"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.

wondering if he had overused potions

careful, I can't believe

wings

"Did you put something in that tea

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

Art?" he turned towards Fernan,

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 into the host's body and growing larger until they turn into those." She gestured

his jaw dropped with shock. "How do you know

know everything about him. Symbiotic Martial Art techniques involve putting symbiotes with special utility that the human body cannot ordinarily possess." She turned towards him. "I was very excited when Nartha here told me you were returning. We have a bet on

of course." Nartha smiled at him with a smile that didn't

He was too stunned by the revelation of symbiotic Martial

How was something like this even possible in the first

have super special

a whole different beast. If fauna and flora can

this world, it did

extra utility in combat would

weren't too 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, and then became the

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

more complex and fantastical version of the

gaped. ('This is

Rui couldn't believe that Fernan possessed an

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