@ninjadork Sounds plausible. He's probably super deep in bullshido, that's why he fully expected himself to be able to break plate mail with his fists, the goddess' secret gifts made that possible.
@akomni
"its been over 8 months."
The number of months doesn't matter, it's the number of chapters that matters
"are we finally getting past the intro to this story?"
You will probably be disappointed, because I think there will only be fights against increasingly strong opponents and almost nothing between.
i dont know if this is a joke manga or an attempt at martial arts in another world.. it barely fulfils the req. for martial arts genre, since there's no explanation on the martial arts technique and the intrigue of his moves, the next thing we know is the guy already made magic 'martial arts' since he's exposed to magical elements/mana/or whatever it is in that world, and the martial arts doesn't even matter anymore since his hand chops creates molecular cutter.
I can't believe that we are still at the first battle for 8 fucking months... If it wasn't finished by next chapter then i'll hold this off until the resolution of the battle has been reached...