The Martial Unity

"I heard Kane was a favourite." Rui said. "Does that mean the other favourites among the descendants of the Martial community are also at his level?"

Fae nodded. "Talen-wise Kane is considered a top three among all the descendants of the Martial community. Though he isn't the most talented."

Rui's eyes flew wide open at those words. "You're telling me there's a prodigy even more talented than Kane??"

Rui found that hard to believe. Kane broke through at the age of eleven, and was so talented that he was easily on par with Rui, despite all of Rui's huge advantages. Up until, recently, Kane was comfortably stronger than him too. Rui was certain that if Kane loved Martial Art as much as he did, he might have gone to even greater heights.

Fae nodded. "Her name is Fiona. Fiona Roschem. The granddaughter of His Honour Grandmaster Sage Damian."

The granddaughter of His Honour Sage Damian, who was the Grandmaster of all the Academies in the Kandrian Martial Union, lived up to her pedigree.

"How strong is she?" Rui asked with sparkling eyes.

"I haven't seen her in almost two years, I don't know how strong she currently is." Fae replied. "But she's strong. I haven't beaten her a single time in any of our spars, despite being two years older than her. She's the strongest Martial Apprentice of our generation, probably."

"Damn, you're killing me." Rui complained. The more Fae went on and on about this girl, the more he felt impatient for the Kandrian Martial Festival to arrive.

"Don't be so hasty, get a hold of yourself." Fae threw a disapproving look. "It's still some time away, and as you are right now, you probably won't be able to beat her. Forget fighting her, you can't be sure you'll be elected as a representative."

her Martial Art like?" Rui asked

a perfect all-rounder."

jack-of-all-trades but a

a jack of all trades and a master of

another outburst of excitement, as

is speaking so highly of her, she must be something

all fields? If that really was the case, then Rui had quickly surmised he stood no chance as he was now. He knew that he was far from a master of any one particular field, he had barely managed to become above average in all fields, which wasn't unimpressive, because most Martial Apprentices could manage becoming average in

he wasn't even near being a master of all trades. He wondered

been a Martial Apprentice for?"

"Five years." Fae replied.

you were two years older than

age of nine."

"???"

the Kandrian Empire."

clear. Fiona Roschem was pretty much a confirmed future

to evaluate his chances of winning the contest and fighting

order to be elected as a representative of the Mantian Martial Academy, he needed to grow to be the strongest of the Martial Apprentices

did think that mastering the four techniques he'd set out to master gave him a decent chance, by then his wealth of techniques would probably be

after a few years of training in the Foundation Stage and Exploration Stage, and then needed to a few

descendants of Martial families like Milliana, Dalen and especially Fae and Kane were quite different from these Apprentices. The latter four were talented and had broken much earlier than the norm and had spent more time as Martial Apprentices,