Mahavira was also a crying and screaming child.

It hurts to break the bones of your arms, it hurts to break the bridge of your nose with a punch, and it hurts to be lifted high and then fall down. When he was hit in the stomach with continuous punches, and when he vomited undigested food, tears welled up from the pain and irritation of his esophagus, which made him look extremely painful.

It hurts and aggrieved.

But I forgot what day it started...... As if the gods had answered his request, he gradually lost his "pain".

It's not that he's lost his sense of pain and touch – it's that he's beginning to ignore the pain he's suffering.

Mahavira was still aware that his body was hurt.

But no pain could affect his behavior and thinking.

He doesn't even tremble with pain.

Even if his bones were twisted by his father and gurgle, he always kept silent and his pupils did not fluctuate in the slightest. It's like a dim mirror, like a lifeless puppet.

He was no longer timid, no longer hesitant, and no longer begged for mercy. Even if he was directly twisted to dislocation, his body did not tremble in the slightest, and his eyes did not even blink.

It's like someone with the guts playing a horror game.

The Mahavira always looks down on everything from a higher perspective, and operates calmly as a "game character".

That's why Mahavira is always seriously injured.

Because he almost got hanged in training several times.

Pain is like firewood, burned by the fire of hatred and anger that grows stronger...... Rather, the pain he experienced on a daily basis was far from enough to nourish the increasingly hungry beast of anger in his heart.

More pain is needed. This level of pain was not enough for him to wake up.

If at that time, he endured more pain...... Then he wouldn't have gone down the path of a mage at all.

Because Mahavira is only one step away from awakening his own spiritual power.

His redshift is strong enough to distort his perception physiologically...... It was only because there happened to be no idle spiritual energy that matched him at that time that he did not awaken his spiritual energy.

From this point of view, the "re-creation mechanism" still played a role in the containment of demons after all.

- His willpower, his twisted heart so vigorous that it made his own heart forget his pain.

It was also from that time that Mahavira's understanding was suddenly strengthened.

He quickly learns the knowledge of fighting his father, and learns one brutal and lethal fighting skill after another. And as his spiritual affinity worsened more and more intensely, the vicious instinct that awakened from the depths of his blood was gradually changing his personality.

From that moment on, his father began to cultivate the wildness and murderous intent of the Mahavira.

He was cut off from his daily supply of food and water, along with his mother's food and medicine.

After two days in a dark room, Mahavira's father put Mahavira, weakened by lack of water, in the same iron cage as the hapless unscrupulous uncensored man who had been grabbed and his clothes removed. If he doesn't defeat him, he won't be able to leave here - and then his mother, who lost her legs and contracted tuberculosis, will starve to death.

But if he just defeats the other party, he may not have the physical strength to run back home.

The man's intentions were already obvious.

He even specifically arrested seriously ill soul-related patients whose souls were sheep. Even though Mahavira was strong and extremely good at fighting, he had not killed anyone at that time...... Not to mention the cruelty.

But after a short hesitation, the other party began to take the initiative to attack Mahavira, who was so weak that he could not stand up.

At this time, Mahavira looked like he was one meter five or six, and he had streamlined muscles. And his psychic illness makes it impossible to determine his age by looking at his face - it makes him look as if he is just a slightly shorter adult, a white cat or something, such as a ragdoll.

It's not necessarily impossible to win a fight just against a ragdoll - not to mention that the opponent is still weak to this extent!

But at that time, Mahavira was actually only seven years old.

When Mahavira endured three attacks in silence, he finally fought back.

When he opened his eyes, he just looked at the other party with his dark golden vertical pupils and let out a low roar, which frightened the other person into a state of immobility.

- That's the first person he killed.

Easy and simple, it even made him self-doubt...... Is it true that other people are such fragile, so lowly, so weak creatures?

Mahavira, who had drunk the blood of the lamb, regained some strength.

He immediately returned food and medicine to his mother.

He paid special attention to wipe the blood stains off his body with the white wool on the corpse. It's just that the young Mahavira didn't realize how terrifying those two rows of blood-stained sharp teeth looked when he smiled when he saw that his mother was safe and sound.

It was also from then on that Mahavira's father thought the time was ripe.

He put his own son in the underground ring to compete in a gimmick to show his strength and show his fairness.

His father's Jiu-Jitsu skills made it easy for him to fight enemies as immature as his own.

He was only seven years old, but his enemies were twenty years old.

Once a week, you have to go to power, and every week you have to kill a fresh living person. When those who were about his age or slightly older died in his arms one after another, Mahavira felt a sense of murderous pleasure. The spirit of the beast inside him was singing, and his movements became more and more tyrannical.

And from the second year, he wore the Knuckle Tiger as a weapon to meet the impact of the "whole age group".

Unexpectedly, he still won easily. It's even easier.

But when he won the championship, not many people cheered him on.

That's when Mahavira knew...... His father, in order to ensure his victory, invariably manipulated his enemies.

Mahavira was on the verge of rage - he fought a fierce fight with his father, and was defeated despite all his might. But after that, he also got his father's approval.

Of course, the most important thing is that the "event sponsors" in Uptown are not satisfied with the market response and demand more blood.

So from the third year onwards, he began to fight against an enemy who had never moved his hands or feet, and had even been reinforced in reverse.

And in the first game, he ran into a strong enemy.

The bones of his body were broken in multiple places, and even pierced his own lungs. Foaming at the blood, he slowly hanged his badly wounded foe in a dangerous position that could have aggravated his injuries...... So, on the verge of death, he finally received the cheers of the people again, and the title of "Strangulation".

At that moment, he felt his presence – he felt that life was so colorful.

When the injury was healed, the pale male lion fully awakened to his instincts.

He brutally hanged and killed every enemy. No matter how strong his enemies were, no matter how badly wounded, he could always fight back in the dying—the kind of desperate fight in which both sides did their best, and no one knew the outcome until the end, so that the name of the strangled nine-year-old sturdy lion man resounded through the gray and black realms of Happiness Island.

Until he reached his own adolescence.

Adolescence is the last time for the development of psychiatric disorder, and it is also the time when physical growth is the most rapid. When he was 16 years old, he became more and more powerful, and his sponsors became dissatisfied.

Because the battle gradually began to become one-sided. Even retired bodyguards who have undergone prosthetic transformation and professional training will be easily strangled and killed.

So the organizers decided to make the strangulation more difficult.

From then on, the strangulation was deprived of his fingers and chains, his only weapons. His enemies, on the other hand, began to assemble more and more terrifying weapons.

From heavy maces to razor-sharp meat knives, shields and spears to full-body prosthetic steel warriors, from quenched blades to rumbling chainsaws.

And strangulation is bare-handed.

In the first two years, the strangulation will become moribund again. Several times he almost died in the ring, which got people excited again.

But as he became more cunning and learned more and more of his opponent's fighting techniques from the ring, the weapons couldn't hurt him anymore.

- Fortunately, the market feedback changed at this time. People began to want to see videos of strangulation in the ring...... And this also prevents strangulation from being more restricted and participating in unfair battles.

Eighteen-year-old strangulation has become unprecedentedly powerful.

He was arrogant and cruel, just like his father—even more arrogant, more cruel, more cunning, more powerful than him.

He became the second-in-command in the ring and was exposed to more black realm stuff as his father's heir.

Strangulation began to cultivate its own forces...... And he finally left the dimly lit ring and went to the abandoned factory warehouse, under the watchful eyes of many cameras, in various simulated terrains, and began to face his final form of enemies.

- An unlawfully psionic person armed with a thermal weapon who has undergone a prosthetic modification.

Those experienced mercenaries.

First one, then a whole squad.

But even so, the strangulation never lost. Because the only result of failure is death.

And those people are dead.

Relying on his excellent flesh-and-blood performance, he completely surpassed all other "black boxers" in the lower city and became an irreplaceable "minced meat artist".

He got a large sum of money in an instant.

Even if he is born no-coder, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have a chip that can be used for payment. The boss of Uptown can accommodate his demands and give him access to near-infinite resources.

The first thing he did was to cure his mother of tuberculosis. Later, she was given a full-body prosthesis.

She was finally able to stand up - but the strangulation no longer required her to do tasks to feed or protect herself.

Rather, the muscle atrophy caused by lying in bed for a long time cannot be alleviated even by the innate strength of the Lingqin.

So Strangulation needed to take care of his mother instead, buying her a lot of nutritional supplements every day and helping her with resuscitation training.

It's not that he has a deep relationship with his mother......

It's better to say that Strangulation still hates her in his heart. Because he still can't accept the fact that he was born as a "pet" in a transaction.

…… However, the person closest to him was his mother.

Whenever he got something good, he had to show it off in front of her.

It's not so much about loving each other, it's about "showing your strength...... It's like the family concept of the beast.

Strangling said goodbye to the painful, poor, and dangerous life of his childhood, and became a "big man" – even if only a big man in the lower city.

The strangulation gradually begins to indulge in the thrill of depriving others of their lives...... He can't be stopped by damage and pain, just like the boss in the game who doesn't eat control. His wild fighting style and the ability to combine the strengths of a hundred schools of thought have made him no longer use the clumsy jiu-jitsu like his codename, "Strangling", as he used to do.

The weapons taken from the enemy's side immediately turned into a part of themselves. Everything in the environment can be his hands and feet.

Except for advanced firearms, he was never able to master ...... On the one hand, his fingers are too thick, and some triggers are easy to jam his fingers; Part of the reason is that he has never been able to accept the wild and focused behavior of "stop and aim" - but he can still strafe in a general direction.

But he did something wrong.

When he became nearly "invincible" in Downtown, he began to get eager to try.

He wanted to go to Uptown and see for himself, meet with the feared "Executives" for a while, and challenge them to see how powerful they really were.

(End of chapter)