After some time for preparation, finally the two groups moved to another location. This terrace certainly had a beautiful view but it was not large enough to be set as a battle arena. The two groups of more than one hundred people moved to an open area next to the hotel. The vast ground was about twice the size of a basketball court surrounded by ornamental trees. This area was usually used as an outdoor wedding venue. After each of them took a face to face positions, the two groups finally began sending the first fighter."Admiral do you need any special rules in this battle?"
"Mr. Alex, I don"t think there are many rules, but since this is only a friendly match, I think both of us should try our best to prevent each of us from killing or getting someone injured permanently, and as usual from 5 matches, the group that wins 3 times means they win this round."
"Alright ... I absolutely agree ...."
The first round were going to start start soon. From Alex"s side, the fighter who was sent as an emissary was Oscar. He was one of the twins that in Alex"s previous life was known as The Lightning twin. Although Oscar and Oliver were still 19 years old, they were not ordinary fighters. They were spirit enhancers with special lightning elements. They also had gained a lot of experience following Alex over the past 3 months. Alex also wanted to see how much they made progress.
Oscar came forth with the weapon of his choice as usual, a sword and began to swing it to demonstrate his ability in using it. On the other hand a special force who was part of the Delta force with nearly 2 meters tall, muscular body moved forward to represent the United States. This special soldier was unarmed, yet a dagger was still tied to his waist. He began to demonstrate his martial arts movement.
Oscar was suddenly a bit annoyed
"Hey you .. draw your weapon."
"Fighting against a kid like you, I can just do it bare hands."
Oscar felt disdained, seeing the previous compet.i.tion where this soldier was very good at shooting, He was beyond a shadow of a doubt that that person"s martial arts skill was mediocre. Oscar is even a spirit enhancer, he was capable of moving faster and had reflexes beyond other fighters. In his heart he increasingly felt he would give some lessons to this foreigner to stop looking down on Asians.
The situation became increasingly stirring when both teams were cheering for their fighters to win.
"The fight starts!"
Oscar was impatient and immediately went forward to attack by swinging his sword vertically right above the delta warrior"s head.
Whooss.h.!.+
The speed of Oscar"s sword strike was off the chart compared to the other mortal realm top fighter and this was startling the soldier. However the soldier quickly turned around and dodged the attack. Oscar"s attack didn"t stop there, he immediately proceeded with a horizontal slash.
Whoos.h.!.+
Calculating the speed of the Oscar"s attack, the soldier felt that he was unable to dodge perfectly. He immediately regretted his previous arrogance. But this soldier is a special forces veteran soldier. He immediately pulled out the dagger on his waist and used the dagger to fend off the Oscar"s sword.
Clank!!
That dagger was a small one, less than 20 centimeters in size. However, it was precisely fending off the hard and fast slashes from Oscar. What a great fighter. But the soldier"s next actions quite shocked all the spectators.
The soldier did not retreat, but quickly moved closer to Oscar instead. He found Oscar off guard before he knew it, three straight attacks struck Oscar"s body in one fell swoop. A straight punch directly hit Oscar"s neck.
THUMP!!!
One direct punch hit precisely in the vital area of the neck immediately made Oscar in great pain and panic, he did not have time to think of attacking back with his condition. Suddenly ....
THUMP!!
Oscar missed a blow right in the middle of his nose ... His nose bled immediately ... Oscar took a few step back and ....
THUMP!!
One uppercut hit right on his chin and Oscar was thrown 3 meters back like a kite flying as its thread was cut off and immediately fell to the floor ... Before he tried to get up, the soldier had hit him and put his dagger on Oscar"s neck ....
Oscar was defeated!
Upon seeing this battle, Farell the smart officer was astonished.
"Wow! Very good moves!"
"Yes, it is actually a simple attack but it is very effective when it was used by veteran warriors like him ... There is no useless and direct movement to the critical area ... Great ... Great ...."
"Looks like it"s Krav Maga"s martial arts"
"Yes, that"s right, Krav Maga, a martial art that is quite commonly used actually."
James Randall, the billionaire came along.
"I thought Krav maga is just a kind of fitness cla.s.s ... Haha."
"Yes, it is very common self-defense technique from Israel. It is easy to learn but difficult to master. Oscar went down in defeat because he lacked experience. This is a good lesson for him."
The Soldiers and team from the United States proudly shouted and cheered from winning the first match.
The next round, Oliver wanted to come forward to avenge his twin brother on the US soldier for taking him down. But a certain man held him back. A middle-aged man with a muscular body was very eager to try competing abilities with this delta force special forces. This man felt that he had no less experience and technique, he was the captain of the most elite troops in Indonesia. Captain Donnie from the Deadsquad army and the squad leader of the tiger unit,
Donnie came forth as the second fighter.
Delta Force soldier against Deadsquad soldier, who would win the battle ....
Donnie currently was used to wield large axes to fight monsters and zombies, but for this match, he decided to fight without any weapons. The second soldier chosen from the Delta forces seemed wanted to fight with his bare hands as well. These two men slowly moved forward to the middle of the field, shaking hands and paying mutual respect.
"The second round of battle starts!"
The two fighters began to present their own martial stance. Donnie as a captain and instructor of the special forces Deathsquad had mastered a lot of martial arts, but the technique that was exhibited at the day was a combination of pencak silat and merpati putih [pencak silat and merpati putih are some of indonesian martial art] martial arts. It seems like now Donnie wanted to use special Indonesian-created martial arts to fight these foreign fighters.
Both fighters were experienced veterans and they had both reached the highest stage of the mortal realm. Their physical strengths were on the same level, this battle was a completely battle between technique and experience.
THUMP!! THUMP!! THUMP!!
Punches, various insistent kicks, these two men seemed had no desire to give up. Pencak silat martial arts attacks besides punches and kicks were also focused on sweeping and clipping movements. A technique of taking the enemy down by attacking their stance, which is kicking by sweeping or pinning the enemy"s feet, so that the enemy loses their balance and falls helpless. However, Donnie succeeded in bringing down his enemy for many times, yet he failed to lay the finis.h.i.+ng moves. The martial techniques used by the Delta forces always changed according to conditions. Karate, Judo, Ju Jitsu and this made Donnie overwhelmed.
Unlike the other special forces, Delta Force was not just soldiers who was good at shooting or fighting. Delta forces received extensive specialized training, aside from shooting, explosives exercises, and the one that made them different was espionage-related skills. Delta forces troops were arguably not only as the most powerful soldier, they might be the smartest as well. That was why they were known not as soldier but operators instead.
After more than ten minutes of fighting, their build and body began to hurt. Captain Donnie had to admit the rival"s martial arts techniques were better than his. And he finally admitted his defeat. The soldier, Donnie"s opponent, acknowledged that Donnie was not weaker than him, it"s only that this opponent had insisted on using the same technique.
The second round ended with defeat on Alex"s side.
Admiral Gerald laughed loudly, proud of his men. He looked at Alex and wanted to tease him, but to his surprise, Alex casually sipped his coffee. Alex just sat up straight with a slight smile on his face.
At first Alex only enjoyed the match and didn"t think too much about the outcome of the match, but seeing the disappointment and depressed feeling from his troops, he began to be motivated to win.
"Mr. Alex, the position now is 2-0, I wonder who you would choose next?"
Alex looked in the direction of the special forces. Alex was believed that all his special unit members would be prepared to face the challenge, but most of them were not sure they would be able to win the match. They were afraid they would make their nation lose their face ....
Alex thought to himself, how come a friendly match turned out to become a battle of national tournament as if it were an Olympic Games ....
If Alex wanted to win, he had to send his strongest warrior, Colonel Arief, for example, a spirit enhancer from the Regent. Alex was confident that no one had any competencies to beat him. There are also fire enhancer spirit fighters, like Rama, who also very strong in such one on one battles. When Alex looked at each of their faces, he felt that they were all too serious about this match.
Suddenly there was one person who bravely approached Alex ....
"Alex!! None of these guys are brave enough ... Let me do this ...."
This woman always made him out of his mind ....
#!!
Before Alex said anything, Theo immediately pulled Cindy back so she wouldn"t cause trouble.
Actually it might be interesting if Cindy took the stage. Not only she was a woman, she was not an Indonesian either. To be exact, she was a citizen of the United States.. Alex thought that maybe it would break the ice and reduce the tense ... After being lost in contemplation, Alex felt certain that Cindy had a low possibility to win the battle. It was lower than the possibility of a novelist wrote 10,000 words a day.
Alex was also quite worried about losing the battle because making a wrong decision could make them question his ability as a leader ... Actually a person who was not an Indonesian might not be a bad idea.
"Aha!"
A name immediately appeared in his mind.
Lieutenant Winter!
A former special member of the United States Navy Seals. The nickname from his unit was LT, it stood for Lieutenant, his last position when he was in the United States Army. A mission in Africa 5 years ago made him and all of his group members resigned from the military together and joined the private sector. Then it came to a moment when he met a billionaire, James Randal, 4 years ago and has become one of his men.
Alex had seen Winter"s expertise in fighting back then in Surabaya, and Alex was convinced that Winter was also a spirit enhancer. His skill broke through the chart of mortal rank. It was likely that Winter could win this battle. But since Winter was James"s bodyguard, he could not order Winter arbitrarily and asked James for permission first.
"So James, do you think Winter would give it a shot?"
"Alex, are you out of your mind? Why don"t you pick an Indonesian?"
"Yes, I have my reasons." Alex glanced at Winter, "So, do you dare to go?"
James interrupted Alex"s words
"Come on Alex, don"t be ridiculous, pick the other one ...."
Before James Randal finished his words, Winter spoke
"I"m sorry Mr. Randall, if you don"t mind ... I would like to try my hand at this."
"Great!!"
Alex immediately agreed to it, making James lost for words. Alex was quite relieved that Winter accepted this challenge, it was because whether Alex had saved Winter"s life once he had his own personal reasons. But Alex believed that Winter would try his best.
When Winter came forth the center of the field, all the audience was silent, no one thought that non-Indonesian people were chosen by Alex. Almost each of everyone on the field was dumbfounded. What was on Alex"s mind? why did he send an Americans to fight in this deciding match?
Admiral Gerard was quite confused by Alex"s choice. Aan African American soldier approached to whisper something that shocked the admiral.
"You .. what"s your name, Soldier?"
"My name is Winter, and I am not a soldier."
"I know you are a former Navy Seal, you know there is a word: Once a navy always a navy."
Winter looked at the admiral then saluted him then he answered.
"There"s also a navy saying, nothing lasts forever."
Admiral Gerard was increasingly interested in seeing the figure of a man named Winter "Very good soldier" he then looked towards Alex.
"Mr. Alex I"m very curious, why did you pick an American instead of Indonesian?"
Alex answered with a smile, "I have my own reasons, Admiral, I think I will explain this later, let"s enjoy this fight first."
"Great." The admiral felt Alex was a very unique person.
Not long after, a Delta soldier came down to represent the Americans, this person was the man who whispered to the admiral before. And it looked like his face was familiar to Winter.
"h.e.l.lo Winter," said the soldier.
Winter ignored the soldier"s words, but only stared into his eyes trying to remember his face.
The soldier was with Winter back then at Navy Seals. He remembered how Winter had always been the best in their cla.s.s. Firearms, sparring, everything, he could never compete Winter. It was until the day that Winter resigned from the Navy out of the blue.
"I don"t know what you had gone through during that mission, but I will prove that quitting the military was such a big mistake. After you quit the navy, I was accepted as a Delta member. This time I am confident that I can defeat you."
Winter looked to this man indifferently. This man"s face was familiar, but he couldn"t recall anything.
"Sorry i don"t remember.. Are we going to fight here or do you only want to have a chit-chat with me?"
At the moment, James"s chief bodyguard was wearing a black suit as custom when on duty. This outfit was not suitable for fighting. Winter took it off slowly. There were many wounds on his body from all the previous battles when he was still a soldier back then. He was a real veteran. There was one big wound in his abdomen, the wound he got in the war against black zombies. No one would survive such injuries. If it wasn"t for Alex"s magic seruml, he wouldn"t have survived that day.
"You don"t remember ...." The soldier clenched his fist— "I"ll make you do!"
He shouted as he ran to attack Winter.
The third fight begins.