The Martial Unity

His first genuine battle in the Squire Realm.

His first victory in the Squire Realm.

His spar against Squire Kyrie did not even remotely count as a proper battle, that was so elementary that Kyrie had even withheld from sky-walking in combat which would have allowed her to dominate Rui with her superior experience. She held back to allow Rui to express and test himself against her and gain a better understanding of what he had and what he was missing before mopping the floor with him.

The training spars against his two Squire habilitators were even more meaningless. He had still been mastering his power back then and hadn't mastered a single technique at that point.

He felt like he had finally gotten a good grasp of what he could achieve in combat and what he couldn't. He was no longer as dominating in combat as he used to be in the Apprentice Realm. Of course, he had grown far stronger than when he was a Martial Apprentice, but his competition had grown even fiercer.

This battle had shown him he shouldn't be as satisfied with himself as he was. He had run into an opponent in the same age group as him who possessed a defense that made a fool of his offensive techniques and possessed combat speed with his whip techniques that also significantly surpassed that of Rui.

All of this came with the power of synergy and compatibility. His Martial body and techniques must have been born for each other. Or at the very least, that was the impression that Rui got.

he lacked clarity on the path forward. Before breaking through to the Squire Realm, he had extremely concrete and clear goals that made it exceedingly simple to know what he ought to do, he had lost some of

that; a long-term goal, something that

he naturally looked at now that he successfully became a Martial Squire, but again, the path to Martial Senior was not something that

another Marital Squire, he could see one

my Martial Art with myself, and against everything

to move forward, while also increasing the

conditions he could be certain would help in progressing

he opened his eyes, they were no longer searching. They were fixated on the future, and on his goals. His approach to training and growth would

he stretched his body, glancing at that

to himself sincerely. ('Thank you for what you have given me. Sorry, but I won't be able to give your body a burial. I'm sure the Martial Union will

Empire from the objects that he was carrying, as well as his Martial Body.

first, I need to

to the right where Mt Zurtun was situated. Rui was grateful that the battlefield was such an unmissable landmark because

that anybody would take it. He did take the liberty of covering it