From Bullets To Billions novel Chapter 468

Chapter 468: You are a U

Joe’s special trait , the thing that made him superhuman , was super healing.

He was the first to realize it, and he realized it quickly. The others figured it out soon after, but Joe understood it immediately because of everything he’d put his body through during training.

Back when he fought Aron , the moment when he finally unlocked the power of the Vow , Joe had been in a terrible state. Out of everyone, he had been the most injured. Aron’s attacks weren’t random or shallow. They were meant to terrify Joe, to make him break from the inside out.

Aron had stabbed him several times. The wounds had cut deep, deeper than they should have for someone still able to move afterward.

Normally, wounds like that would take far longer than a week to heal. Even with medical attention, with rest, with luck... his body shouldn’t have recovered that fast. But Joe’s wounds had healed within days , inside the time frame where scars should have still been raw.

And now, while fighting, the same thing was happening again.

Even when hit hard , hit in ways that made the crowd wince , his body was healing, constantly repairing itself beneath the skin.

Wolf had been the first to confirm it. Through his observations, through his new ability to break people down and evaluate them, he noticed what Joe’s body was doing.

It made Wolf wonder why their powers had awakened the way they had.

Was Joe’s trait tied to the extreme situation he unlocked the Vow in?

When he had been stabbed repeatedly , was his body screaming for a way to survive?

Had it responded by tearing open a limit that had always existed inside him?

Joe had always excelled in endurance. All the running, all the training, all the days he pushed himself until he collapsed , maybe his body naturally leaned toward survival.

Maybe the Vow didn’t "grant" powers , maybe it simply revealed a hidden potential lying inside them all.

Not a magical blessing.

Not a mutation.

Just the absolute peak of what a human body could become , unlocked.

Wolf didn’t know the exact truth. No one did.

But he couldn’t help wondering whether, by studying themselves, they might eventually learn how to guide the unlocking of a superhuman trait.

’Now his body can take quite a beating,’ Wolf thought, glancing over at Joe, ’but I still don’t think it’s a good idea for him to get used to getting hit like that. Maybe at some point he has to test the limits of the power... but he needs to know howto use it, not just tank everything.’

When Joe returned, several fighters walked over to him, patting him on the back or nodding at him with newfound respect. They had seen how he walked into the fight area, blood-soaked and wild-eyed, fists drenched in crimson. They didn’t know the details , but they knew he hadn’t gone down easily.

Joe dropped into a seat beside Wolf and let out a massive sigh.

"That... hurt... that really hurt..." Joe groaned, grabbing the side of his head.

Wolf snorted a laugh.

"Well, no wonder. You’re still going to feel pain," he said. "Even if you were bluffing down there, telling them it didn’t hurt... What? Were you trying to look cool?"

Joe’s face flushed bright red.

"Arghhh, shut up..." he muttered. "You know exactly what unlocked inside me. And as you said, it doesn’t really stop the pain. My body is amazing, yeah, and it can withstand it... but it still hurts."

He exhaled again, gripping his ribs gently.

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