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.

only those in a

a sensation that only those at a far deeper depth of their path

Rui

research facility had succeeded. They had managed to discover the secret

hostility emerged from her, crashing onto them. Rui was the only one who was able to maintain some semblance of composure. He adopted a stance in defiance. Yet, he

a bull-rushing stance,

snapped out of

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

with terror as the woman launched

BOOM!!!

with an astronomic speed that

tore the

she had launched herself with would absolutely have killed the

Would have.

Yet, it didn't.

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

She... missed?

at her with an expression that was saturated with

woman

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

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.

they're just designed to be compatible with the power of a Martial Squire?" Rui had asked him back

harder than it sounds." He had directed a pointed look at

of hope entered his eyes. It was quite clear she was a test subject in this facility, which meant it was extremely likely that she had only very recently broken through

not mastered 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

hasn't even gotten used

Kyrie or Dylon. The combination of her unaccustomed demeanor and her lack of Squire-level techniques meant that she was well below

accurate to think

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

mind, they were already

Martial Squire. They were

Rui's favour. If they had any chance of not dying. It would only

four of them, focusing all of his mind on them.