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.

a higher Realm

far deeper depth of their path could exert

Squire...!" Rui whispered,

managed to discover the secret to the Squire

examined them expressionlessly. Raw hostility emerged from her, crashing onto them. Rui was the only one who was able to maintain some

a bull-rushing stance, aiming at

snapped out of his reverie.

to the side. The other four were frozen,

as the woman launched herself

BOOM!!!

woman launched herself at a with an astronomic speed that far exceeded even that of

tore the very atmosphere

power she had launched herself with would absolutely have killed the four of them on the

Would have.

Yet, it didn't.

far over their heads crashing through a part of the wall many meters above the ground, crashing through more obstacles until her tremendous momentum had finally been killed, landing a great distance away

She... missed?

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

over in shocked confusion. The woman got up,

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

ago when Rui had asked him about the 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

the power of a Martial Squire?" Rui

pointed look at Rui back then. "The

test subject in this facility, which meant it was extremely likely that she had only very recently broken

especially impossible since Rui highly doubted the

hasn't even gotten used to her own

of her unaccustomed demeanor and her lack

accurate to think of her as

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

mind, they were

Martial Squire. They were going

mindset, but this worked in Rui's favour. If they had any chance of not dying. It would only be if all of them worked

of them, focusing all of his mind on them. The sheer pressure he exerted drew their