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.

burning. Each of his nerves was firing an enormous amount of pain signals all the way to his brain. He felt as though

unknown amount of time passed, and

process did not happen to all cells all at once. Instead, the evolution process focused on one system of

the evolution process on

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. It was a chamber meant to contain Squire

in each muscle dying as the surviving muscle

a surge of power, unlike anything he had

his muscles left human limits as they slowly and

He could instinctively feel him stepping away from ordinary humanity as he, for the very

it filtering out the weaker and sub-optimal flesh of his body. Anything that remained was among the best of the best, and it only get better and better thanks to the radiation he was being subjected to that caused mild mutations in every new generation of cells, some

bad ones perished quickly while the good ones survived

being subjected to his muscle groups that filtered out genetically superior cells. He knew that each time he felt a wave of pain, his muscle groups

away from his muscles as they moved to his