Martial Arts Worlds

The snow was now knee-high.

No one was running, and they were just walking, pushing their feet through the snow and creating deep footprints with each step.

At the front, Sun Jupiter was the first one to finish the ten-kilometer run, and the snow strangely ended at the end of the road.

"My shoes are full of snow!"

He said in annoyance, and shook his legs—the snow fell off in chunks.

At that moment, Seo Donghae also finished the run, panted rather heavily, and looked ahead at the balancing beam.

It was hovering over the crevice that looked dark and deep—the balancing beam wasn't that narrow and had enough space for two people to walk side-by-side.

But of course, they would most likely push each other off if they attempted to do that.

Without waiting, Sun Jupiter entered the balancing beam and started running across it—Seo Donghae followed closely behind.

However, his eyes were narrowed, and he was looking at the doings of Sun Jupiter—he intentionally stayed behind in the running obstacle so that Sun would do the balancing beam first.

The balancing beam was still a mystery, and no one really knew what to expect, so it was a hard place to go at first.

"…"

Sun kept looking side-to-side—but he was already halfway through—and his shoulders relaxed.

It didn't look like there was anything special about this balancing beam obstacle, and at the back of the beam, more people entered it.

It soon had about ten people running, so the balancing beam started to shake and sway with the weight of all the runners.

It still wasn't bad enough to stop running.

"Huh…?"

Sun looked to the air, and a shadow fell towards him—he stopped moving—and the figure landed right in front of him.

When the figure straightened his back, he looked straight into Sun's eyes with a cold, emotionless gaze—it was the same face!

Doppelgänger!

'It's another Sun? So this obstacle is about fighting a doppelgänger of yourself?'

Seo Donghae thought, but since Sun had now stopped, it started to get quite crowded, and people started pushing each other.

"What are you doing at the front? Fucking move!"

Frown Man shouted while Prince Leonida tried to push him off the balancing beam—he'd been the pain of his existence ever since the start of the event.

In the running phase, Prince Leonida kept trying to trip him, hurt his ankles, and just kept pushing—when they entered the balancing beam, he'd been trying to push him off.

"…Tch!"

Sun clicked his tongue and punched towards his doppelgänger with a burning fist—it got blocked by the doppelgänger's elbow—and he responded with a front kick.

Smack!

Sun elbowed the kick and rained burning jabs—the air started to burn—and the doppelgänger responded with his own jabs.

The fists smashed into each other—it was as if Sun was fighting against his mirror—they were doing the exact same moves.

The elbows, jabs, and kicks—the essence of their fighting styles were indistinguishable.

"…"

At that moment, Seo reached towards Sun's shoulder and pushed him forward—it made his eyes widen—and the doppelgänger punched Sun right in the face.

Sun stumbled to the side of the beam, and Seo's kick headed straight to him, but he flipped over the kick, planting his feet firmly on the beam.

"Is that how you want to play, Donghae? Very well, no one will move forward then!"

Sun said with a scream.

"You're being too slow!"

Seo said, then leaped over Sun and his doppelgänger—he landed ahead of them—and started running towards the end.

He left the balancing beam without meeting with his doppelgänger!

'The one who enters the balancing beam will only have their doppelgänger appear? So, if I don't defeat this, others will have to fight it…'

Sun thought, smirked like an evil mastermind, and ran past the doppelgänger—it tried stopping him and chased after him.

However, Sun left the balancing beam, and the doppelgänger stopped in its tracks—it couldn't leave the beam—and thus, it turned towards the other representatives.

An evil glint in its eye.

At the start of the balancing beam, Kiernan entered the balancing beam and looked towards the large screen.

[65. Kiernan Hunter]

'I sure dropped places. What's this obstacle all about?'

Kiernan looked ahead, and it was so crowded—the people at the front were fighting a doppelgänger—and the leading duo was getting so far ahead.

People were getting very frustrated.

"Just throw the doppelgänger off the fucking beam!"

Jason Arcanielago shouted.

"Shit…"

Zeus frowned at the people in the front—the ones ahead of him were top 20-25 in the total rankings, but since they were fast runners, they were able to pass him.

Thus, Zeus was in 8th place at the moment, but he wanted to stay together with the brothers either way, so he didn't bother to run after Sun and Seo.

Getting tired of waiting, Zeus pushed the person ahead of him off the beam and did the same to the next person ahead of him.

"Aaaargh, you bastard!"

"Zeus, you're dead!"

Zeus appeared in front of the doppelgänger and punched him in the chest—the power of the fist smashed through its body and exited through the back.

"In the end, doppelgänger is all you are!"

He said, and the doppelgänger got pushed off the beam—it fell down the crevice and slowly vanished.

Zeus ran ahead, the two brothers followed after him, and when others wanted to follow, another doppelgänger fell from the sky.

It landed in front of the rest of the pack, and this time, the doppelgänger was Zeus Abracadabra himself!

"It's Zeus's doppelgänger this time around!"

"Yeah… but it is just a doppelgänger, so it must be weaker!"

Kiernan looked and saw how slow the line was going—it was soon going to be impossible to catch up to the top ten.

"Well…"

He looked down the balancing beam—the dark pit stared back at him—and he took a deep breath, then jumped off.

"?!"

The person behind him looked with wide eyes, looked down where he jumped down, and then saw a pair of hands grabbing the bottom of the balancing beam.

Kiernan was hanging from the bottom of the balancing beam and was making his way forward below everyone else!