The Martial Unity

"I'm just inquiring," Rui raised his arms lightly. "I have no intention of pressuring you at all."

"It's taking time because you want such a bizarre esoteric like Tethered Bellhorn Steel," The man scowled. "Why on Earth would you want such a heavy esoteric alloy to fashion the blade out of?"

Rui smiled. "Everyone has their necessities."

"Any why on Earth do you want a scabbard that cools it?" The man furrowed his eyebrows. "That does not help in battle!"

Rui didn't even bother gracing that with a reply, simply smiling instead.

The man sighed exaggeratedly before shrugging. "Whatever, you're paying a huge amount of money, so it's fine I guess. There are all kinds of strange people in the world."

Rui did not mind being perceived that way. He was not going to genuinely inform the man what his intentions were, after all.

very thoroughly, going beyond just the information that Julian had provided him. He had found great detail on several phenomena and chemical reactions involving the Shionel esoteric substances

now-dissolved small private research institute in the Kandrian Empire, detailing a series of experiments between one of the ubiquitous Shionel esoteric compound Whitemane Dust and a rarer esoteric alloy known as Tethered Bellhorn Steel. The experiment revealed that a reaction between the two compounds in their natural states at low temperatures caused a violent exothermic reaction where the Whitemane Dust exhibited extreme phobic tendencies towards cooled Tethered

away with such force that it breached the safety measures and the barrier between the observation lab and the

this after six weeks of scouring scientific literature for additional information beyond what he

solution that he sought wasn't within

six weeks aggressively inputting, processing, and assimilating all the

grinned when he came across

esoteric confirmed to have been present in the epithelial and blood of all of the species existing in

of cooled Tethered Bellhorn Steel pierces their flesh that is saturated

the Whitemane Dust in the flesh and blood of the monster, causing the latter to blow apart from it violently and magnifying the size

Rui strongly suspected that even a single swing would be enough to cause a lethal wound and a vast amount of internal injuries. It

smiled mischievously inwardly. ('Which means the full power

working on expanding the scope of the Adaptive Evolution model by incorporating simplistic sword-based

Dungeon and had formed basic adaptations to