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.

was a sensation that only those in a higher Realm of existence could exert

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

Rui

managed to discover the secret to

one who was able to maintain

a bull-rushing stance, aiming

snapped out of

dove to the side. The other four were frozen,

terror as the woman launched

BOOM!!!

at a with an astronomic speed that

the very

power she had launched herself with would absolutely

Would have.

Yet, it didn't.

of the wall many meters above the ground, crashing through more obstacles

She... missed?

mind-boggled he just stared at her

who had been paralyzed turned over in shocked confusion. The woman got up, unharmed. Yet she wasn't pleased, she glanced at her own palms in

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

about the difference between Apprentice and Squire level techniques. "An Apprentice-level Martial Art technique simply cannot utilize our

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

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

entered his eyes. It was quite clear she was a test subject in this facility, which meant it was extremely likely

meant she had not mastered any Squire-level techniques! It was especially impossible since Rui highly doubted the Commonwealth Duchy

techniques!') Rui realized. ('She hasn't even gotten used

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 as overall

more accurate to think of

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

her mind, they

Squire. They

If they had any chance of

focusing all of his mind on them. The sheer