His foot was killing him! The amount of adrenaline in his body should make him numb to the pain that came from his foot. But even with the adrenaline that was numbing a portion of the pain coming from his foot, the small amount that still reached his brain was agonizing. But he gritted his teeth and stepped on it so he could sidestep to the right.

Swish!

The flaming scimitar missed his left arm by a hair length, but the fire that was coating it, was lucky.

“AGHHH!” Rhax let out a scream, the skin on his outer left arm was burnt, it was completely black and the smell was grotesque. Blood was flowing through the cracked skin and wetting the charred skin, it was extremely tortures.

‘Wh…What the fuck is this fire? It just touched me for a milli-second and I already have a third-degree burn.’ Rhax’s mind was in chaos, he was using his muscle memories from all the fighting games he played in his life to fight. But it was fruitless, he has never used a war hammer before and it showed.

His opponent, Matthew, was a master swordsman who was trained by the Ashien church. And Rhax was only a history professor.

“Just give up, One-Eye, you killed two people while you had disadvantage. This is a great feat, but they were mere peasants who didn’t want to work and started robbing people to cover their expenses. I’m a trained knight, you can never defeat me.” Matthew declared with arrogance and might.

Rhax’s heart was beating at a speed that was starting to get painful, he tried to breathe, but the punch he received from the start of the fight, which properly cracked a rib or two, made it painful to even breathe and he had to gasp for air. “Is that supposed to make me lose spirit?” Rhax asked in between gasps.

Rhax bit down on his teeth and started to charge at Matthew, he was tired, the fight had only started a couple of seconds ago, but he was already injured and his body was screaming for him to rest.

“This is suicide!” Matthew shouted as he charged too. He slashed with the burning scimitar at Rhax’s chest. Unfortunately for Rhax, he didn’t notice the rock on his left side, his blindside.

His left foot hit the rock and he lost his balance and fell back; he was completely guardless. So, it was no shock when the slash landed successfully on Rhax’s naked chest. But it didn’t go as deep as planned. Rhax screamed in agony as the scimitar slashed him from the left shoulder to the right pelvis. The heat immediately cauterized the wound, but it also burnt the skin and blackened it.

Rhax fell down to the forest ground, his mind was starting to break from all the pain he was living. The muscles in his body were screaming, the war hammer in his right hand felt like it weighs 100 tons and not a couple of kilograms.

“Tsk, what a boring fight. You are fighting for the wrong side, but I admire your courage, state your name warrior, I will not kill you without knowing your name.” Matthew stood over him, the scimitar was raised and was ready to decapitate Rhax.

“Rh...cough..Rhax is my name. But you said something wrong, Ser.” Rhax barely spoke, his voice was small.

“What did you say? I couldn’t hear.” Matthew lowered himself to hear Rhax better. In his eyes Rhax’s body was completely useless, so there was no danger in him anymore.

Seeing his chance, Rhax moved his body, his muscles were refusing to move, but he insisted and they moved. He utilized his left foot and kicked Matthew’s left hand, the one carrying the scimitar. The scimitar flew away and Rhax moved as fast as he could and using the hammer in his right hand, swung at the still shook Matthew.

Crack!

The sound of bones cracking was heard all over the battlefield. Rhax lost all power after the blow and rendered motionless. He was looking at the standing Matthew.

Matthew was still in shock, he looked at Rhax and then looked at the caved in left side of his ribcage. He coughed and spat blood from his mouth. “You fucking honorless wimp, I curse your entire family for this dishonor.” Matthew continued to cough blood from his mouth.

Boom!

He fell down on his knees, and using his last energy, he did the Ashien Sun Sign. The moment his index and middle finger touched his eyes, his body went limp and fell down face first into the forest ground.

Rhax laid there motionless on the ground, his body was killing him, his mind was on the verge of breaking because of all the pain it was feeling. But he laughed, the laugh made his chest throb with pain. “I told you,” He spoke, his voice very small and almost a whisper, “I told you that I would cave your chest in harder than what Robert did to Rhaegar.”

Rhax’s vision was getting blurrier by the second, the woman he saved was over him, she was panicking and calling for him. But he just muttered in a weak voice. “I’m a man who keeps his word, Matthew Ziran.”

Then it went dark…...

…….

Rhax came to conscious hearing people fussing over him.

“How is he still alive?” One of them questioned.

“I agree, his injuries are fatal, and that cut on his chest is the worst, if it was just a few centimeters deeper than it would’ve killed him.” Another voice spoke.

“But why does it look like someone used a healing spell on him?” One of the voices asked.

Someone sighed and answered. “Because someone in fact did, Laurence. He saved Lady Octavia, and the Lady is a mage in training.”

Rhax was still in and out of consciousness, so the conversation didn’t really register into his brain.

He felt like sleeping, but he knew it was not that type of “sleep”, but he would wake up afterward.

So, he just gave in to his urge and allowed the calming darkness to embracing him.

…….

The next time Marcus opened his eyes, he saw the interior of his capsule. His mind was still not okay, so he laid there for a couple minutes to relax.

After around ten minutes of laying still, he finally moved, he expected the pain to come, but nothing came. It was then that his mind fully registered that he was in the real world and not in Ethea anymore.

A big smile appeared on Marcus’ face, that was the most painful and most gruesome fight he ever took part in. But he felt happiness over his victory, he finally understood why some Roman citizens entered the colosseum of their own free will. The life and death fights made the human feel complex emotions. Emotions one can never feel outside the life and death situation.

Marcus got out of his capsule and saw the time, it was still around 17:15. He decided to see how his video was doing, and even maybe post another.

He went to the bathroom and then sat down with his laptop on his sofa. He entered his account on Yowitch and clicked on the video.

His mouth hung opened when he saw the number of views it had, it was over 100 million views.

His subscribers were over 3 million, and the comments were over 300 thousand comments.

He entered the comments and saw a couple of them, they were all talking about different things.

One of the comments catched Marcus’ attention. “This dude is a savage, much respect to him. But from what I’m at now, the video has over 100 million views, I wonder how much money he got from it?”

Marcus slapped his forehead in realization, he forgot that he can make money from Yowitch. He can gain money on Yowitch by two methods, one is to upload videos and get money depending on his view count. Or get tips and donations while streaming.

And now his video has over 100 million views. With that in mind, he went directly to his personal profile and then went to the bank section. There was only a message in front of him saying.

{Would you like to dispose of the earnings into your bank account.

Earnings: 120,000$}

Rhax felt like his heart was going to stop, this was almost his income in two years. He immediately picked up his phone and called his bank.

“Hello, Mr.Ricci, how may I help you today?” His assigned manager answered.

“Hello, Clark, I just want to inform the bank that a deposit of 120,000 thousand dollars will transfer to my account in a couple of seconds.” Marcus was faking being calm, he didn’t want to sound like a poor little fellow.

Clark was always professional. “May I know how you got this money, Mr.Ricci? I’m sorry but you have to answer that, it is suspicious transaction, and you can go to prison if you don’t elaborate.”

Marcus took a breath. “Yeah, of course. I posted a video on Yowitch and it gained 100 million views, and that was the income of the video.” He explained.

Marcus heard a small, “No way!” on the phone. He was confused but then Clark spoke again. “Mr.Ricci, is it possible to tell me what was the title of the video?”

Marcus said the title and he heard exclamation from the other side of the phone. “It is really him!” Clark’s voice carried.

Marcus smiled. “Clark, have you seen my video before?”

“Seen? As in once? Try seven, Mr.Ricci.” Clark responded.

Marcus only chuckled. “Well, then be ready, a new video will be uploaded today.”

“Really?!”

“Yes, now is it all done? Can I transfer the money?” Marcus asked.

Clarck was silent and on the sound of his keyboard clicking could be heard for a couple of seconds. “All done now,” he responded, “I have taken the liberty and changed your account to an influencer account, this means that you don’t need to call us every time such a big transaction occurs.”

Marcus was happy, it was perfect. He thanked Clark, closed the phone and then clicked the yes icon.

A message popped telling him the transaction was done. He then sat down and edited the new video he was posting, he cut out all of the Ashien related stuff and Matthew’s after name. He didn’t want trouble, and if someone from the church of Ashien found the video and then reported it to their superior, then he would be hunted by the church for killing a Knight of Ash and protecting a demon.

He uploaded the video and in the title section he wrote: I just want to cut trees!! (Warning, extreme gore!)

After clicking the upload button, he relaxed on his sofa, today he made more money than what he would’ve gained in two years. He really felt the future was promising for him, and it was all thanks to Ethea.