Superalloy Darkshine's entrance sent parts of the audience into a frenzy. The referee had to halt the match, and play resumed only after Vought International staff helped restore order.
Superalloy Darkshine's opponent in this match was a man called Big Hammerhead.
He wasn't called Big Hammerhead because his head looked like a hammer.
His body was built differently from an ordinary person's. After he used Compound V, it had mutated to some degree.
Compound V could cause mutations in part or all of the body, and that was hardly rare. Anyone who chose to inject it had accepted the risk.
After all, to people like them, such changes were a small price to pay for absolute power.
Big Hammerhead had a tail over a meter long and thicker than his arm. At its tip was a fleshy lump about the size of a volleyball.
The lump worked like the weight of a flail, making it one of his deadliest weapons.
But the lump wasn't what made his tail so dangerous.
His entire tail was covered in dense, silver-glinting spikes.
The spikes had an unmistakable metallic sheen, yet they hadn't been implanted. Their roots were anchored firmly in his tailbone. They had grown naturally from his tail.
A human body growing steel spikes defied common sense. But with Espers everywhere these days, it was hardly the strangest thing anyone had seen.
His opponent had received a thunderous welcome while he himself had been all but ignored. Naturally, Big Hammerhead wasn't pleased.
He was fairly well-known in his own division, and he couldn't understand why the muscle-bound oaf before him was so popular.
Big Hammerhead had received the match schedule in advance, so he had looked into Superalloy Darkshine.
In his view, Superalloy Darkshine had beaten his opponents in the divisional matches