"And in our first fight, we have the current defending champion; Lord Graham's representative fighter Apprentice Fernan Melver versus Lady Farnu's representative fighter Apprentice Jivia" The head butler took over as he announced the first fight.

Rui watched as the two fighters entered the arena, stopping at a distance from each other.

"Take your stances." The arbiter instructed.

Apprentice Jivia took a generic defensive stance. While Fernan Melver simply stood. What Rui found strange was that he was cloaked quite heavily. That was a black cloak that covered his entire body, with only his neck and head exposed.

Rui felt a primal sense of danger with Primordial Instinct, as if he was looking at somebody that wasn't entirely human.

Then, Fernan shed the cloak.

What Rui saw shocked him to his core.

No Martial Art had ever shaken him as much he was beholding at that very moment.

A pair of wings unfolded from Fernan's back!

There were an extra set of arms above his normal arms!

Rui's eyes widened in shock.

blinked, hard, wondering if he had

need to be careful, I can't believe I'm

his eyes, the wings and the

Nartha. "Did you put something in that

burst out laughing. "It seems you're unfamiliar with symbiotic Martial Art despite being a Martial Artist. Understandable, they are so rare and

he turned towards Fernan, extremely confused.

implantation and cooperation with a living symbiote for combat for extra utility. The extra arms and wings come from implanted larva of certain special species of symbiotes that integrate

widened as his jaw dropped with shock. "How do you know that?" Doubting her

ordinarily possess." She turned towards him. "I was very excited when Nartha here told me you were returning.

pressure, of course." Nartha smiled at him with

didn't care. He was too stunned by the revelation

it work? How was something like this

have super special

corrected himself. ('That's true only for Earth's symbiotes. Gaia is a whole different beast. If fauna and flora can be fantastically absurd, then is it impossible

it did not seem impossible for symbiotes to be capable of incredible

utility in combat would theoretically

different in principle from what the symbiotic Martial Art he was witnessing. Cymothoa exigua was an underwater tongue-eating louse from Earth that consumed the tongue of its host and latched itself onto the blood vessels and the muscles of the newly severed tongue,

the digestion of the food of the fish in exchange for sustaining itself on the host

witnessing was essentially an infinitely more complex and fantastical version

still...') Rui gaped. ('This is

couldn't believe that Fernan possessed an extra pair of arms and a pair of

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