“Strength improvement gets harder the further one progresses.” Luo Feng pondered. “From 23.8 metres per second to 25 metres per second might take a full year. As for fist strength increasing from 809 kilograms to 900 kilograms, it will probably take even longer. To obtain the warrior title, I estimate it will have to wait until after I enter university.”
“If, if I could faint once more. My physical fitness would probably reach the requirements for a warrior.”
Of course, the fainting he wanted was not from being beaten unconscious. It was from his headache reaching the limit and causing him to faint.
Luo Feng suffered from headaches.
Every day there would occasionally be a bout of headache, but he could endure it and it would pass. When the headache reached the limit, he would faint.
From childhood to now, Luo Feng had fainted a total of two times.
When he was eight years old, his younger brother had his leg crushed by a car. That time Luo Feng was overcome with grief. He suddenly felt extreme head pain, and his heartbeat also became astonishingly fast. The blood flow speed in his whole body reached a terrifying level. He felt as if his heart would jump out of his chest. He could not endure it and fainted directly.
Then when he was twelve years old, his mother fell seriously ill and was hospitalised. Luo Feng, terrified of losing his mother, became extremely panicked. He again suffered terrible headaches and an astonishingly fast heartbeat, fainting once more.
After the two fainting episodes, his family had taken Luo Feng to the hospital for checks, but they could find nothing wrong. After all, even now the brain remained a difficult problem in medicine.
“However, those two fainting episodes strangely improved my physical fitness by a large margin.” Luo Feng felt great anticipation. “At eight and twelve years old, after waking from those two fainting episodes, my strength, speed and neural reactions clearly became much stronger. This allowed me, at just sixteen years old when I first entered the martial arts hall, to directly pass the intermediate student assessment and obtain the intermediate student title. Precisely because of this solid foundation, at seventeen years old I obtained the advanced student title.”
“If I can faint once more, my strength will definitely leap forward again.”
Fainting was actually the body’s self protection and was not entirely a bad thing.
Luo Feng had suffered from headaches since childhood, but after the first fainting at eight years old, he discovered that each headache became much lighter. After the second fainting at twelve years old, the headaches became lighter once more.
“Following this trend, if I can faint once more, the headache condition should lighten again. After fainting once or twice, perhaps the headache illness will disappear forever.” Luo Feng felt strong desire in his heart. After all, each fainting reduced his headache symptoms, and his physical fitness would also make a leap.
Unfortunately…
Fainting was not something that could happen just because he wanted it. From childhood to now, it had only occurred twice.
“When the headache reaches the limit, the heartbeat speed also reaches the limit.”
Luo Feng looked down at the watch on his wrist. It was a watch with a pulse testing function.
“Yet even with extreme running, my heartbeat does not exceed 120 beats per minute.” Luo Feng looked at the watch. “If my heartbeat could reach over two hundred beats per minute, that would be great.” The sign before fainting was extreme head pain and extremely fast heartbeat.
Unfortunately, no matter how intense the exercise, his heartbeat speed could not reach the level that would cause a headache induced faint.
In the training hall, Yang Wu with the knife scar on his face stood in front of the fist strength testing machine. He did not build up power seriously but casually struck the punching target fiercely with left and right fists. Bang, bang, bang. A series of low punching sounds rang out. On the screen of the fist strength testing machine, a string of numbers flowed past, 956kg, 912kg, 936kg, 981kg…
Yang Wu threw dozens of punches in one go before stopping.
Luo Feng watching from the side could not help feeling a burst of envy. His full power punch was only 809 kilograms. If he punched continuously and rapidly like Brother Yang, it would already be good if each punch could exceed seven hundred kilograms.
“Brother Yang, if one day my full power punch can have the strength of your casual punch, that would be great.” Luo Feng smiled from the side.
“You kid.” Yang Wu walked over, smiled and patted Luo Feng on the shoulder. “You are only nineteen this year, just eighteen years old. When I was your age, I was still only an intermediate student at the martial arts hall. At your rate of progress, in no more than two years you will definitely reach the physical fitness requirements of a warrior. Tsk tsk, a twenty year old warrior, it really makes people jealous.”
Luo Feng smiled.
The martial arts hall recruited students from sixteen to thirty years old because this stage had the fastest growth. The earlier one could enter the warrior ranks, the stronger one would become in the future. Last year at seventeen years old he became an advanced student at the martial arts hall. It indeed made many people envious.
“Right, Madman, you are about to take the university entrance exam, right? What do you plan to do after the exam?” Yang Wu smiled.
“I plan to apply for military academy.” Luo Feng smiled slightly. “Students admitted to ordinary military academies become basic officers in regular troops after graduation. As for me, after graduation entering some special forces should not be a problem.”
“Oh.”
Yang Wu curled his lip after listening. “Military academy is good, but I feel it restricts personal freedom. After you graduate from military academy and enter special forces, you naturally have to obey military rules in the army. I cannot stand it anyway. It is better to be a free warrior.”
“Being a free warrior is good.” Luo Feng shook his head. “But I do not want my parents to worry. Entering military academy and then the army after graduation is much higher in safety compared to a free warrior.”
Warriors generally had four paths.
The first path was joining the army and becoming a member of the military. The benefit was high safety. The state would not easily let warriors take risks, and the state would also give many benefits to the warrior’s family so that warriors had no worries.
The second path was joining a martial arts hall. The management system of martial arts halls was relatively loose, belonging to a rather relaxed group. Moreover the Limit Martial Hall was founded by the world’s number one powerhouse Hong. After becoming a warrior of the Limit Martial Hall there were many benefits, and management was loose and relatively free.
The third path was joining some group, consortium, family, or large power and so on, essentially becoming a fighter for them.
The fourth path was joining a mercenary group. This was the life and death kind, the most adventurous and also the freest.
“Joining the army is safe, but I do not want days with so little freedom.” Yang Wu shook his head. “This year I estimate I will take the quasi warrior assessment again. I should be able to pass. Once I pass, I will immediately take the warrior combat assessment this year and strive to become a warrior this year.”
Luo Feng’s eyes lit up. “Brother Yang, you are confident about passing the quasi warrior assessment?”
“Haha.” Yang Wu smiled. “The three physical tests, fist strength and neural reaction, I passed long ago. My weak point is speed. But now if I perform well I can barely reach 25 metres per second. If I work hard these days, I should pass the assessment then.”
“Brother Yang, congratulations.” Luo Feng felt happy for Brother Yang. After all Brother Yang had strived to become a warrior for many years. “Brother Yang, after you become a warrior, what do you plan to do?”
“Of course join the Limit Martial Hall.” Yang Wu smiled. “The system of the Limit Martial Hall is very loose. Moreover the hall is spread across the globe with many senior warriors, which is very beneficial for one’s development. Also I can rest when I want and go out to hunt monsters when I want. How free.”
Luo Feng nodded.
“Madman.” Yang Wu looked at Luo Feng. “You kid are very crazy deep down. I will not misjudge. I think you are very suited to the free warrior path. Joining the martial arts hall is so free. Moreover the Limit Martial Hall will also give us a lot of help.”
“I…” Luo Feng felt some hesitation.
Seeing this Yang Wu shook his head and smiled. “Madman, free warriors often walk the line between life and death and temper themselves there. It is quite dangerous. But similarly, precisely because of often fighting on the edge of life and death, strength improvement is also the fastest. Look around, the vast majority of strong warriors are free warriors.”
At night the streetlights were on.
Luo Feng, having left the Limit Martial Hall, walked alone silently on the pavement. The words Yang Wu had said to him earlier indeed had quite an influence.
“The paths suited for me actually number two.” Luo Feng thought silently in his heart. “One is entering military academy, graduating smoothly, then entering special forces. The second is becoming a warrior, joining the Limit Martial Hall, becoming a warrior under the Limit Martial Hall and freely hunting monsters.”
“Of these two paths, the first one of entering military academy has high safety and good family benefits. Even if I die in battle, the state will take good care of my family.”
“The second one of becoming a free warrior involves frequent life and death battles, fast strength improvement, and hunting monsters can also bring huge amounts of money with fast earnings. This path has danger, fast strength improvement, fast money making and freedom. The only drawback is the danger.” Luo Feng kept thinking. In fact during this year of year twelve he had often thought about this question.
“Mum and Dad only have two sons. Younger brother is already disabled. If I become a free warrior and die in life and death battles, what will Mum and Dad do for the rest of their lives?”
Younger brother needed someone to take care of him.
Mum and Dad were also getting older. If he died, what would happen to Mum and Dad?
“Better enter military academy.”
“Later when entering special forces, I can also learn military martial arts and combine it with the Limit Martial Arts I learned at the Limit Martial Hall. My strength should improve again. In the army I can still temper my strength. Moreover even if I die in battle in the army, as a warrior dying in battle the state will issue pension money to my parents every month.” Luo Feng considered from the perspective of his parents and still chose to take the military academy exam.
It was just that…
Military academy was not something Luo Feng could enter just because he wanted to. Everything depended on the university entrance exam in June.