The Martial Unity

They all got into position, even if Nel urged rush forward and attack.

In the distance, a silhouette could be seen through the dust, walking in their direction.

STEP

STEP

STEP

It took its time.

Nothing out of the ordinary happened.

Yet, their eyes widened.

The air grew taut as an unimaginable amount of pressure crashed onto them. The air froze, and they haplessly followed suit.

Something was wrong.

Very wrong.

They felt primal fear arise from within their depths, crippling their body.

It was as though time itself had slowed down.

STEP

She emerged from the dust.

Completely naked.

Not a single shred of cloth covered her ample breasts or her pelvis. Yet the sight of her generated nothing but unparalleled fear in all of them.

Rui's eyes widened as he recognized the sensation Primordial Instinct was sensing.

This wasn't just fear.

This wasn't just danger.

Nay.

sensation that only those in a higher Realm of

a far deeper depth of

Rui

succeeded. They had managed to discover the

one who was able to maintain some

adopted a bull-rushing stance, aiming at

out of his reverie. "Shit.

he was the only one who dove to the side. The other four were frozen, not even Nel had been

bellowed with terror as the woman

BOOM!!!

an astronomic speed that far exceeded

the very atmosphere

power she had launched herself with would absolutely

Would have.

Yet, it didn't.

part of the wall many meters above the ground, crashing through more obstacles until her tremendous momentum had

She... missed?

mind-boggled he just stared at her with an expression that was

been paralyzed turned over in shocked confusion. The woman got up, unharmed. Yet she wasn't pleased,

understood. His mind flashed back to a conversation he'd had with Squire Dylon a

difference between Apprentice and Squire level techniques. "An Apprentice-level Martial Art technique simply cannot utilize our full power because it is not meant to handle our power. Squire-level techniques are simply techniques that can handle the power of Martial Squires, and can only be used by Martial

power of a Martial Squire?" Rui had asked him

it's harder than it sounds." He had directed a pointed look at Rui back then. "The difference between

was quite clear she was a test subject in this facility, which meant it was extremely likely that she had only very

any Squire-level techniques! It was especially impossible since Rui highly doubted the Commonwealth Duchy of Vinfrana even had any Squire-level techniques in the first

realized. ('She hasn't even gotten used

she could not be considered a full-fledged Squire. She would be crushed by the likes of Squire Kyrie or Dylon. The combination of her unaccustomed demeanor and her lack of Squire-level techniques meant that she was well below the Squire-Realm as far

accurate to think of her as

leisurely, trying to analyze and rectify her whopping inaccuracy. She didn't immediately

her mind, they

Martial Squire. They were

favour. If they had any chance of not dying. It would only be if all of them worked

glared at all four of them, focusing all of his mind on them. The