The Martial Unity

Three weeks passed. Yet Rui hadn't undertaken another mission. In fact, not a single person had seen so much of a shadow of him after he locked himself in his dorm room with a box of books.

No one knew what he was up to.

Yet everyone was admittedly curious. The feat that he and the other performed in their previous mission had only spread more and more. It was practically impossible to hide such astounding news, especially since it had been heard by a large number of people in the Apprentice post-mission facility who technically were not bound by any rules to keep what they'd heard a secret.

And even if they were, the word would have leaked regardless.

Not a single person in the Academy or the other Academies was unsurprised. Rui had gone from being one of the strongest Martial Apprentices of his generation to performing a feat that was unthinkable for the Apprentice-Realm.

Of course, they did not possess the necessary contest to understand that the feat was exaggerated and completely blown out of proportion and was far more grounded in reality than it sounded. However, not only did they not know, they did not care.

The remaining four Martial Apprentices had been harassed to no short extent. It had reached the point that Kane, Fae, and Hever had taken medium-term missions away from the Academy because they weren't being left alone.

Nel, on the other hand, simply attacked every single person that wouldn't leave him alone, resulting in him being penalized, since conflict outside the ring was not allowed.

Rui inadvertently avoided it by locking himself in his dorm room, he didn't know what was going on in the outside world, and he didn't care in the slightest.

THUD

closed the book in

Vinfranese for the

said. "I'm finally

as well as a Vinfranese dictionary. He began obsessively learning the language soaking in the vast information and pouring it into his mind palace. It had taken him a while, but with his powerful mind and the Mind Palace technique, he had mastered the language in its entirety

closed his eyes, sitting

in his mind appeared. He immediately briskly walked over to a part of it where he had stored the research data of the research

box, taking out the first log journal and

the words were fully understandable. The document was structured quite similarly to how a research paper on Earth would be syntaxed. A section titled 'abstract' gave context and background followed by an introduction section that spoke more about the research project straightforwardly and then the body of the actual paper

He immediately jumped in.

[45th autumn, year 406ME

Project Apotheosis

the mass migration of Martial Artists of higher Realms to other nations, the secret to the breakthrough to the Squire Realm that was monopolized by those of higher Realms was also lost. Since then, none of the Martial Apprentices of the Duchy have broken through. Among the few scarce pieces of information

truth, he had come to realize that by himself. He recalled the way the breakthrough to the Apprentice Realm was

at any moment. It was a

Squire Realm was talked about. Every time it was spoken about, it was treated as something that was... controllable. That was something Rui had caught sharply. It was spoken off as

document said that it had been confirmed that the breakthrough was man-made. In research, this was not a term that was used lightly. It meant there was conclusive proof that all pointed to the fact that the breakthrough to the Squire Realm was not a natural event but was something engineered and developed by humans to