The Martial Unity

He had already computed several potential solutions from all the Martial Art techniques he had ever known off.

"Poison, piercing, heat, friction, and permeation are the prime candidates." He murmured.

Poison was attractive, it inflicted damage in a manner that completely bypassed the physical durability of the target. It didn't matter how tough one's muscles or bones were. Poison would inflict damage all the same. However, it was less effective the larger the target was. This was because a greater amount of mass meant a greater number of cells that the poison had to attack.

Piercing was a solid candidate as well, but he already had the Stinger. Although the Stinger had piercing depth limits that made it less lethal against larger targets, Rui wasn't sure it was worth getting another technique of the same kind. He was looking to expand the diversity of the fields his Martial Art covered, not build up more on a single field.

Heat was certainly a potent field. Ferlicia had gone incredibly far in the Martial Contest thanks to it. However, it had its problems. It was not a light field to delve into and would require an immense amount before it would become lethal to larger creatures. The size problem worked against it as well.

Friction was also a lethal field. Byron Harth had been chosen as the representative of his Martial Academy in the Martial Contest. However, it wasn't lethal enough to deal critical damage to mammalian creatures that had an incredibly thick amount of flesh and fur.

"That leaves permeation," Rui noted.

Permeation was a powerful field. Rui had personally fought against Servil Bisha who had given a long run for his money. Permeation was a field of striking techniques that allowed an impact to permeate deeper into the body of a target via vibrations. This allowed the power of a strike to bypass the strong flesh, bones, and muscles of the target to a large degree and inflict on the more vulnerable inners of the target.

It was quite perfectly suited for larger creatures. It allowed him to hurt them with every strike and even knock them out the same way he could knock out Martial Artists. It was perfect and especially suited to handling them. It lacked the same level of lethality as some of the other options but gave him more stability in his ability to hurt them.

long to find a technique that suited

[Reverberating Lance]

deeper into the body to inflict damage more so onto the internal

spot balance of potency and difficulty where Rui could absolutely guarantee that he could master it. Once

to master the

to go." He noted. "Alright then. What else

his ability to adapt to a greater number of opponents and

going to be embarking on the most difficult of missions, the danger will also be proportionally higher. I should get an endurance technique that will increase my survivability." He

hadn't purchased even a single endurance technique to date. Part of this was because he always had a healing potion at hand. However, not only were his missions getting increasingly dangerous, he was undertaking a lot of foreign missions. This meant that

especially true in places like the Beast Domain. Out

his endurance and survivability could be the key difference

than sorry."

supplementary techniques until he ran into something that met his

[Final Breathing]

ominous name."

of hormones that allowed for the pain to be less hindering than it normally was. It also accelerated the clotting of wounds, preventing the user from losing much blood. It was a breathing technique that minimized the shackles of damage as much as humanly possible and allowed the user to operate with the best they