The Martial Unity

One after the other, Martial Artists of both sides came forward to demonstrate the techniques that the other side wanted to obtain. The demonstrations were different, as none of the techniques were too similar, and they had different parameters that made them impressive.

Rui watched with interest as they came up one by one, executing their techniques. It was one thing to read reports and analyses on them, it was another to actually witness them in the flesh.

He realized there were many nuances that he had missed prior.

For one, despite their lacking of impact power in their attacks. They were not necessarily less lethal than the Longranger Martial Squires of the Martial Union by a great degree. They had a surprising amount of lethality through means besides impacts.

There were many ways to inflict damage on a person. Impacts through strikes or wind-based projectiles were just the most straightforward and easiest ways to inflict damage on people.

In reality, there were entire fields of Martial Art that were dedicated to inflicting damage on people through unusual and non-standard means. The most significant ones that came to mind were poison-oriented techniques. These techniques were lethal in ways that did not involve inflicting more than a bit of a wound. Sometimes, no wounds were required to be inflicted at all.

Of course, these techniques of the G'ak'arkan Tribe did not operate on the same principle as poison techniques, but they also inflicted damage through non-standard ways. Thus, despite not having techniques that exerted powerful impacts, they possessed techniques that were just as damaging as powerful impacts, and sometimes even more.

One of the techniques that Rui had come across caused debilitating damage to ear drums through directed sound waves. Another Martial Artist used techniques that caused a rapid vacuum around their opponent spontaneously, causing the internal pressure generated by the body to momentarily exceed skin durability for just a brief moment caused by the extremely rapid shift in pressure. The enhanced durability of Martial Squires prevented this from happening under ordinary circumstances, however, the rapid pressure shift allowed for internal pressure to surpass the durability of outer flesh such that it could cause flesh to tear, inflicting wounds on the body using its own pressure.

target spent too much time affected

was most likely because Martial Artists, in pursuit of individuality, came up with newer means to harm

them to pick their own unique paths from the very start of their journey down their Martial Path. Had they not done that, then Rui highly

opponent, then they would have straightforwardly inherited and mastered existing

Martial Union chased after, then perhaps it would make sense for the Martial Union to adopt the same, or at least a similar approach to encourage and foster more individuality, even

to Rui, then there were several

THWOOM!

at an incredible speed

read about this technique in the reports but realized that there was more going under the surface than he

made of sound.') He frowned. ('Yet it moves faster than the speed of

was generally

to several factors, such as atmospheric pressure. The pressure that the atmosphere had on air molecules that served as the medium

speed and rate at which air molecules bounced at each other, and only in special

wave exerted that of the shackling atmospheric pressure

so small?') Rui glanced at the