Round 1 (Death of a King)

## Fight Summary

* Jean-Jacques Dessalines starts off the fight with multiple rapid slashes called **Horn of Revolution**.
* William Tell deflects **Horn of Revolution** with **Tyrannicide**.
* Jean-Jacques Dessalines charges at Tell and uses **Horn of Revolution** again impaling his sword into Tell's left arm.
* William Tell losing the use of his dominant arm retaliated with **Gessler's Death** breaking Dessalines' sword.
* William Tell then uses a weakened version of **Tyrannicide** which hits both of Dessalines' shoulders pinning him to the ground.
* Both go for a final decisive blow, **Helvetia** for Tell and **Haiti's Rise** for Dessalines.
* **Helvetia** hits first, killing Dessalines immediately.

## Fight

William Tell walked through the arena gates first, readying himself for the fight to come. Jean-Jacques Dessalines then rode through the arena gates and laughed at Tell, thinking that Tell is an easy-to-kill opponent. As he laughs, Dessalines brandished his secondary cursed artifact, **Louverture**. Tell looks down at a worn down crossbow that is revealed to be his cursed artifact, **Küssnacht**. Dessalines laughed so hard he almost passed out and got disqualified.

Dessalines got up and started off the fight by dashing toward Tell and using **Horn of Revolution**. However, Tell deflected it with a perfectly timed **Tyrannicide**. Dessalines goes in for another **Horn of Revolution** but Tell deflected it with **Tyrannicide** again. Dessalines angered by Tell deflecting his attacks used **Horn of Revolution** for the third time, this time impaling his sword into Tell's left arm, his dominant arm, and temporarily incapacitated him.

Dessalines began to taunt Tell before getting punched in the face by Tell. Tell stood up and continued to punch Dessalines. Dessalines gets knocked down by Tell as the two start trading blows. As the two clash, a battered Dessalines gains the upper hand and stabs his sword into Tell's left arm. Tell retaliated with **Gessler's Death** shattering **Louverture** angering Dessalines even more. With his secondary cursed artifact broken, Dessalines decides to end it by using his main cursed artifact, **Vertières**.

Dessalines performed **Vertières: Papillon** and lacerated Tell's torso. He then follows it up with **Vertières: Biassou** lacerating Tell's torso again. Tell looks down at his torso that now has a defined X-shaped indent that is dripping with blood. Tell retaliated and hit Dessalines over the head with **Küssnacht**. As Dessalines tried to perform a technique with **Vertières**, Tell canceled it by knocking **Vertières** out of Dessalines' hand. Dessalines picked up **Vertières** and backed away as he performed **Vertières: Jeannot** creating forces strong enough to slash Tell from afar. Tell deflects most of the slashes back at Dessalines by performing **Tyrannicide** with his punches.

Dessalines then collected all of his strength into his hands so that he can perform his ultimate, **Haiti's Rise**. Seeing that Dessalines is getting ready to perform his finishing move, Tell mustered up the strength to perform a weakened version of **Tyrannicide** to hinder Dessalines' plan. **Tyrannicide** ended up hitting both of Dessalines' shoulders and pinning him to the ground. Dessalines pulled the crossbow bolts out of his shoulders and got ready to charge at Tell, Tell also got ready to go for the final decisive blow. Tell used **Helvetia** while Dessalines used **Haiti's Rise**. A flashback then shows Tell promising **Arnold von Winkelried**, his apprentice and adoptive son, that he would win the fight. Tell then put all of his remaining energy into **Helvetia** allowing it to hit first, piercing Dessalines' heart and killing him almost instantly. But Tell didn't come out of it unscathed as his left arm was snapped clean off.

With Tell declared as the winner, he collapsed and was rushed to the Infirmary.

## Events

* The crowd cheered as the vanguard fight of Armageddon commenced.
* As the crowd is shown, many influential figures from all over the world are shown to be spectating.
* Simo Häyhä is seen analyzing Round 1, presumably to come up with strategies for his round.
* Arnold von Winkelried is seen balling his eyes out as he sees Tell, his adoptive father, consecutively get hit by Dessalines' **Vertières** techniques.
* Albrecht Gessler is seen laughing at Tell as he consecutively gets hit by Dessalines' **Vertières** techniques.
* The Three Eidgenossen (Arnold von Melchtal, Werner Stauffacher, Walter Fürst) are seen being concerned for Tell and discussing how it's near impossible for Tell to win in his current state.
* Huldrych Zwingli, Nikolaus von Flüe, Leonhard Euler, Alexandre Sabès Pétion, and Henri Christophe are seen arguing about whose attack is going to hit first.
* Arnold von Winkelried, Ueli Rotach, and the Three Eidgenossen are seen celebrating while Albrecht Gessler looked pissed.
* As Tell is declared the winner, Winkelried is seen jumping into the arena to help get Tell to the Infirmary.