While four young pathwalkers fighting -o—o-o did so with determined aggression, Ria groaned with pain, leaping away from the female homoarachnoid before her. She felt a stinging pain in her back, along with a broader throbbing pain in her, a pain that came from tension and from internal pressure.
Even as she leaped away, she could feel her movements constrained by the web fluid that the female homoarachnoid had injected into her flesh. She breathed unsteadily as she put ten meters before them, struggling to take a defensive stance as her expression grew foggy with pain. Modern Martial Artists didn't have the kind of pain tolerance that Martial Artists from before the Era of Expansion had due to the fact that they didn't have to go through the excruciating pain of the Body Evolution process.
