The Martial Unity

And just like that, a month had passed.

Rui had taken up several missions, aiming for missions of the higher remuneration in the shortest amount of time within his difficulty grade. He had taken up a total of six missions in the past month. Five bodyguard missions, two hunting-class missions and one offense-class mission.

He had racked up a total of six hundred and forty martial credits, that in addition to the martial credits he had earned from the earthen basilisk mission as well as the royal mission immediately after yielded to a total of one thousand two hundred and twenty martial credits!

Rui was happy that he had managed to hit four digits by the end of the month. This means he had access to a lot of the good stuff!

You couldn't buy multiple high-grade techniques with just a measly hundred or two hundred martial credits. He was satisfied with his reserve, especially since he couldn't acquire anymore. He had run out of time.

The next five months would fully be dedicated to getting stronger. After that, the long-awaited Kandrian Martial Festival will have finally arrived.

But, he was experiencing a problem he hadn't ever experienced before.

He had absolutely no idea what techniques to purchase!

Of course, even normally when he was about to purchase technique, he usually didn't have a precise idea of exactly what techniques in the Apprentice library he wanted to purchase. But, he knew what kind of techniques he wanted to purchase, and what conditions they had to satisfy for him to purchase them.

in all basic fields. At that point, he had no Apprentice-level techniques at all. It was embarrassing to even call himself a proper Martial Apprentice. He had been desperately trying to take the first step in forming the basic

second training round had been centered around filling the large gaping holes in his variety and diversity. By purchasing some grappling and wrestling techniques, as well as a finishing strike and some defensive and counter-offensive moves. He had expanded the limits of his options from merely Vital Pressure striking to many ways through which he could take

Martial Art. Outer Convergence had given it a foundational and fundamental boost in power and speed, while Inner Divergence had given him the ability to endure. Blink gave him the option of exploiting opening that he previously could not exploit while Seismic Sensing closed off many opening that his opponents would normally be able to exploit, but now

training with a clear

what was

have any specific

that would allow him to win the Martial Academic Contest in the Kandrian

purchase some more power-boosting techniques like Outer Convergence? Hoping that the immense power he would generate would win him the

Parallel Walk and instead hope that his evasiveness will ensure

go down the Dalen path and boost his already

the Milliana path and ensure he could fight for long period of time? The VOID

in all honesty. He simply didn't know which of the many paths he ought to go down. Hell, he could even

was because he didn't know which path was most suited for the Martial Academy Contest that would be hosted together by all sixteen Martial

was a national-level

contest would be crowned the strongest

much as Rui had been looking forward to this, he realized he didn't know too much about the details. Part of it was because it felt so distant, just a while back it was a year away, and now suddenly Rui had only five months of training and refinement