Chapter 210: A Good Husband
All fighters were given extra time to train themselves in a designated room inside the ship’s hold. Leon had around fifty fighters who had already been actively participating in the occasional underground fighting that he had conducted on land, as a trial for the real tournament.
According to Riley, Leon had started to recruit fighters who were still children. The younger, the better. They were mostly homeless or orphaned children who were living on the streets. Zach had connected the dots and had come to the conclusion that Leon was basically the one responsible for the many missing children in their country.
’What a heinous man!’ Zach muttered inwardly with a clenched fist. He felt bad for Thea who had to endure many years to live with an evil person like Leon.
During the training, he had taken the opportunity to vaguely observe each of the fighters to check out their skills. It was easy to divide the fighters into two groups.
One group was for those who came from the unlawful world and had always been lawbreakers. These fighters were not only in it for the money. They fought because they fed on the adrenaline rush and the pure enjoyment that they felt after killing or inflicting serious injuries on others.
And the other group was for those who were like Riley, good people who had fallen as victims of their own circumstances.
It surprised him to see how good many of these fighters were at a wide variety of martial arts techniques. They were not simple thugs after all.
Even Riley had good kung fu skills. He had the speed, agility and flexibility due to his small posture."Why are you not practicing and just watching?" asked Riley, who had come to sit next to Zach to rest for a while.
In all actuality, Zach had no problems with these kind of fights at all. He had had long years of training in various forms of martial arts, such as krav maga, jiu-jitsu, taekwondo, karate, and kung fu, and had managed to master all kinds of techniques of those martial art forms. He was able to incorporate those techniques into his repertoire in one-on-one combat, both with bare hands and with melee weapons.