In response to Yuri's mockery, Bat Master replied in a hoarse voice:
"I did not apply it properly."
In the time it took to say those words, flames swept across the severely distorted right side of his body. It visibly shrank, quickly matching the lean, hard build of his left half. Even the thick layer of scales vanished.
He seemed to have returned to the Ancient Fire Sacrifice Sect master who had once made a name for himself in the Inner World through asceticism and the "Fire Manipulation Technique."
Only then did Koni and Yates realize that Bat Master's previous clash with Yuri had seemingly relied entirely on Physical Aspect abilities.
Although Bat Master was Spade 9, a sequence that itself represented great strength and balance and ranked highly, he had previously been known more for Mental Aspect powers and the shape-shifting Fire Manipulation Technique.
To match Yuri evenly with pure Physical Aspect strength, especially after losing half his body and having only nine months to heal and recover...
No matter how extraordinary Transcendental Species were, they were still flesh and blood at their core. Only even less human beings like Yuri and Mora could match such a recovery speed.
Not to mention, Bat Master had not been skilled in this area before. Who his recovery ultimately depended on was now perfectly clear.
"Tsk, tsk. Can I make an appointment for this kind of modification plan?"
Yuri was clearly very interested.
A monster freak like him, who did not care in the slightest about his own human nature, would naturally be interested in such modifications.
Everyone present knew that he truly was a man who did not value his life. Perhaps after erasing most of the traits that made him human, "death" no longer meant much to him.
Or perhaps