Chapter 2 Sword Light (Happy Dragon Boat Festival!!)
"Why do you study martial arts?"
With some time left before class began, Fang Xing looked at Xia Long and began to drift into his usual daydreams, recalling the scene from their first Martial Arts class.
Back then, it was Xia Long who stood in the very same spot, his voice booming:
"You are reserve soldiers, and one day you will go to battle, fighting to the death with the Evil God's Clan... You study martial arts to survive!"
"Remember this, and train hard! Train desperately!! That's the only way you might survive!!!"
"Given your backgrounds, you are not destined to pour resources into becoming a Mecha Master or Mind Master... Martial arts require the least resources yet provide substantial future prospects, making it the best evolutionary choice for you!"
"I hope that by the time you graduate, you'll all be at least in the Second Realm of Martial Arts, mastering an A-level Martial Arts, otherwise entering the battlefield would be a death sentence—no second possibility!"
The stark, bloody reality hit Fang Xing hard and brought him back to the present.
Now, Xia Long began his lecture: "Most of the Evil God's Clan possess a sort of spiritual contamination, and even the lower-ranked servants can unleash a Spiritual Shock... Initially, the Federation's fleet and Mecha Masters suffered quite a bit, filling up the asylums to maximum capacity... But later on, we discovered that after evolving through Martial Arts, the 'Martial Arts Will' generated can fend off such mental corruption... Although it's tough for you to enter the 'Courage Realm' and attain a hint of the power of the realm by adulthood, the Federation has developed many martial arts techniques that, through hypnosis, allow lower-realm martial artists to obtain almost the same power. This is the origin of A-level Martial Arts."
Fang Xing listened below with teeth clenched.
Martial Arts! Branded within the Blue Star Federation as the evolution path that required the least resources yet had the highest output ratio, it actually represented cannon fodder!