The Martial Unity

Max and Mana felt a little strange with all the stares at them. Ever since their names had been called out when they were assigned their dormitories, a lot of the other students had been staring at them with amazement and awe, whispering to each other.

"I heard that they're HIS siblings…"

"Do you think that maybe they'd let us meet him…?"

"Uhm, why is everyone staring at us and whispering?" Max scratched his head feeling awkward.

"Because they heard our last name," Mana sighed.

She had already realized that this was coming based on the experience of the induction ceremony, thus she had been more composed.

The two of them quickly headed to their dormitories, before unpacking their things.

"Er, what should we do now?"

"We have a mandatory sparring session with the combat Squire instructor," Mana replied as she went through their schedule.

"Right, what was her name, again?"

"Squire Kyrie…" Mana replied. "She's been teaching in this academy for nearly fifteen years. They say she was one of the top Martial Squires in this town back in her prime. They called her the Berzerker of Hajin."

"I remember big brother telling us about her," Max nodded, before grinning. "He said she was very strong! He said that he couldn't beat her even after he became a Martial Squire."

replied as she went through the rulebook of the Martial Academy. "Come on, we should get going for the sparring session already. We don't want to

changed into their sparring

Martial Apprentices, either sparring with each other

presence at the center of the facility, overseeing

down on the minds of all Martial Apprentices, including them. They instinctively felt that she was, at the very least, as strong as their brother, perhaps even stronger. Her aura oozed with the grizzled confidence that came with a lifetime

sizing them up the second she laid her narrowed eyes on them. "Max and

two of them bowed deeply. "We look forward

the center ring," She instructed

enough, the two of them entered the large spacious ring along with nine

stares of all the other Martial Apprentices, to the best of their abilities, yet there was one that refused to look

petite girl looked at them oddly with intense eyes and a surprised

eyes widened as they recognized. "You… were the one who beat us in last year's

was about to open her mouth to address them

"From now until the end of this

wave of pressure descended on all of the Martial

their best to maintain their pressure. Rui always hid his mental pressure with the Mind Mask because he disliked the mixed looks of awe and fear that he got from everybody in the vicinity, especially because

he didn't was when he was training their mental

clear that Squire Kyrie had no intention of

oppressing their

leave this ring," Squire Kyrie

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long time that I have been

one Martial Apprentice who forced me to go