Chapter 95: That ship had already sailed.
The two teenagers -Flinn and Brandon, according to Victor’s info- followed Dante’s orders and helped the others sit along a nearby wall. He then ordered them to sit down as well and stood a short distance from them.
Things hadn’t gone the way he had planned. He was supposed to use this opportunity to test his upgraded Iron Fist, now called Diamond Fist, but it turned out far more lethal then he thought, and he wasn’t about to kill a bunch of kids just because they pissed him off a little.
He opened his Status screen and read through the listed stats. His strength had gone up to 6 while his durability was now 4, which confused him a little since he didn’t feel stronger or more durable. He remembered Volcan saying that the stats were an overall evaluation of his capabilities, and from the looks of it, improving even one part of his body resulted in a drastic change.
’Isn’t that, like, a 20% increase?’
[Correct.] Volcan answered. [The Diamond Fist is capable of exerting more force and is far more durable than its E grade base.]
’Right...’
The AI had created his own ranking system for bionic implants. It started with F, then E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS. The Iron Fist Dante had spent a significant sum on turned out to be nothing more than an E grade, and even after it had been reconstructed and reinforced, it only climbed up to D.
Dante wasn’t worried too much, though, since he would soon replace his entire arms with higher-quality implants. So long as he got something of a higher grade, the upgrade would lift it even further and the boost it would grant would significantly increase as well.
The only problem was that the number of upgrades each implant could go through was limited. Even if the necessary materials were available, some implants could be upgraded once or twice. To get anything of a higher grade, he would have no choice but to acquire far better implants than the base he originally had.