Stan watched the empty sky for a heartbeat before a faint smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.
'Not bad.'
He had perhaps six seconds before impact. The bone-tempering that had rewritten his skeleton the previous day had, by his best estimate, made him roughly five times more physically durable than an ordinary human.
The jade purity elixir had reinforced everything else. The qi circulating through his body now added an additional layer of shock absorption that the elixir had, in some way he did not yet fully understand, activated in his muscles.
He was as prepared for a high-altitude landing as anyone in the modern world could be with a parachute.
But he had also never actually tested this. He was, in the most literal sense, about to find out whether his current physiological baseline could survive a fall from what had to be at least two hundred feet.
'With my tempered bones and the elixir's reinforcement, I should be able to survive this... Right?' He thought as he braced.
