Chapter 179 - A Fair Fight!
“Bang!”
The people could not even see how Meng Chao attacked. They only heard a dull thud that caused their skins to crawl, and Zhang Hongjie, who weighed more than one hundred kilograms, was sent flying like a sack filled with iron sand and crashed into the crowd.
Even if the onlookers had long since tensed their muscles and were prepared to be knocked into, they still felt as if a raging Demonic Halberd Pig had run into them at more than 150 km/h. Around eight military school students were sent flying, and even more staggered before they fell on their butts.
Zhang Hongjie did not slow down. He actually tore through the tent and fell on the ground outside.
A few of his friends ran out in a hurry and found him lying on the ground while vomiting as he cradled his chest. He was about to lose the last of his breakfast.
The terrifying kick caused the tent to sink into cold, dead silence.
The next moment, the student burst into a ruckus.
“Excuse me?! He managed to kick Zhang Hongjie so hard that he started vomiting?! He made it look so easy, but Zhang Hongjie has already lost his will to fight!”
“He’s so fast… It looked like he could predict the future. He saw every single one of Zhang Hongjie’s attacks.”
“Why did the Army Fist become so fierce, ruthless, and brutal in his hands? It has a completely different air when he uses it!”
“That’s the most powerful Throat-piercing Kick I’ve ever seen!”
While the students discussed among themselves, Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath. His joints let out cracking sounds, and his spirit energy flowed slowly through his 1,024 branch meridians. When they showed on his skin, they formed 1,024 shining spirit tattoos on his muscle lines.
The onlookers had never seen such a brilliant spirit tattoo on a one-star superhuman before.
It looked like an ingenious armor made of pure energy.
With just the power of Spirit Tattoo Realm, he had managed to produce the effect of Armorized Spirit Armor, which was something unique to six-star superhumans. The electricity he produced when he used the Ultimate Style did not lose to that of those who practiced the Overkill Style or the Beast Soul Style.
“Wow…”
The students knew that it was just a special effect, but appearance was very important, and in the eyes of the people, Meng Chao instantly became very mysterious and powerful.
And Meng Chao did not destroy his powerful image. He took half a step forward and shouted loudly, “Who’s next?!”
“Me!”
Another military school freshman stood up with gritted his teeth.
Even though the Army Fist was a normal martial art that could be practiced by everyone in Dragon City, it was still a martial art used by soldiers, and the military school students were supposed to be good with it.
Yet now, they were defeated by a student from Agricultural University using Army Fist, which was the greatest humiliation for the military school students.
The military school martial arts course freshman also took the stance of Army Fist. His face was stern, and he looked incredibly wary. He no longer looked derisive and playful. Clearly, he now treated Meng Chao as a rare powerful enemy.
But no matter how highly he saw Meng Chao and how much on guard he was, it was useless.
Three moves later, Meng Chao used the first attack of the Army Fist just as before, and they both executed Lunging Punch at the same time.
Both of them clearly went straight for each other’s heart, and their fists were like cannons, but the military school martial arts course freshman’s arm was stretched out slightly more than Meng Chao, so he should have hit him right on target.
But for some reason, just when his punch was about to reach the degree of a raging beast and hit Meng Chao’s chest, Meng Chao’s pectorals suddenly started trembling at high speed, and his muscle fibers moved in a strange arc, which made it seem like he had gained the arc-shaped armor of tanks, and the student’s fist just slid across his chest.
Bang!
Meng Chao’s Lunging Punch hit his opponent, and he sent the second military school student flying. He could not get up even after a long time had passed.
Meng Chao’s pectoral muscles shuddered as he stared at the military school students and roared like a tiger.
“Who else?!”
“Me!”
A military school engineering course freshman stepped forward.
In truth, the occupations famous for being dominated by boys in the military school were neither the heroic spirit course nor the Gun Fighting Style course. It wasn’t even the firearms course whose maniacs lunged around heavy machine guns, heavy anti-material sniper rifles, or rocket launchers all the time. Instead, they were the engineering and logistics courses, which were filled with built men.
The combat engineers had to drive large construction machinery weighing dozens or even hundreds of tons while they built roads and forts in the wild.
And since the interference from the Other World’s spirit energy magnetic field was very strong, the materials were incredibly unstable. The failure rate of the machines was ten times higher when compared to Earth, so they had to repair the machines all the time.
The trend for weapon design in Dragon City was big and clunky, so the core components of the large construction machines easily weighed hundreds or even thousands of kilograms. The combat engineers often did not receive a lot of help while repairing such machines and had to complete their tasks on their own. The task of disassembling the components of the large construction machines alone was enough for them to get deformed and bulky.
There was no need to even mention the logistics course. They lived in the era when railroads were easily destroyed by monsters, when there was a maximum weight that armored airships could carry, and when the failure rate of crystal-powered tanks was incredibly high. Manpower was the only effective and reliable method to provide supplies, weapons, and reinforcements.
The students in the logistics course in the military school had a nickname—camels. Those who could not carry tons of supplies with no change in their expression and move around like the wind through winding mountain roads did not have the right to be known as camels.
The powerful boys usually had to go through a lot of stamina and martial arts training. Their fighting power was not that much lower than that of the martial arts course freshman.
The military school engineering course freshman only managed to last five seconds before he was defeated. Like Zhang Hongjie, he curled up in a corner while vomiting his guts out.
“Next!”
Meng Chao’s blood had started surging because of the fights, and he did not intend to stop.
The military school’s freshmen also started burning with fighting spirit. Regardless of whether they were from the martial arts course, firearms course, logistics course, or the engineering course, all of them lined up one after another for their turn to challenge Meng Chao. They also seemed to have their minds dead set on using the most orthodox Army Fist to challenge him. After all, he defeated them using the Army Fist, so they could not use any other martial art to defeat him.
‘Even if you’re an outstanding student from Agricultural University’s martial arts course and are very strong, you have limited stamina, right? There are plenty of us, and we can definitely wear down all of your stamina!”
Challenging someone to a marathon fight did not sound good, but they were angered by Meng Chao’s arrogance, and they completely forgot about it.
But to their surprise, it seemed like Meng Chao had an endless supply of stamina. Even if he was engaged in a marathon fight, they could not do anything to him.
“What’s going on? This guy’s senses are too sharp. His hair is like a radar, and the slightest movements alert him of my actions!”
“His Army Fist is just terrifying. His speed alone is faster than mine by 15%. He perfectly exploited all my openings!”
“All my attacks bounced or slid off him. He looks like he’s wearing an armor that has oil spread all over it!”
All the military school freshmen who fought against Meng Chao had the same feeling.
They felt horrible.
Every time Meng Chao performed a side step, a lunge, a punch, or looked around, he was able to interrupt, change, or throw off their rhythm. Their breathing changed and their heartbeat did so too, which made them subconsciously reveal openings.
And the moment they revealed the slightest opening, Meng Chao exploited it to the maximum degree. Their aggressive offense was destroyed, and not one of them was able to escape.
Many of the military school students had come to watch Meng Chao make a fool of himself, but when they lay outside the tent vomiting, they found that they were the jokes.
The freshmen from Agricultural University’s martial arts course and monster controller course were dumbfounded. Spirit flames gushed out from the ruthless person before them and killing intent raged around him. He looked like a demon, and they simply could not believe that it was the same Meng Chao who had laid in ambush in the bushes and launched surprise attacks at them!
Meng Chao was someone who had put on great shows where he fought against people in Agricultural University’s martial arts course and monster controller course, but both times, he won through dirty tricks, leaving behind the impression that his strength was really nothing to look at…
“He’s clearly strong, so why did he use despicable and shameless methods in the university?”
“That’s right. He could have clearly won against us in the arena fair and square, and we would have been impressed by it. Why did he poison us, set up traps, lay in ambush, and sneak into the girls’ dorm?”
“Could it be… that he wasn’t actually forced to use those things because he wasn’t strong enough, but only did them because he was interested in it, and he was just born shameless?”
The students just could not understand it.
When they registered what was going on, Meng Chao had defeated all the military school freshmen aside from Chu Feixiong.
Even though more than half of the military school students came from the engineering course, logistics course, and commanding course, and they did not pay a lot of attention to individual combat skills, it was still an unbelievable result.
As the students looked at the military school students and their bruised faces and residue of vomit at the corners of their mouths, then at Meng Chao, whose eyes burned like magma and sparkled like stars, they could not help but be shocked.
“Whew…”
Meng Chao let out a deep breath, and it was as white as paper. Even though his stamina was drained, his muscles were torn, and each of his cells screamed, he felt elated.
Since he fought against Wu Wu in the grove, this was the first time he used the Ultimate Style and had every bit of his vitality exploited to the max during an intense fight.
Meng Chao was not being reckless by challenging and defeating all the military school freshmen who came for the exchange. It was the way he thought of to increase the interest in the Ultimate Style to the highest degree.
First of all, the students Chu Feixiong brought over were definitely not the strongest students in the military school—the ones from the heroic spirit course—but were mostly from non-fighting occupations. And even the military school’s martial arts course specialized in the Gun Fighting Style, but they were unable to use guns in this sort of exchange.
Second, Meng Chao intentionally used the Army Fist to defeat them because he was certain that they would want to defend the glory of the Red Dragon Army and would definitely use the Army Fist to fight back.
The Army Fist he used was the future version, the agglomeration of the data gathered from various people, and he knew most of the weaknesses and openings in the current Army Fist.
But forget about that for a second and remember the fact that he had already pushed his Army Fist to Perfect Level. That alone meant that the freshmen were never going to be able to compare to him, and he could counter them perfectly.
Besides, he had already cleared 1,024 of his branch meridians, and the Ultimate Style’s terrifying ability to fight extremely long battles allowed him to have full confidence in suppressing the military school students fairly and squarely!
Meng Chao’s breathing had never become labored, and his smile never faded away. “Everyone, this is the increase in stamina brought by the Ultimate Style. Next—”
“Wait, you haven’t defeated me!”
Suddenly, Chu Feixiong looked as if he had been hypnotized by some mysterious power. An honest and determined expression appeared on his face, and he stood up while staring at Meng Chao.