the robot wreckage on the ground around him and thought to himself, "With this weapon, I can definitely kill that weirdo."
Tornado became very angry when she thought about the experience of being defeated by the monster that called itself Monster King Orochi.
This is the first time in all these years that I have tasted the humiliation of failure.
She can't forgive!
Besides being angry, she was also a little annoyed.
[I should have thought of this earlier. I should have made a weapon specifically for my superpowers. This way, it would be much easier to deal with weirdos...]
Tornado blamed herself for not thinking of the correct way to use her superpowers earlier.
It was also my fault that I was too arrogant before, thinking that I was invincible except for blasting.
No one is his opponent.
Until he was severely taught a lesson by the monster king Orochi.
Tornado learned from his mistakes and reflected on his previous arrogance.
It just so happened that in this trial ground, there was something called [Telekinetic Weapon], which greatly improved her combat power.
She accepted the weapon without hesitation.
Used to make up for one's own shortcomings.
[I want to become stronger... Only in this way can I protect Fubuki! ]
Tornado said to herself firmly in her heart.