The Martial Unity

"Hm?" Rui's ears perked as Seismic Mapping and Tempestuous Feel picked up some heightened activity coming from the direction that the convoy was supposed to come. Furthermore, it should have been about time for the convoy to approach, by his estimations, give or take.

He got up before crouching down to a knee behind some vegetation on the hill.

It took a while for Rui to finally be close enough to make out details about the approaching source of the activity that he had perceived using his two techniques.

('Twenty-eight carriages,') Rui counted. ('Matches the information I was given about the convoy.')

The convoy was transporting esoteric supplies to the Commonwealth Duchy of Vinfrana, most of these carriages were storage carriages that were filled with the esoteric raw supplies needed to sustain the communication sectors of the Commonwealth Duchy of Vinfrana. Thus, Rui didn't think it would be easy for them to be able to evacuate with supply carriages.

As long as he disrupted the vanguard and the rear, they would be forced to abandon the entire convoy as they escaped.

Rui's eyes narrowed as the convoy approached closer. His Primordial instinct alerted him to the presence of a strong Martial Squire. He could sense his opponent increasingly clearly.

Of course, Rui was quite certain that his opponent couldn't sense his own Martial Squire status. After all, Rui had been strongly concealing his mental pressure aura with the Mind Mask technique.

Soon the convoy had entered his field of vision, and Rui had already prepared what he was going to open with.

It was time.

Rui leaped into the air, launching seven Sonic Bullets at the rear row of carriages.

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!

In less than a second, the carriages had been carefully crippled, and broken apart in a manner that made it impossible to turn around and run back from where they came. The cohesion of the crew broke apart as immense panic beset them, Rui could hear the crew members screaming as they tried to follow whatever protocols they could when attacked.

THUD

landed in the path of the convoy, unleashing the bloodlust

in the direction of the convoy, but it was too

POW

man appeared in the path of the attack, dispelling the attack with a spinning

smiled behind his

language never once taking his eyes off Rui. His gaze ran up and down the latter's body, noting the garb, only

Apprentices assigned to the

The air grew frosty.

feel the frozen atmosphere growing tauter by the second as it was wrung under the maelstrom of pressure the two formidable Martial

from their perspective, it was all the time

inducing bone-chilling terror in any human who bore witness to

STEP

...

STEP

STEP STEP STEP

ounce of power in his muscles, his body shook as it brimmed to the

BOOM!

the atmosphere left violent sonic booms in his wake. His body contorted as he released a thundering swirling kick to

And yet;

RUMBLE

in shock as Rui intercepted his strike with a single palm. What was

to his greatest shock, the power of his

Squire Crillian felt weak. He felt