1.09 Fighting Vulture again!

It didn’t took Sura long before he fixed all the watches and went to sleep, his dexterity while fixing things has also multiplied y 3x, his understanding of glyphs and circuits increased by a huge margin over the evening, but not enough to create his own glyphs, though he was able to tweak some of the glyphs according to different uses.

“Now to sleep! My body will be back to top tomorrow morning.”

Sura went to sleep without further-a-do. That Vulture guy sure did a number on me! I can’t believe that I couldn’t even land 1 hit on his body. And what was with his fighting style, he didn’t give any opening during the whole fight, even his crotch was guarded!

Sura thought that he needed to change the way he fight, his fighting style seems orthodox, and it may work on amateurs but considering professionals like Vulture, Sura still had a long way to go.

During dreaming this time, Sura kept seeing himself getting beat up by Vulture again and again. Fuck this shit! Thought Sura in his dream.

*

The next morning Sura ate 4 more cans of meat and felt his body refreshed, the broken bones seemed to be mend now and he felt stronger than before, though like previous time his brain power has not increased, but the muscles in his body have developed a lot in the short period of time due to the drug he took.

I already earned a lot of credits. Sura for the rest of the morning browsed through the public released glyphs, and his eyes didn’t waver for a second from his computer, his watch having synced with the computer allowed him to see level glyphs on his computer, he never stopped from the easier ones to complicated glyphs, all were read by Sura, he even wrote some of the main points while browsing. The watches were already fixed, he had a whole free day.

He planned to go to the underground arena again during evening, and considering his body was now at its peak, he can go learn there a thing or two.

And I want to fight with that Vulture guy again. He probably never stays at that place for whole day, so considering yesterday’s event, he is present there at least around 4pm.

Sura planned to arrive there a bit earlier and get himself a bit worked up in the arena’s gym before fight. He won’t bring any money this time accept the participation cost.

*ring *ring

Sura turned around towards his watch, a call from certain fatty was coming.

“What is it? Brohimir!!”

“Helius… I just wanted to give you today’s notes.. I have already sent the mail to you!!”

“You just don’t want me to be free!! Do you?”

Brohimir laughed at his friend’s outburst.” Haha!! You are having a vacation and I am getting grinded in this boring academy!... at least I can spoil your fun a little.”

“HAHA!.. very funny! Just go and eat some sausage and stuff!” With a little bit of sarcasm, Sura cut of the call.

And I am not having fun you fatass! I got beaten up pretty badly yesterday.

Sura spent the rest of the day experimenting with the new glyphs. His hand worked like lightning as he drew one circuit after another on the crystal chips, he ran every single one of them, and seeing that the rate of successful glyph inscription has increased than the last time he created the glyph, he felt elated.

“Probably my sudden increase in brain processing made my hand-eye coordination advanced the next step. Though I need to spend some time before I become adept at level 3 technology. Being adept at glyphs doesn’t make me adept at the technology it was used in.”

I need to spend some time before becoming an artifact apprentice.

Seeing the time still only be 12:30 pm, Sura got up and went out of his apartment.” Maybe I should reach there sooner and learn from other’s fights, maybe I can learn something besides attacking at the critical parts of his opponents.

It didn’t take long before Sura reached the arena and join in the crowd.

All around him people were shouting and hailing curses at each other, the place where he stood was close to the betting stand and so it was a usual occurring.

Getting close to the arena, he could see a 2 people fighting each other, they also didn’t seem to be at Hunter stage and were in only human stage, with their face covered in mask and their body was riddled with injuries and with each punch one more wound appeared on their body, they didn’t seem to stop in the least and continued to kick and punch each other.

They appear to be much slower than Vulture, but they know how to fight though unlike me!

Being his brain processing power 3x faster than normal human stage experts, he could see each attack the men were unleashing on each other. He stared at each attack clearly, his enhanced vision helped him look at the fighters with a more detailed view than the other people.

Ah!! Now I see why that Vulture guy and these men are wearing mask, they don’t want themselves to be identified outside the arena!... you stupid Sura!

Sura left the arena and went into the market to buy a mask, he just went and bought the most normal looking mask he can find.

“This one looks good, my new name will be Toilet Monkey!”

It was a monkey mask with turd moustache. And for some reason, Sura thought it to be cool.

Placing the mask on his face, he went back to the arena and registering his new name in the registry went into the arena gym to practice, people all around him looked at him as someone look at a weirdo. Who with a sane mind will wear a mask like that during a fight, but they should have questioned. Who has enough time to make a disgusting mask like this?

Sura focused his attacks at one point of the sand bag, increasing his speed is the only way to tackle Vulture’s fast and swift attacks.

*

In a room where a multiple hunter stage experts build their bodies, Vulture was by himself sitting in a corner with his iconic mask and bandages covering his body.

“Titus! You can remove that thing in here, everyone knows who you are!” A man in his prime came close to Vulture, his eyes were sharp as eagle and exuded the aura that make Vulture look a baby in front of tiger.

“Brother Minoh! I don’t like to be bothered before fight! So please!”

“I know! I know! Just go and fight… heard you brutalized a kid in the arena yesterday, you need to hold back sometimes!”

“I thought he will give up.. But that guy kept standing back up. It’s not my mistake that his body was broken, he need to blame himself for that.”

Minoh looked at Vulture an understanding in his eyes. “But you need to lay off from the circuit for a while, your exams are at the corner, and heard you are taking part in the hunter competition?”

Vulture sighed, he didn’t liked to be pestered but considering the man in front of him an elder he answered.” My father said that all I need to do is reach the Hunter stage, and the left will be worked by him.”

Minoh felt a little jealous at Vulture’s answer. He was just going to continue with his talk but.

“Mr. Vulture your fight’s next! A new competitor came again this time!”

Minoh gazed at Vulture again and continued. “Spare this one! “

Vulture only nodded, he got up and exiting the room reached the stage.

Looking at his opponent’s haggard state and an odd monkey mask on his face, Vulture for the first time wanted to laugh. I don’t know if he’s trying to be funny or just his fashion sense twisted.

*

Shit!!”HuH!!!!” I never considered other people to be strong beside Vulture in the primary fights as well. Damn! One of them broke my rib. SHIT!!

Sura was breathing heavily while staring at Vulture, his body was in much worse state than the last time he fought, but he was also stronger than before.

As the fight began, SUra ignored the pain he felt and kicked in front of him, his body flew in the air and arrived at the place where Vulture’s body used to be.

Not again. Sura.

He feels familiar! Vulture.

It was the repeat of the last time, all of Sura’s attacks were counterattacked wonderfully, but this time he can see Vulture’s attack coming at him and if he can see them, then he can defend a little too.

But even after he tried to defend, his body was hit multiple times.

This Vulture guy is a monster!.. as before reaching the hunter stage everyone is equal, only the skill is different.

His body was hit from all the sides and even his face was not left alone making him bleed through his nose. But as is face was covered with mask, no one can see it.

This guy fight the same way that Shameless guy fought… but they can’t be the same person! According to Vulture, the condition that he had left Shameless in was enough to put him in hospital for months.

But the more he fought, the more he thought that Toilet Monkey was same person as Shameless Sutra.

Even the naming sense is horribly same!

Vulture kept beating him, but the more he fought the more he felt his opponent improving by the second.

His fighting style is very cramped, as if he is trying to not do something!... this guy looking down on me? Vulture felt himself being mocked, but it didn’t stop him from beating the hell out of Sura.

Vulture threw a punch on Sura’s face, breaking his 2 teeth in the process and throwing him down on the floor.

My precious teeth!! The taste of iron spread throughout Sura’s mouth, but he stood back up again and started to look at Vulture’s feet instead of his body.

Sura thought if he can predict where his next position will be, he may be able to attack.

He kept watching for an opening, he can see more clearly than yesterday, the attacks seemed slower but his body still couldn’t dodge them at time.

His body was learning every attack it was dealt with, it was slowly getting used to Vulture’s movements and footwork.

I will at least punch him in the face before going down! Omph!

4 of his bones are already broken, but considering yesterday, he was in a much better shape than yesterday and this made Vulture reconsider his opinion of him.

Vulture was getting fed up or to say, he was getting restless, his opponent was advancing at a rapid speed and it was getting harder for Vulture to continue keeping his superiority.

Vulture was just going to knock Sura out with the usual slam, but before he knew it, he was hit on the shoulder.

This asshole!

Vulture stopped the next punch coming at him and holding the hand he threw Sura in the air

*bang!

“This guys landed a punch on Vulture… he is dead for sure!” commented a person standing in the spectator area.

Vulture went close to the fallen Sura and kicked his body hard throwing him off the arena.

“Just stay there!!”

Vulture won by default easily, the fight was not even 10 mins long, but Sura already has his 4 bones broken, and if remembering the kick, he felt some more of his bones broke.

“The winner is Vulture!”

Vulture got off the stage and went back to the waiting area fuming in anger.

His pride was hurt.

*

Getting back in his room, Sura put his finger in his mouth to feel the 2 empty places where his teeth used to be.

“I may have made another big mistake… but I still got 1700 credits again!”

Remembering the last time, Sura took out canned meat and ate it like previously.

He didn’t waste any time before going to bed again.

Maybe… I will grow new teeth tomorrow!