The Martial Unity

The battlefield had escalated in violence astronomically. Martial Apprentices were those who were able to exceed the limits of their physicality via their Martial Art and their Martial Path. This meant that the scales of power in a fight with eleven Martial Apprentices would far surpass what ordinary humans could do.

If someone from Earth heard the battle from afar, they would no doubt assume they were near a live warzone and immediately flee. If they were to see the battleground of the Martial Apprentices, they would assume a rogue demolition vehicle had gone nuts in the area.

Broken trees, cracked rocks, cratered land, broken carriages, mangled bodies.

It was not conceivable that mere humans were responsible for such devastation.

The outer section of the convoy was damn near entirely destroyed and scattered, the men from the security team had huddled at the center of the behind the Martial Apprentices of the Martial Union. Ordinarily they would have long escaped while the bandit Martial Artist were held back, but they were to remain in the battlefield so that the Martial Artists of the Martial Union would be able to remain there to fight the bandit Martial Artists along with their own Martial Artists.

The remaining security and other non-combat personnel quickly huddled in the carriages and prayed for the best.

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Fae slammed Vale with a flurry of palm attacks, peppering with powerful blows as he guarded against them with furious tenacity.

The man's physicality was greater than even that of Dalen, so Fae had adjusted her fighting style just a little. Reducing the number of blows she fired in her barrage in exchange for increasing the power of each blow. This was because, a large number of weaker blows would not do as much damage as lower number of stronger blows.

Damage did not work like that; it wasn't linear and additive in nature in that way.

"RAAAGH." He swung at her with great power.

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Fae deflected the attack to the side with a powerful palm attack. This was one of the latest techniques she had mastered; Spiral Palm; By twisting her core to generate torque, she could use her palm attacks not just in a linear fashion to attack, but also to deflect all incoming linear blows. It had high efficiency, although its flexibility was a little low.

The reason for that was because it really only worked on linearly incoming attacks, and not strikes with a non-linear trajectory.

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She managed to land another strike clean on his abdomen through his guard by altering her trajectory mid-strike with the help of yet another Apprentice-level technique; Curling Convergence. Since her fight Kane, she had done her best to increase her versatility. She had realized she was too limited, limited to throwing straight palms.

Apprentice just a little after she turned fourteen. Although three years was not a short time. Learning and mastering Martial

on Vale had struck his diaphragm much to her fortune disorienting and incapacitating

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her best to ensure

diaphragm hindered breathing significantly, since it was the

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Vale. Following his brief mild, yet vital incapacitation, Fae exploited the opening to

Throat.

Liver.

Solar Plexus.

Lower jaw.

Philtrum.

Glabella.

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A straight palm into the diaphragm, an uppercut palm

before collapsing to his knees and then flat onto his

happened next drew the attention of every Martial

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a final palm strike pumped up with power straight down onto the skull of

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the human body would simply be crushed by Fae's

at Vale's mangled skull atop a pool of blood and cranial

Artists of the Martial Union and the Lowminer Industries inwardly rejoiced, while the bandits felt their heart