"Drip, drip~"
Drops of blood scattered across the floor with soft patters. Dong You and Ding Xueyi stood utterly stunned.
Dong You most of all. He had been a model student for over ten years, and the most violent thing he had ever seen was a fight between hooligans outside the school gates. He had never gotten into a serious fight himself. Now he had watched Huang Tian tear the bat-man in half with his own eyes. The shock was overwhelming.
Ding Xueyi, meanwhile, was stunned by Huang Tian's words. From "The flesh holds divine power—why remake it with machines?" she knew he had no prosthetic enhancements. He was no Modified Human, but a martial artist through and through!
"Mr. Huang, are you—a master fighter?" Her eyes shone with excitement.
Master fighter was an honorific for martial artists who had trained their skills to the utmost. Their strength far surpassed that of ordinary people, and they could clash head-on with partially Modified Humans. They were the limit of the human body!
But that was as far as it went. Against fully Modified Humans, master fighters were still flesh and blood, powerless to resist.
That did not stop every faction from respecting master fighters. Even Modified Humans of tremendous strength needed to learn combat techniques from them.
"A master fighter? More or less." Huang Tian gave a slight nod.
Ding Xueyi grew even more excited. Her family ran a martial arts hall, and she had trained for several years herself. She knew how resolute and strong-willed someone had to be to master martial arts in this age of flourishing technology. Without a burning love for the Martial Path, it was impossible!
Of course, precisely because these master fighters focused so intensely on their own bodies, they resisted prosthetic enhancement. Otherwise, with