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.

those in a higher Realm

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

Rui whispered,

facility had succeeded. They had managed to discover the

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 was the

woman adopted a bull-rushing stance, aiming at

out of

side. The other four

bellowed with terror as the woman launched herself at the

BOOM!!!

at a with an astronomic speed that far

tore the very

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

Would have.

Yet, it didn't.

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

She... missed?

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

paralyzed turned over in shocked confusion. The woman got up, unharmed. Yet she

then that Rui 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 techniques that can handle the power

to be compatible with the power of a Martial Squire?" Rui had asked him back

and it's harder than it sounds." He had directed a pointed look

a test subject in this facility,

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

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

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 as

accurate to think

rectify her whopping inaccuracy. She didn't immediately rush over and

they were

Martial Squire. They were going

but this worked in Rui's favour. If they

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