The Martial Unity

Pain was all he could feel, and his sense of surroundings began disappearing, however, that wasn't all.

He didn't know how much time had passed within the apotheosis chamber. Any number of seconds, minutes hours, or even days could have passed. There was no source of light within the apotheosis chamber, after all. There was nothing that moved that could indicate the passage of time.

He had earlier relied on his own heartbeat, but now he was consumed in too much pain for him to be able to focus on his sense of hearing.

Suddenly, a change occurred.

His pain localized to his skin and flesh, the portions of his body that it was spread across had reduced, but the intensity of the pain had risen.

"AAAARRRRRGHGHRGRHRGR!!" Rui screeched in pain as his brain and mind reeled at the sheer intensity of the influx of pain that was hitting him. The pain this procedure was inflicting on him was hitting the limits of the possible amount of pain that could be felt from a single organ.

He soon realized he had underestimated the sheer amount of agony this procedure would be subjected to.

Of course, this might have sounded stupid in hindsight. He already knew full well how the evolution process worked. It should have been obvious to him that he would feel this kind of pain. But it was difficult to understand beforehand just how much pain the process would inflict on him. It was one thing to understand theoretically that he would feel excruciating pain he had never felt before, it was another thing to be able to actually understand how much the pain was and how it would feel.

enormous amount of pain signals all the way to his brain. He felt as though they were

time passed, and eventually, the pain

what was happening. He knew that the evolution process did not happen to all cells all at once. Instead, the evolution process focused on

they were definitely focusing the evolution process on his skin and outer

a wave of agony. Every single muscle group felt like they were on fire. Rui struggled continuously, yet the apotheosis chamber withstood every ounce of his power without so much as budging.

muscles burned endlessly. Rui could almost feel muscle fibers in each muscle dying as the surviving muscle fibers began reproducing and new muscle fibers took the

felt a surge of power, unlike anything he had ever felt before.

slowly and steadily ascended to

submerged in. He could instinctively feel him stepping away from ordinary humanity as he, for the very first time, ascended to

he could also feel it filtering out the weaker and sub-optimal flesh of his body. Anything that remained was among the best of the best, and

quickly while the good ones survived and

the filtration processes that were being subjected to his muscle groups that filtered out genetically superior cells. He knew that each

pain shifted away from his muscles as they moved to his