Chapter 38: Ridiculous Body x Biscuit's Concealment
"Wait, what kind of ridiculous body is this?"
Biscuit couldn't help but exclaim.
Influenced by her, the Magical Beauty Lady, who had been slowly massaging Luo Lin to assess his physical condition, suddenly became rougher.
She began kneading Luo Lin's arm and thigh muscles forcefully.
"Huh?"
Luo Lin was stunned, instinctively turning his head to look at Biscuit with a strange expression.
His physical condition? Ridiculous?
"Click, click, it really is this ridiculous. Your body is simply extraordinary." Biscuit squatted beside Luo Lin, continuously marveling.
Although she wasn't physically examining him herself, Biscuit should have been able to assess Luo Lin's body through her nen beast, the Magical Beauty Lady.
"Biscuit-sensei, you're not mistaken, right? My physical condition shouldn't be that impressive!" Luo Lin couldn't help but turn to Biscuit and say.
Luo Lin believed that, with his rate of power growth and the system's level-ups, he would eventually push his physical condition to the peak of the world. But right now, he was only level one, and he hadn't even trained much. It shouldn't warrant such an outburst from Biscuit!
"Don't call me Biscuit-sensei; it's such a hassle to hear. Just call me Biscuit." Biscuit first corrected him, then added, "You really have no idea the treasure you're carrying, do you? No, it's a waste!"
"With such a perfect body, you've been training with such crude methods. If I hadn't caught this early, you'd have ruined this perfect body with that kind of training."
As Biscuit spoke, her eyes glowed as she looked at Luo Lin's body, even drooling slightly at the corners of her mouth, sending shivers down Luo Lin's spine.
Luo Lin: "…"
Wait, how is it wasted? This is my body, isn't it?
"Biscuit… hold on, you say my training is crude, fine, I'll admit that. But how could I ruin my body? I've always been careful about managing my training intensity!"
Luo Lin protested indignantly.
After all, he hadn't even forced himself into intense training to gain more experience. How could he have ruined his body?
Hearing Luo Lin's retort, Biscuit rolled her eyes at him.
"When I say you'd ruin it, I don't mean you'd break your body from overtraining. Even if you trained ten times harder, it wouldn't ruin your body."
Biscuit wasn't satisfied with the information her nen beast had gathered on Luo Lin's body and decided to get hands-on herself. While kneading him, she continued explaining.
"When I say 'ruin,' I mean the useless repetitive training you're doing would mess up your body's coordination, destroying its perfect balance."
"Perfect balance?"
Luo Lin was puzzled.
"That's when flexibility, explosiveness, coordination, endurance, muscle strength, and nerve responses are in perfect harmony, allowing every ounce of strength in your body to be fully unleashed," Biscuit explained.
Luo Lin: "…"
Though it sounded straightforward, he still didn't quite understand.
Seeing Luo Lin's reaction, Biscuit sighed in exasperation. "Just know that having a perfectly balanced body is extremely rare."
"Oh!" Luo Lin responded, lying down again to let Biscuit continue her probing.
She was mainly kneading the muscles and bones across his body, avoiding any inappropriate areas.
Seeing Luo Lin's indifferent attitude, Biscuit became even more irritated.
"You brat!" Biscuit gritted her teeth.
Back when she was training to achieve the perfect body balance, she had endured countless hardships and put in unimaginable effort. In the end, she had even transformed her body to find the ideal balance.
Yet, this kid was born with a perfectly balanced body, and his outward appearance was also so proportionate.
Even when Biscuit had glimpsed that higher realm earlier, she hadn't felt this overwhelmed with jealousy.
It took her a while to suppress the urge to leave Luo Lin to his own devices.
"Let's start, Sweetie!"
Biscuit directed the Magical Beauty Lady.
The Magical Beauty Lady didn't speak but nodded slightly. Then, nen energy appeared in her hands, gradually transforming into a layer of lotion that slowly seeped into Luo Lin's body.
As the Magical Beauty Lady worked, Luo Lin felt his whole body relax.
Though it wasn't as blissful as leveling up, it still felt as if a weight of hundreds of pounds had been lifted off his shoulders, leaving him feeling incredibly light.
"You're lucky you ran into me early on. Otherwise, if you had kept training like this, you would've needed an enormous effort to fix your body," Biscuit said from the side.
But…
Lying there, enjoying the massage, Luo Lin didn't see the increasingly astonished—no, shocked—look on Biscuit's face.
"As I thought, I didn't sense it wrong before. This kid's physical condition… it's absurdly strong." Biscuit was inwardly stunned.
Although she had been jealous to the point of madness earlier over his perfectly balanced body, the truth was, that wasn't the real reason she had initially exclaimed.
She was genuinely shocked by Luo Lin's physical condition.
It was as if his body, without undergoing any training, had already reached the peak of human potential as if it had been naturally molded that way.
"What is this kid's origin?" Biscuit wondered.
Originally, she had considered his physical condition a weakness, but after examining him herself, she realized…
This wasn't a weakness at all. This was beyond abnormal—a physical condition at the peak of human capabilities. What else could you call that but abnormal?
What puzzled Biscuit even more was how pure Luo Lin's physical condition was.
It was an unnaturally pure form of physical power, without any trace of life energy mixed in.
That wasn't natural! It wasn't even consistent with nen!
In this world, whether or not someone was a nen user, as long as they were human, they would have life energy.
And with life energy, one would inevitably grow stronger, with life energy affecting their body during training.
It was only through the combination of life energy and the body that humans, with their relatively light weight, could unleash forces of several tons, or even tens and hundreds of tons.
It was also life energy that allowed humans to train continuously, pushing their bodies to their limits.
But Luo Lin was different. His physical condition was extraordinarily strong—purely strong—without any life energy involved.
This was…
Biscuit thought for a long time before finally finding a word to describe it: a miracle!
Yes.
A miracle.
It was as if Luo Lin had achieved the peak of human physical strength without any involvement of life energy.
Only after attaining that peak had life energy appeared in his body and started merging with it.
If Biscuit weren't an expert at hiding her emotions, she wouldn't have been able to keep her face under control at this point.
"Once this kid learns nen, he'll probably grow to the peak at a speed I can't even imagine!" Biscuit suddenly had this thought.
After all, once someone learned nen, the rate at which life energy merged with the body would shift from passive nourishment to active combination.
Even for an ordinary person, learning nen would result in a massive leap in physical ability. As for Luo Lin…
It probably wouldn't take long before his physical condition alone could rival hers. And if you added in his potential…
"At that point, this kid could even go toe-to-toe with that monster old man!" Biscuit suddenly felt as though she were dreaming.
Just moments ago, she had been wondering how much effort it would take to polish this raw gem. But in the blink of an eye, she realized that this gem was only covered by an impossibly thin layer of stone.
With just a bit of polishing, it would reveal itself as a world-shattering treasure.
"Monster brat, a monster even more monstrous than that old man!" Biscuit silently cursed as she gazed at the blissfully relaxed Luo Lin.