"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.

hard, wondering if he had overused potions

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

the wings

turned towards Nartha. "Did you put something in that

Martial Art despite being a Martial Artist. Understandable, they are so rare and there are so few Martial

Fernan, extremely confused. "What the fuck is

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 at Fernan's extra limbs

widened as his jaw dropped with shock. "How

Lady Farnu chuckled. "I 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

him with a smile that didn't

too stunned

did it work? How was something like

have super

corrected himself. ('That's true only for Earth's symbiotes. Gaia is a whole different beast. If fauna and flora

did not seem impossible for symbiotes

host extra utility in combat would

fact, Rui was reminded of several creatures from Earth that in reality 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

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

was essentially an infinitely more complex and fantastical version of

gaped. ('This is

Rui couldn't believe that Fernan possessed an extra pair of

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