The Martial Unity

Given that Rui had resolved to clear that floor, he had inadvertently put himself at odds with an extraordinarily powerful creature. Even if the Root of the Dungeon was not quite on par with Martial Seniors, it was still extraordinarily powerful and beyond the limits of the Squire Realm.

Rui already knew that if he simply tossed himself in front of it, he would get smashed like a bug.

Yet, he intended to confront it.

He would rather the latter occur without the former. The only way for that to happen was to grow stronger.

Which meant that it was time for another training phase.

It had been three months since the last training phase that he had undergone to prepare for the Shionel Dungeon. The techniques that he come up with back then had resulted in him dominating the Shionel Dungeon extremely thoroughly, upending the stable deadlock that had existed prior, and uniting a ton of people who would very much like to see him dead as a result.

Rui had confidence in his ability to craft techniques that would allow him to be capable of insane feats. He had strong reason to be confident with his scientific martial arts background, as well as a proven track record of developing highly effective techniques that were game-changing, be it the Hungry Pain technique that fundamentally strengthened the Squire Realm and made them significantly stronger from the very start which was one of the reasons that he was strong despite only having spent less than four years in the Squire realm.

He had opened up an entirely new paradigm of aim in his desire to gain accuracy at huge ranges. Although he hadn't used the technique in a while because of how useless it was within the Shionel Dungeon, it was still a valuable grade-ten

technique allowed him to hit above his paygrade remarkably well, allowing him to launch attacks up to

could negate conventional sensory jamming technology as it operated on principles that he was quite certain was not used in sensory techniques, otherwise there

quite certain that he had a solid chance of being able to cleanly handle the Root's terrifying

fight it head-on, necessarily. He just needed to clear the

not think his regular tactic with him and Kane using Void Step to bypass senses would work. He knew that Void Step only

to work on flora lifeforms like the tree on the sixteenth floor, thus Rui didn't think it would be particularly effective against the Root. Unfortunately for Kane, or fortunately rather, he was going to

technique from scratch, and had only conducted a single major modification as far as Rui was aware. He knew that ordinary Martial Artists could not develop techniques as fast as

many years in the Squire Realm before becoming

However, even before he could begin coming up with templates, concepts, and theoretical frameworks for the techniques that he intended to develop, he needed to come up

time understanding its strengths and weaknesses before he could even think about taking on the giant creature

it was weaker the closer Rui got to it, then Rui would immediately develop a technique that would allow him to close the distance between him and the Root. Or if it turned out to be the case that its vitals were extremely weak, then Rui would work on creating superior versions of the Reverberating

had any hope of clearing the Root floor, that was for