The Martial Unity

"Of course it is large," Rui smiled. "The difference between the bottom of the Apprentice Realm and the peak of it is immense."

The two of them were quite surprised by this.

"So we have a long way to go before we can reach the Squire Realm?" Max heaved a sigh.

Rui couldn't help but be amused. These two did not have any idea about the difficulty of breaking through to the Squire Realm, clearly. He did not intend to divulge all of it, either. He had not been told about the evolution breakthrough process to the Squire Realm for multiple reasons, and he could understand why in hindsight.

For starters, the power that it provided was too alluring, while Martial Apprentices were generally young and inexperienced, and lacking in maturity. The evolution breakthrough gave the Martial Artist a Martial body; a body that had transcended the limits of humanity through Darwinian evolution. It was a dreamlike power that any normal Martial Apprentice would feel an immense amount of greed and lust for. There was the fear that if divulged too early, their greed for this power would warp their Martial Paths to revolve around their body, rather than molding their body to revolve around their Martial Path.

That was why Martial maturity was one of the conditions for Squire candidacy. It was to ensure that the Martial Apprentice had developed their Martial Art to a certain degree and had set it in stone so that an excessive amount of corruption of it due to greed would not occur.

Rui could appreciate this, even though he did believe that he would not have been corrupted regardless.

There was another reason for not disclosing the secret of the breakthrough to the Squire Realm. The breakthrough to the Squire Realm was a man-made way to allow Martial Artists to climb higher Realms. It was not something that could naturally be obtained. Thus it was a way for the Martial Union to ensure that others did not get their hands on it by some young and immature Martial Apprentice spilling the beams by some foreign power like the Commonwealth Duchy of Vinfrana.

He had faith that the Apprentice and Squire instructors of the Martial Academy would take good care of them. He was especially reassured by the fact that Headmaster Aronian was watching over them.

his attention back. "What does it take to become a Martial Squire? Can you tell me? It

his head lightly. He reached out for the top of her head, ruffling her hair a bit. "Focus on your Martial Paths. Grow stronger. Make sure your Martial Paths truly belong to you and not to anybody else. Remember these words,

amount of faith in their older

He had considered explaining the concept of it to them but ultimately decided against it. Individuality in their Martial Path was not such a dire necessity in the

some foundation to come from. These two had not yet mastered a single technique, how could they be expected to create their own techniques? He did not want to burden them with information that they not only could not make use of in the short to medium term but would

the Squire Realm is either, are

certainly not,"

head. "I just want to fight you as a

"Alright,

ten meters away from them, before raising an arm and

of them

towards Rui, Mana reaching him a beat earlier. Her sprint was efficient and

WHOOSH

gracefully as he twirled

had already arrived. His right arm was coiled beside his ribs lashing forward as he

studied Max's form