Barbarian's Adventure in a Fantasy World - Chapter 332: Hell (3)

... like a joke. In a land like that, the thought arose of how the barbarians had endured long enough to be called a people rather than a memory. Ketal answered without ornament.

“Barbarians are stubbornly resilient,” he said. “Ordinary wounds don’t claim us, and even deep ones heal faster than they should.”

“I know that much,” the Tower Master replied. He had studied the barbarians’ regenerative power with a scholar’s relentless curiosity. “I’ve seen one survive with a pierced hear ...