“Boo! Boo! Give up already!”

“Stop wasting our time!”

“Get your shit together or scram!”

The audience was vicious with the flood of vituperation that they forced into the Drunken Brats’ eardrums. At one point, Sugar Bun wanted to lash back at them but Xuan Li told him to keep his focus.

Watching from a distance in utter discontent, Red Bull pulled an arm out of his pocket just to cover his mouth as he yawned. “What a boorish match. I at least expected these drunkards to put up a fight. Guess they aren’t as talented as that green-eyed girl from before.” He was referring to Cinder Burn who was currently watching the match through the visual sheet of her Papyrus.

“I knew it. He’s going to lose for sure. If I couldn’t beat them then so can’t he.” A smile graced Cinder Burn’s countenance when she saw how poorly Dam Son was performing on stage. “I hope he loses miserably; worse than I did.”

“Wow, you really hate his guts, don’t you girl?” Listening from the side, Balloona had to ask why Cinder Burn hated Dam Son so much.

“Because he’s damn irritating, even his name is obnoxious.” Cinder Burn furrowed her brow in disgust. Balloona interpreted her emotions differently.

After a series of evasion and counterattacks, the Drunken Brats managed to destroy Pine Punch’s summoned Paper Golems. Of course, this wasn’t much of a threat to her. She just called forth a secondary army of Paper Golems.

“Origami Clan!” Pine Punch commanded her revamped Paper Golems to surround the Drunken Brats. As they did this, D.Zypher boosted every member of the Origami Clan with hyper agility and endurance.

It was a good thing that the Drunken Brats trained really hard during their mountain climbing training, otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to endure the combined assault of so many Paper Golems. If their combat skills were a little bit better then they wouldn’t have to struggle so much.

“There’s too many of them.” The Drunken Brats quickly found themselves overwhelmed from all angles.

“Dam Son! We won’t last much longer under this condition. You need to use that thing again.” Sugar Bun was referring to Dam Son’s Natural Verb Force.

“He’s right Dark-Human. That skill of yours is our only chance at winning. I knew we agreed that winning this match didn’t matter much but I desperately want to teach these cocky Losers a lesson. What do you say, are you up for it?” Both Xuan Li and Sugar Bun gave Dam Son a concerning gaze, waiting for his input.

After a moment of pondering, Dam Son decided to unleash his potent Natural Verb Force. “I’ll do it.” His arms started producing swirling forms of dark V’s that reeked of an oppressive force.

“Hm?” Red Bull sensed something very aggressive. The next moment, he heard a loud bang, moreover, saw the Origami Clan getting blasted away almost instantaneously. “What just happened?” Both his arms were now out of their pockets. The crowd also became more attentive to the happening on stage.

“My Origami Clan was defeated in one blast? What was that?” Seeking to find the cause of her clan’s destruction among the decreasing dust particles, Pine Punch noticed an unwavering fist headed towards her face. She quickly avoided getting hit by a hair’s breadth, however, the potent Natural Verb Force oozing off Dam Son’s hand lashed out and slapped her face.

“Ouch!” Pine Punch held her face in pain with her eyes squinted. Due to this, she failed to avoid getting slapped by Dam Son’s swooshing sapphire suitcase. Pine Punch crashed against the sturdy barrier off stage.

As soon as he eliminated one of the Losers, Dam Son set his sight on D.Zypher who was standing in shock at the opposite end of the stage. Because of his increasing Natural Verb Force, Dam Son’s speed also increased drastically. As he entered D.Zypher’s range, she activated a Repulsion Script that was supposed to blast Dam Son away, however, just before he could be affected, Sugar Bun and Xuan Li dove ahead and took the hit for their comrade. This allowed Dam Son to approach D.Zypher successfully without being repelled. He delivered a finishing blow to her abdomen that sent her flying backwards. Just when she was about to cross out of bounds, Red Bull page teleported behind her and stopped her with his body weight.

“Red Bull you came to my rescue.” Looking at her handsome saviour, D.Zypher felt at ease, moreover, elated to know he cared about her.

With his hidden eyes fixated on the unknown V’s radiating from Dam Son’s arms, Red Bull became curious. “D.Zypher can you use your ability to determine what sort of Powered Script that Dark-Human is using?”

Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author.

“I can try.” D.Zypher tried using her ability as an adept Wordsmith to analyse the origin of the script Dam Son had active, but to no avail. “How can that be?”

“What is it D.Zypher?” Red Bull asked curiously.

“That kid, he isn’t using any sort of Powered Script to maintain that potent energy.”

“What do you mean?”

“I think he’s calling forth that unknown power from his internal Letter Force.”

Red Bull was shocked to hear this, “Are you serious?”

“I’m almost positive. I don’t see his Guide anywhere in sight.” As she spoke, D.Zypher glanced at Xuan Li and Sugar Bun who were couple paces behind Dam Son. “Those two don’t have their Guides out either. They are completely dependent on their physical attributes. I wonder why they refuse to use their Guides.”

Hearing what D.Zypher had to say, Red Bull couldn’t help but feel a bit intrigued. “Oh, so they came this far without depending on their Guides? How interesting. I want to see how far they can go relying on their own strength.”

Red Bull finally decided to take action against the Drunken Brats. Placing D.Zypher to the side, he called forth his summoned Word Beast, afterwards, he transformed it into a flaming sword. “Garuda lend me your strength.”

Within the next instant, Red Bull dashed ahead attacking Dam Son relentlessly. He could care less about the injured remnants of the Drunken Brats team. His main focus was getting Dam Son to submit to him but it wouldn’t be that easy.

“Ahf! His weapon is extremely hot.” The reason why Dam Son was holding out so long against Red Bull’s flaming Garuda sword was due to his potent Natural Verb Force along with his hard rock texture skin.

“He’s not letting up on me. In that case, I’ll push back. Suit go!” Dam Son used his sapphire suitcase to counteract a diagonal slash from Red Bull’s flaming sword. At the moment of impact, a frightening amount of flame encompassed Suit entirely. Dam Son was forced to withdraw his grip for a split second. Within that timeframe, he was able to deliver a powerful forward kick to Red Bull’s gut. He got blasted a couple of metres away.

“Unbelievable! He was able to hit Red Bull?” Some members of the audience couldn’t believe their eyes. A known underdog was able to injure a famed predator? “I must be hallucinating.”

Brushing off Dam Son’s footprint from his apparel, Red Bull smirked and said, “Not bad. I think that kick of yours crack one of my ribs. What should be your punishment I wonder?”

“Shut up and fight me!” Dam Son rushed ahead.

“Rather impatient I see.” Red Bull retaliated by activating dual Meteor Shower Scripts. He simultaneously cast a protective barrier around D.Zypher so that she wouldn’t be affected upon impact.

“Woah! There’re so many!” Sugar Bun almost swallowed his tongue when he observed the falling cluster of meteorites. “I’m dead for sure if those hit me! Xuan Li, please save me!” Sugar Bun hopped onto his teammate’s back like a scared child.

“Get off me! Get off!” Xuan Li tried shaking Sugar Bun loose but he held onto him tightly.

“He-he! What now punk?” Red Bull wanted to see Dam Son cower in despair just like his friends. However, what happened next, betrayed his expectation. “Huh? Did he ignore the falling meteorites to attack me head-on? I thought he cared more about his fellow teammates. Guess I was wrong.”

[Intermediate Word Mage Script: Page Teleportation] (Activated) -400(MPL)

Red Bull hurriedly teleported to safety then redirected his meteorites towards Dam Son and his teammates.

“Oh no! We’re going to get crushed!” As the meteorites began crashing into the stage, Xuan Li did his best to avoid getting squashed. The stage got more crowded which limited his path of evasion, the only refuge he could think of was to disqualify himself. Thus, he ran towards the end of the stage with Sugar Bun still on his back.

“Hey, Xuan Li, what the heck are you doing? You’re going to get us disqualified!”

“You have a better idea? It’s either this or we get crushed by those meteorites. What will it be?”

“Of course, safety comes first, but what about Dam Son, are we just going to leave him behind?”

“The Dark-Human can handle himself. Hold on tight, I’m going to jump!” Xuan Li leapt off stage just in time to prevent himself and Sugar Bun from getting smashed to bits.

Red Bull found the situation funny. He tried using it to taunt Dam Son. “You’re tougher than you look Dark-Human. To think that you were able to withstand my barrage of meteorites is simply astounding. However, your friends have abandoned you, what do you possibly hope to achieve by yourself? I’ll give you one last chance to give up, otherwise, I’ll break all your limbs. Am I understood?”

Dam Son responded to Red Bull’s taunt by rousing more of his Natural Verb Force.

“So that’s how you wish to play it? Then die!” Red Bull unleashed another set of meteorites down at Dam Son. After noticing how Dam Son was skilfully evading the meteorites while destroying those he could, Red Bull toss out 2 Gravity Splash Scripts to slow him down. “Damn he’s nifty.”

“Suit!” Shortly after evading the Gravity Splash spheres, Dam Son extended his sapphire suitcase towards Red Bull who was keeping a safe distance in mid-air.

“You think that thing can reach me?” Red Bull teleported higher until he was standing on one of his summoned meteorites. “I think it’s time I slow you down.” Next, he conjured a huge transparent sphere large enough to encompass the entire stage. When he released it below, Dam Son found himself moving at a snail's pace. He was trapped in Red Bull’s slow field.

“Ha-ha-ha!” Red Bull took advantage of Dam Son’s slowness to give him a solid beating all across the stage. He kicked him, punched him, and even wiped his foot in his face. Whenever he fought a worthy opponent, Red Bull loved humiliating them. His barrage of beatings went on for a full minute until his slow field expired.

Dam Son had livid bruises all over his body; if he wasn’t so tough, he would have shattered to pieces by now. Cinder Burn laughed menacingly when she saw how beat up he was. “I knew he would lose.”

“Dam Son doesn’t look so good.” Said Sugar Bun worryingly.

“At least he did his best.” Xuan Li remarked.

The audience continued to keep a vigilant eye on the stage. They all wanted to see how Red Bull would finish off Dam Son.