The Martial Unity

Kane had watched the battle with an increasingly bewildered expression. Rui had already caught him off-guard when casually leaped out of Kane's physical contact, and outside of the influence of Void Step. He had almost had a heart attack.

"Wai-"

SLASH

Kane's eyes widened as Rui's blade disappeared and bloodfury rabbits split in half before his eyes. The battle abruptly began as the rabbit immediately pounced on the intruder that came out of nowhere and attacked their herd.

Yet despite swarming him with all their numbers, everything that came within a certain range split in half. It was as though there was a forcefield around Rui that cut anything that dared to cross it.

The domain encompassed by his swinging range ceased to be ordinary space. Instead, it had become a field of carnage, gushing with blood and death.

Kane observed Rui's movements in bewilderment, yet he didn't understand what was happening. Every time Rui inhaled from the pipe and exhaled onto his hapless would-be victims, they froze solid, before his devastating lethality annihilated them. They were entirely powerless.

Rui's face was covered in a malleable mask attached to it, yet Kane could still sense a cold ruthlessness on it. His reactions to the rabbits were excellent, it was almost as though he could see the future and knew exactly where each one was, whenever. His attacks were all proactive, and his blade never rested, whizzing around him smoothly, annihilating anything that came close enough.

did not use any fancy Squire-level sword techniques, but his

the direction of motion of the blade at every given moment, ensuring that there

the moment had taken on the shape of a counter-offensive sword style, a fusion of offensive interception of attacks as well as evasive maneuvering. He engaged in just enough evasive maneuvering not to dodge and avoid attacks, but to put enough distance between himself and his opponent. The sword was generally not a close-quarters weapon and required a bit of distance at close range,

"Unbelievable…" Kane murmured.

SLASH

the final rabbit had been felled.

casually remarked, walking past the death and destruction

wryly. "Were you hurt

models on them was easy due to how uniformly simple their patterns are. They just attack straightforwardly, with the same identical pace the second that they get a chance

described a feat that not even a party of three Martial Squires could accomplish before dying, in such a trivial manner. He realizes that when Rui had assured him that he

taken down a powerful Martial Squire with a single attack on Vilun Island, something that was only restricted to powerful high-grade Martial Squires

ceased to amaze Kane. His faith in Rui being able to fulfill their objective in the Shionel Dungeon only grew after

the city-sized space that was inhabited by even more herds of bloodfury rabbits and esoteric

Kane's hands, reaching out for them, before fiddling with his

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