The Martial Unity

In the Martial Academy, Martial Apprentices were given an immense amount of freedom on how they wanted to spend their time and what and how they wanted to train. The Squire instructors merely took the roles of guides, rather than teachers. This had done the Martial Apprentices well, and without it, they likely would not make as much progress with the individuality and maturity of their Martial Art, thereby reducing the number of Martial Apprentices that achieved Squire candidacy.

If Rui were her, he would immediately begin arming himself with many lethal offensive techniques that could inflict greater damage with every attack. Of course, this alone was going to be a long and difficult journey that would likely take Crea several years to truly complete. In his opinion, she ought to also increase her passive defense and endurance.

If she was going to abandon active defense and go all out on offense every time her opponent attacked, then she needed to ensure that her skin, flesh, muscles, and bones were all tough. Otherwise, she might very well lose the fight in one exchange.

He also felt that she ought to purchase endurance techniques that allow her to mitigate the damage she ended up suffering.

But he didn't mention any of these recommendations, he was pretty sure colonel Geringan would not be pleased even if he did try.

They conversed for some more time before another matter interrupted them.

"Young miss Crea." An employee of the family addressed her, bowing.

"Hm?" She turned towards him, knitting her eyebrows.

"I'm afraid you need to begin preparing for your evening appointment now, or else you will not be able to make it in time."

Her expression drooped. "Later."

her a measured

her eyes before looking back at Rui. "Bye-bye teacher. Thanks for everything. I will never forget how much you helped

ran before Rui could

then I ought to take my

prompting Geringan to do

thing." Geringan paused. "I'm holding a party to celebrate Crea breaking

that there would be a heavy presence of members of the Merger

also have to look after the training of my two siblings as well, they didn't manage to clear

but it can't be helped. Once again,

that's generous of

each other goodbye, as Rui left the residence. However, he didn't head in the direction of the Orphanage when he took off

through and finish those two techniques

course, colonel Geringan had been more than generous with the proposed hourly remuneration rate, allowing Rui to accumulate enough wealth to sustain his expenditure for some time without needing another source of income. He intended to finish the two techniques that he had purchased from the

two techniques, he didn't need the Martial Union anymore. He could do most of the work by

is going

would be able to almost entirely absorb the power of the incoming attack and turn it