The Martial Unity

Rui tapped his feet as he waited in the cockpit.

"The island has come in view," Captain Crartas as he gestured, before turning around to the crew of sailors behind him. "Alright folks, let's slow down according to protocol,"

Rui ignored the surge in the bustling of the sailors behind him. "Why slow down when the island is that close?"

"It was protocol that came into play after we realized that they cooperate better when we aren't rushing at them at top speed. They're a paranoid bunch," The captain replied.

"They already know we're here," Rui replied.

Half of the coast of Vilun Island was sharp cliffs with dangerous rock formations that protruded from below the surface. The other half was more gentle beaches that the M'etKanun Tribe resided near.

The Martial Union had no intention of infringing on the territory of one of the Martial Tribes of Vilun Island with a cruise ship, thus the only route was to scale up the cliffs that were naturally uninhabited.

Of course, the intelligence made it clear that they would not be able to interact with the M'etKanun Tribe due to their frequenting the oceans around the island.

That was why Rui was waiting for the inevitable confrontation with the M'etKanun Tribe.

He had worn the attire that the Martial Union had given to represent them, and he also had his mind mask ready and prepped to put on the second he sensed something or was alerted of something.

Rui was actually quite grateful that he had other Martial Artists engaging in surveillance because his sensory techniques weren't of much use. Tempestuous Feel was utterly useless when it came to sensing phenomena underwater, while Seismic Mapping was largely useless due to how different sound waves propagated underwater vs how seismic radiation propagated on land.

Unless the M'etKanun Tribe was incompetent enough to generate tremendous amounts of noise underwater, he would not be able to sense them coming up to him.

shown him how

allow that to remain this way in the

Path was adaptive evolution, and Rui had set high ambitions that he had no intention of reneging on. That

Squire Kravis nodded when they reached close

each other while Captain Crartas was frozen mid-air. Rui walked out of the

seamlessly shot

"You

"Of course, sir."

thing aside from a few fish, except for his eyes that saw several human figures emerge to

aquadynamic scales of aquatic animals and other adornments that all originated from the oceans. Rui spotted many corals and shells adorning necklaces on

patterns and designs across their body

what drew his attention was

were prepared and

that they, like all other Martial Tribes, had no problem with picking a fight with the entire

him as well. For he had long donned the most powerful mind mask that

the Martial Artists around him felt

this was only because he had told Senior Ceeran to wrap his aura and vibe as deep as he could, Rui could only hope that his highly magnified

it seemed

he spread his arms, speaking fluent Vilun dialect.

purpose for coming to this island, outsider?" The strongest Martial Squire standing at the

He didn't bear any hostile intentions, but he wasn't going to

Rui repeated, before continuing. "We come for friendship, and we have