The Martial Unity

It was an intriguing idea, one that was definitely worth seriously considering. Poison would allow him to capitalize the most on an open wound, more than almost any other offensive field. He pictured something such as conditioning the part of his body that would be piercing into his target with a powerful toxin. Doing so would allow him to incapacitate, hamper, or even kill his opponent depending on what kind of poison he chose and how potent it was.

('The only problem is the matter of how compatible I am with poison.') Rui sighed.

Poison was a niche field, perhaps not to the same extent as something like heat was, but it certainly was very much divorced from the mainstream fields of techniques that Martial Artists most dabbled in.

Rui recalled a conversation he had with headmaster Aronian regarding the Unorthodox Sect and why they had been dubbed as such. Fields such as poison and heat were not inherent natural applications of the human body. The proportion of Martial Art and Martial Paths centered around these fields was low due to this very reason. The same applied to compatibility, the compatibility of the average martial Artist with these fields was low.

That was Rui was somewhat unsure of whether he was qualified to incorporate any potent poison into his technique.

('But it doesn't necessarily need to be potent.') Rui noted.

As long as the poison accomplished some meaningful difference, it was worth pursuing. Furthermore, unless Rui was, for some reason, especially horribly incompatible with poison, it was unlikely that he would be unable to obtain something of some utility.

would have been an easy decision had I still been in the Apprentice Realm, but it gets more complicated now that I'm in

poison. Martial Apprentices were physically human, unless they had gone out of their way to master some defensive resistance training techniques against poison, they were as

to invasive substances that were detrimental to the human body. What would kill even the most resistant Martial Apprentices was something that most Martial Squires would be able to resist. The question was whether Rui would be able to master Squire-level poison techniques that were required to affect Martial Squires to

thought. ('I might need to learn more about the poison-oriented techniques from the Martial Union before I can

to obtain some help from the Martial Union; purely distant aid

other options as well. Another option

of the Martial representatives of the Martial Contest had a Martial Path that was centered around friction. The man's very touch wrenched and ground against the flesh, causing excruciating

with intrigue in his eyes. ('Then, as I penetrate my opponent, I will be inflicted damage to the sides of the wound due to sheer

blade surfaces. If someone was stabbed with a knife, both the actual sharp blade and the tiny spikes on its side would cause tremendous amounts of damage and pain

if I combine piercing, friction, and poison?') Rui's

knife that had many tiny spikes on its

each of the three fields would be no different from a lethal assassination technique that could

a thing even possible?')

To be more precise, he didn't know if he possessed