Magic world

"The four members of "Hell's Nobles" voted for their valuable monthly votes, and thanked "nxcx" for the reward.

Three days was not long, and it passed by in a blink of an eye as everyone was nervously preparing for the game. It was time for the game to start again.

The eight teams that qualified for the semi-finals and the players from other teams who were eliminated but did not leave the aircraft carrier gathered in the cabin that was transformed into a fighting hall.

"Hello everyone, I am Martin, and I will still be the host of the semi-finals. Now let me explain the rules of the competition to you..." Martin, a middle-aged man in a black suit, walked onto the stage with a wireless microphone in his hand and spoke passionately. He spoke eloquently to the many fighters below.

The rules of the semi-finals are basically the same as those of the qualifiers, except that the original time limit has been cancelled, and the winning players are given a ten-minute rest period between the players' battles, so that the players who have been fighting in a row can perform in a better state. .

As for the opponents of each team, the closest two groups will compete according to the previous grouping situation. For example, the mercenary team appearing in the first group will face off against the female fighter team appearing in the second group, the Japanese representative team appearing in the third group will face off against the Dragon and Tiger Fist team appearing in the fourth group, and the superpower team appearing in the fifth group will face off. The Hungry Wolf Legend team, which appeared in six groups, and the Natural Enemy team, which appeared in seven groups, faced off against Ito Cheng's tester team, which appeared in eight groups.

"...Okay, here we invite the first group of participating teams, the mercenary team from Brazil, and the female fighter team composed of three beautiful ladies!" After explaining the rules. Martin raised his free arm and said loudly to the major, king and others in military uniforms.

The two teams did not hesitate when they heard the call, and walked out of the crowd one after another, came to the edge of the ring, and sent out their first starters.

Among them, the mercenary team sent Ralph wearing a red scarf, and the female fighter team sent Mai Shiranui in a red sexy ninja uniform.

The two walked onto the ring and stood in the middle.

"The game begins!" Martin, who retreated outside the ring, looked at the two men and then announced loudly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ralph, who advocated taking the initiative to attack, rushed towards Mai Shiranui... Mai Shiranui did not show any weakness. Half turn your body. He threw a high-speed rotating paper fan towards Ralph.

The battle started completely at this moment.

As a soldier, Ralph's attack methods are basically some military fighting techniques, and the self-flow technique he has figured out may be very powerful in close combat. But it is a bit useless for medium and long distances. Want energy fluctuations but not energy fluctuations. If you don't throw a weapon, you can't even contain it. It can be said that as long as you can distance yourself. If he has good throwing skills, he might be able to kite him until he dies.

On the other hand, Mai Shiranui is somewhat weak in melee combat, but it cannot be said that she is not at all. Even those fire-related special kills are very powerful when connected. In the medium and long range, she also has a paper folding fan in her hand that she can throw at will to attack and contain herself. Also because he was born in the ninja school, he has agility far beyond the average level, which is completely restrained for the somewhat clumsy Ralph.

Therefore, it wasn't long before Ralph made a mistake and was defeated by Mai Shiranui's special move, Ninja Bee.

Then, he fought with Clark, another number one in the mercenary team.

Unlike Ralph, who is full of high interest in the battle, Clark himself maintains a calm state towards the battle. Even if he is at a disadvantage, he will not rush forward like Ralph, but will pay more attention to protecting himself, and then Look for opportunities to give your enemies a deadly counterattack.

Therefore, Mai Shiranui failed to achieve any results from Clark using the method she used against Ralph. With no other choice, Mai Shiranui had no choice but to use a surprise attack!

But just like this, he fell into the clutches of Clark, who is a master of Brazilian grappling. After hugging, throwing, throwing, smashing, and beating, Mai Shiranui, who had no good flesh on his body, had to surrender and admit defeat, and replaced his teammates. .

Later, King entered the ring as the second server.

With the efforts of King, who has rich combat experience and is proficient in close combat skills such as Muay Thai, it didn't take long for King to see through Clark's offensive habits and follow in the footsteps of his friend Ralph. He was knocked out of the ring and hired The last man in the army - captain Hadilon called up.

Who is Hadiron? A mercenary who specializes in black jobs, he never pays much attention to tactics and means in combat. He will use any method that can help him complete his mission, whether it is assassination, poisoning, frontal attack, strong fire suppression, etc. , so under the influence of this kind of mercenary life where death is always around, he has developed very weird fighting skills and powerful assassination skills, and has very terrifying life-and-death combat experience, which is completely beyond the comparison of ordinary fighters.

So even though King had been in the underworld, had done underground boxing, and had seen many great people die, he still couldn't match the strength of Hadilon. In the end, he was injured by Hadilon and lost.

And here, it basically announced that the female fighter team had failed and been eliminated. Because Yuri Itazaki, who appeared as the third person, is also a fighter, but she is even weaker than Mai Shiranui, let alone the king who can defeat Hardiron as the captain, so after she went up, she only passed After a few rounds, Hardilon knocked him out mercilessly.

"Thank you." Takuma Itazaki walked to the ring, picked up his daughter and said to Hardilon.

Hardilon nodded, accepting Itazaki Takuma's thanks.

"The winner is, the mercenary team!" Martin announced loudly with an excited voice.

Then Hardilon jumped off the ring, retreated into the crowd with Ralph and Clark, and handed the ring to the Japanese team that would appear next, and the Dragon Tiger Fist team led by the veteran Takuma Itazaki.

It can be said that this battle is the most exciting and noteworthy battle in the entire conference.

But there is a very pretentious saying that goes well: magical powers are no match for heaven. With the blessing of the protagonist's halo, a magical ability that can gather the luck of a world into one body, the Dragon Tiger Fist team and others have developed their absolute power to more than 30% through hard training. In the end, he was defeated by the protagonist Kyo Kusanagi, who exploded with more than 35% of his absolute power, and lost the qualification to advance to the semi-finals.

Then Itazaki Takuma said to Kusanagi Kyo that he was a young man, while leading his son and disciples to leave the ring, making room for the people from the superpower team and the hungry wolf legend team who would appear next.

The result of this battle was even less surprising.

First, Tojo defeated the proud Shiiken Takashi who wanted to show off in front of Athena through a rough fight, and then Andy, who replaced Touzhan who was defeated by Athena, used bone magic to defeat Athena who used super powers. , in the end, he deliberately let the water go, saying that Zhen Yuanzhai, who was already an old guy and didn't want to torment himself to death, defeated Andy. He lost because he also had the luck of the protagonist of The Legend of the Hungry Wolf. Terry realized more than 30% of the absolute power.

As for why Zhen Yuanzhai, who clearly has the power of the universe, cannot defeat Terry, who only has absolute power, let's talk about the power of the universe itself.

What is the cosmic force? In fact, if you really want to say it, it is not a kind of power. At least it is invisible and traceless, and it is not half virtual and half real like the things generally called power. Although no observations were made. But there is a breath or something else that can be felt. On the contrary, it is more like something close to spiritual thoughts, like the light of the soul, as long as you have the opportunity. If you have that understanding and have enough persistence in a certain idea, object, or thought, you can understand it, even if you don't have the ultimate power to back it up.

This is also the main reason why Zhenyuan Zhai, despite not having the ultimate power, was still able to comprehend the power of the universe many times in advance, before many talented fighters.

According to Chinese parlance, to put it bluntly, he has accumulated enough and realized the ‘supernatural power’.

Now that we understand the basic nature of the power of the universe, let’s talk about its types.

There are many types of it, such as the one Zhen Yuanzhai realized, which can instantly see through other people's thoughts, just like the power of telepathy in super powers.

For example, Kusanagi Kyo realized later that as long as he didn't want to, it would never be annihilated, just like the immortal flame amplified and blessed by the power of thought in a certain system.

For example, in the later period, Kagura Chizuru seemed to have awakened her spiritual vision skills and gained the ability to predict the future.

For example, what Yagami later realized was that as long as he was not willing, the flame of destruction would never be extinguished until it burned everything clean.

And so on and so forth. But one thing is very obvious, that is, not all cosmic powers are suitable for use in combat, such as Zhen Yuan Zhai's power that can instantly see through people's thoughts.

Of course, you have to say that you can predict the enemy's next move by mind reading to fight, just like Aye's dragon eye. But don't forget that people's minds are complicated, and there may be a lot of information in the movement of thoughts at that moment. Just analyzing it may slow down your movements, allowing your opponent to seize the opportunity and lose the game.

What's more, in the realm of martial arts, there is also a realm of "no thoughts", which can't kill the mind-readers!

After losing the game, Zhen Yuanzhai didn't care. He walked out of the ring with his disciples and gave up the ring to the contestants behind him.

There are only two remaining participating teams, and that is the tester team composed of Ito Cheng, Mari and Todo Kasumi, as well as the world's second most lucky son Yagami An, the future gang leader Stick King Billy, and After this year, I don't know where I will go, and I have only participated in the King of Fighters tournament once in a certain generation - the natural enemy team composed of two and three ninja Kisaragi Kisaragi.

"The next team is the Natural Enemy Team, facing off against the Testers Team. Players from both sides are invited to come on the field." Martin's voice sounded at the right time.

The three of Ito and Yagami walked out of the crowd and came to the edge of the ring. There was no discussion among Yagami and others. Billy jumped onto the ring with an American scarf on his head, blue jeans and a denim jacket, showing off his solid chest and abdominal muscles. He was holding a long red stick as tall as a man.

"Since the opponent is him, it's up to me." Seeing Billy on the ring, Mary couldn't help but say.

"Okay." Ito Cheng nodded in agreement.

Todo Kasumi also nodded in agreement.

After getting the consent of both of them, Mary took off her coat and threw it to Ito Cheng beside her. Then she stepped onto the ring, walked to the opposite side of Billy and stopped.

"I didn't expect that my opponent would be you." Billy looked at Mary with a cold expression and said.

"Nothing is unexpected. In this environment, no one will be surprised if they bump into each other." Cross the fingers of both hands, turn the palms and stretch them out, then raise them high above your head, press back, and completely stretch your own lines. And Mary said, making the plumpness of her chest even more dazzling.

"In that case, there's nothing more to say." Billy held up the stick stand and said coldly.

Mary smiled slightly, released her hands, moved her neck left and right, then lowered her body, raised her arms with slightly separated fingers in front of her, and made her unique grappling gesture.

"The game begins!" Seeing the two of them getting ready, the host Martin immediately announced loudly.

Mary kicked off her feet and quickly ran towards Billy. Billy stepped forward from the stick, holding the tail of the stick with one hand, and pointed the barrel at Mary, who was running towards him. Mary stepped aside and continued running forward.

Billy raised his waist and struck Mary's body with the stick with a whistling sound.

However, at this moment, Mary jumped up in vain, flipped around, and grabbed Billy's head with one hand. Billy grasped the stick with the palm of his left hand, and at the same time, he released the palm of his right hand that was originally holding the stick, and used his left hand to push the end of the stick towards Mary in the air.

Mary grabbed the end of the stick with one palm, stretched out her foot and hooked it around Billy's head, then spun around, using clever moves to overcome the momentum of the stick, and fell to the ground with Billy.

"boom."

After finishing the blow, Mary did not hesitate to fight and quickly jumped back and retreated.

At the same time, Billy rolled up his body and squatted down from the ground. Then, Billy stood up and sent the stick out again, but halfway, the stick split into three pieces in vain and shot towards Mary at a faster speed.

Mary, who had expected this, jumped back twice in succession to avoid Billy's stick blows.

Billy collected the stick and merged it back into one, then put the tip of the stick on the ground, like a pole vaulter, violently pressed the stick into a crescent, then straightened it, and launched himself towards Mary.

This peculiar offensive method immediately reminded Ito Shige, who was watching the battle, of the fourth secret of Kugakan Kaname's stick fighting technique, Taofu.

Mary stepped aside and got out of the way.

"boom."

The impact of the stick and the ground immediately made a muffled sound.

Then Billy, who was in mid-air, kicked his feet sideways and hit Mary.

Mary leaned up and easily dodged Billy's attack. Then when Billy landed on the ground and hit her with his stick, she clenched her hands into a fist hammer, jumped and hit Billy's chest, and then exploded with power. , with an afterimage on his body, stepped on Billy's body like a ladder and stood in front of him, clamped his legs tightly, jumped up and threw him up... (To be continued...)