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.

nodded. He was aware of this basic fact, although he hadn't been informed

that are quite 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 that of someone of your age in the Squire Realm. Still, this would at most make your physical body as strong as that of the average

in the Squire Realm. However, due to the Mind Switch

probably much weaker than the

had a powerful body. He could negate my strikes easily with a single technique and his body. Part of that must have been due to his

get a good strangle on the man and

when his Martial Artist grade had

my youth in the Squire realm would warrant because of the strength of the VOID algorithm!')

he started out with a grade-three evaluation despite only possessing

much more sense with the information that Rui had managed to extract from just a short conversation with a much more

man noted. "That's what

prolonged. Your stamina is greater and eventually, it would have

understood why Senior Ceeran had told Rui to restrain his expectations of being upgraded to grade five as a Martial Artist. In fact, he felt he was rather naïve and ignorant for

Realm." The man got up. "That challenges that need to be surmounted in order to step into a higher

he looked at the man. "You know what it takes to become