Bronze Tiger felt every cell in his body grow sensitive under the stimulation. Adrenaline frantically fired through his nerves, his blood surging hotly like a sea of flame and gathering in his heart. His heart pounded like a war drum, thump, thump, thump, in his ears. Even the most minute parts of his body—even his buttocks, earlobes, and little toes, where nerves were sparse—felt exceptionally sensitive and stimulated.
Everything around him—the night, the faint dust drifting through the air—was clearly visible to his tiger-like eyes beneath the high beams. His pupils held a hint of ferocious crimson alongside sharp vision.
The distinctive murky, decaying stench of the Lower City entered his nostrils.
A trace of icy chill hung in the air, perceived by his sensitive skin.
The adrenaline pushed Bronze Tiger to the Human Physical Limit. His senses and strength were enhanced across the board, his dark skin taut and intimidating. He seemed to transform into a cruel beast, tempered by wind and rain and forged through countless trials in nature.
He had reached the limit—the limit beyond limits.
How powerful was the limit of human strength?
Every muscle fiber in muscle tissue could generate roughly 0.3 micronewtons of force, while every square centimeter of muscle could generate roughly 100 newtons of force, or about ten kilograms. Yet the bones of the forearm would shatter under roughly five thousand kilograms of pressure. If one assumed that the arm muscles supplied half the force, while the rest came from the legs, hips, shoulders, and so on, one would still need to mobilize the triceps and every muscle within a fifty-five-centimeter radius to achieve that level of power.
Strength limit: 5,000 kilograms!
Only through the harshest training, understanding how to use every muscle fiber in the body, controlling the force of every square centimeter of muscle, and striking in a way that best matched one's bodily rhythm and musculature, could such power be attained.
Bronze Tiger had undergone the harshest training and martial arts practice in the world. Through the stimulation of life-and-death situations, he had trained his body to the utmost limit of humanity.
"Come on!"
Bronze Tiger stepped forward. His eyes were crimson, and his dark face carried a ferocious fighting intent. Yet an ominous feeling flashed through his mind, like the sensation of knowing in advance that he would fail and die.
He did not dare let himself think further.
He moved like a tiger striking with thunderous speed, taking the initiative. His feet stamped pits into the concrete as he charged forward with the force of a speeding truck.
Alex stared intently at Bronze Tiger. He knew just how powerful Bronze Tiger was after forcing out adrenaline and controlling his body to the utmost Human Physical Limit, yet he still could not help sighing softly inside.
Bronze Tiger was very powerful. Whether in combat experience or fighting technique, he had reached a level rarely seen. In those two respects, even Alex had to admit that Bronze Tiger was far stronger than him.
Ah...
But he was facing Alex, a being who would one day evolve into a divine dragon, a myth surpassing human life.
That made Alex inwardly lament that he had no choice but to deal Bronze Tiger a blow.
Just as Bronze Tiger charged in with the fierce momentum of a truck, Alex stood immovable and towering as a mountain. He remained where he was and calmly extended his left hand. His Magnetic Psionics surged from it, forming layer upon layer of ripples in the air beneath the high beams.
In an instant, Magnetic Psionics formed countless invisible tentacles half a meter in front of Alex. They were like an invisible carpet, every fuzzy strand facing Bronze Tiger. As Bronze Tiger's fist, carrying several thousand kilograms of force, charged toward him, the Magnetic Psionics transformed into countless tentacles and rapidly rubbed against, assimilated, linked with, and connected to the magnetic field emitted by Bronze Tiger's body.
The killing move was completed almost instantly.
Physical Magnetic Psionics had overlapping compatibility with every human body.
It was magnetic psionic manipulation at the molecular level. It did not merely control one's own magnetic field; it could also affect the magnetic fields of others.
This was especially true of someone like Bronze Tiger. His powerful physique gave him an outstanding magnetic field, and since he could not control it himself, Alex could touch and control it all the more easily.
Alex knew that the emergence of this Physical Magnetic Psionics was a prerequisite, something prepared for when he evolved into a divine dragon and controlled that mythic-level body. Even so, at this stage, this Physical Magnetic Psionics was already excessively powerful. Against every human who had no way to restrain their own magnetic field, it was a sure kill.
In an instant, Bronze Tiger's body froze. His adrenaline receded, and his entire imposing aura deflated like an inflated balloon being let loose. His eyes widened in shock as he stared at his own fist in disbelief.
"Do you have some strange superpower?"
Bronze Tiger felt as though the muscles, fibers, blood, and everything else in his arm had been hooked by countless fishhooks. Alex seemed to have used countless steel-wire hooks to catch hold of his body. With the slightest movement from Alex, his muscles and bones would immediately be hooked out, separating flesh from bone in a terrifying manner.
Most terrifying of all, when Bronze Tiger's danger sense had alerted him during the attack, it had only conveyed a vague feeling that something was wrong. But after Alex completely took control of his magnetic field, it was as though Alex's power had appeared directly inside his arm. In an instant, it could execute him. Only then did Bronze Tiger's danger sense violently register the horrifying feeling that his life and death were being controlled.
"No. I have already surpassed the Human Physical Limit."
Alex shook his head and gently lowered his left hand, releasing his control over Bronze Tiger's magnetic field. The needle-and-thread-like tentacles severed their connection to Bronze Tiger's bodily magnetic field.
Physical Magnetic Psionics possessed exceptionally compatible fusion and control over the magnetic fields emitted by bodily cells.
Unless the opponent could likewise control their own magnetic field or was otherwise unusual, most ordinary people would be restrained by Alex's Physical Magnetic Psionics. No matter how powerful their fighting techniques or combat experience were, they would be of little use.
Bronze Tiger stared wide-eyed and lightly shook his arm. In that instant, he had been completely unable to retaliate. From the inside out, his arm had been invisibly controlled. The slightest unusual movement would have made it seem as though he were being torn apart. That internal sensation of control could, in an instant, hook him apart into separated flesh and bone.
"That's impossible!" Upon hearing Alex say that he had surpassed the Human Physical Limit, Bronze Tiger instinctively refuted him.
Was the Human Physical Limit so easily surpassed?
Even he, Batman, Richard Dragon, and Lady Shiva had only continually honed their fighting techniques and fine control over their bodies. Even the leader of the League of Assassins had entered the Fountain of Youth to gain an alternative form of enhancement and prolongation because of the limitations of the Human Physical Limit.
Training and one's own body alone could not surpass the Human Physical Limit.
Bronze Tiger looked at Alex with disbelief in his eyes. In an instant, he sensed that Alex's entire body was perfectly integrated, without a single flaw. His heart suddenly relaxed, and he was even pleasantly surprised.
"Is this... real? Have you surpassed the Human Physical Limit because you gained a powerful ability, or through mental control?" Bronze Tiger asked with wide eyes, driven by his exploration of the body.
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