Chapter 425 - Great power (1/2)
”Not bad....eh?” Hao Xuan mumbled satisfactorily but when he tried to move, his body wouldn't budge an inch.
”Baracus, what's going on?”
”Well, a fair few things,” he replied awkwardly, ”It seems I may have underestimated the stress using the nanotech puts on your body.”
Hao Xuan raised an eyebrow curiously, ”How so?”
”When you used that last move with 100% power, over 130 bones in your body fractured at once. Most are hairline and should be fixed within half an hour but both your legs and feet have more than 15 major fractures. Also, all the ligaments on the lower limbs were severed.”
”....”
Hao Xuan was at a complete loss for words. That was all caused by stress?
”Wait, why don't I feel anything?”
”I'm blocking your pain receptors so you don't feel any pain. Would you like me to stop?”
”.....N-No,” Hao Xuan stuttered, ”Just start the healing process. Redirect them however you want to and fix it.”
”Alright. You won't be able to move from this spot for few minutes though.”
”Yeah, I assumed as much. Go ahead,” he helplessly waved his hand with a sigh.
Seeing as the fight had finished, Henrik and company jumped down from the other side and approached him.
Henrik was covering his mouth with a handkerchief with stepping over the pieces of flesh and guts that were plastered all around the insides of the small valley.
”Well, that was....something...” he mumbled with a disgusting expression after accidentally stepping into a puddle of blood.
Hao Xuan was of course standing still, trying to move as little as possible.
”Yeah, but I overdid it a little bit and broke a few bones. Can't move until it's healed. Cover me for a while.”
”Yes yes, that's what I'm here for,” Henrik replied apathetically while trying to clean his shoes.
Fulke, Jin Wang, and Hazel were scrounging through the innards of the beast looking for something. Hao Xuan didn't bother to ask. He could feel himself getting weaker by the second as his blood essence level dropped continuously.
The nanotech were still machines and even though they could accomplish a lot of things, they still required energy for each action. And this energy came from his own blood so every time he used them, he would have to pay for it with blood, literally.
It would leave him weak and powerless after the fact so it came with its own price. Not to mention that simply using one technique with full 100% power basically turned his lower body to mush. If not for the nanotech, he would not even be able to stand.
Hao Xuan let out a helpless sigh.
”With great power comes a great cost....huh?”
He suddenly remembered the other spectators that were watching his fight and looked to the right.