The Martial Unity

Rui had fully mastered the boost in physicality that he had received in the past two weeks under high-pressure combat, and both of them knew that this would be the last sparring session between them.

"Why do you say that?" Rui asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I've never seen someone as deviant as you, eh?" The man replied straightforwardly. "Your Martial Art, your techniques, and even your Martial body and your grade as a Martial Artist. They're all more than just a little confusing,"

Rui shrugged. "I have a high-grade Martial Art, and my body has received non-standard empowerment. That's all."

The man snorted, before shaking his head. "Your body is definitely strong, much stronger than I would expect of an eighteen-year-old Martial Squire who hasn't even spent two years in the Squire Realm. And the potion alone isn't enough to justify the difference."

Rui was surprised. The man had also noticed the boost in power that he gained thanks to the Mind Switch technique increasing his stamina beyond human limits, which he had then managed to sacrifice for greater physical parameters when he underwent the Squire evolution breakthrough procedure.

"Yet despite the fact that your body is stronger than someone who has only spent a year and a half in the Squire Realm, your body is actually weaker than what I would expect from a grade-four Martial Artist."

"Hm?" Rui couldn't help but frown. Despite the boosts that he had received, his body was weak for a grade-four Martial Artist?

"You are aware that Martial bodies grow stronger as time passes, correct?" The man asked, turning to Rui.

aware of this basic fact, although he hadn't

weak and immature. All Martial Squires would start out with what is informally classified as a grade-one body," The man explained. "You should have been in that category as well. Yet you have received empowerment that made your body stronger than

he had spent only eighteen months in the Squire Realm. However, due to the Mind Switch technique making his Martial body stronger than normal from the start, and the Benetein Blood potion he received recently made him stronger than

meant that his body was probably much

with a single technique and

quite unlikely had he failed to get a good strangle on the man and maintain it, a tactic that the VOID algorithm had given

his Martial Artist grade

my youth in the Squire realm would warrant because

started out with a grade-three evaluation despite only possessing the equivalent

A lot of things that he hadn't given much thought to in the past were making much more sense with the information that Rui had managed to extract from just a short

a truly potent Martial Art." The man noted. "That's what allowed you to keep up

probably would have lost if the fight prolonged. Your stamina

of being upgraded to grade five as a

work harder and finally lay foot into the Senior Realm." The man

man. "You know what it takes to