The Martial Unity

Rui gritted his teeth as he repositioned his mangled body and closed off wounds with other parts of his body, preventing blood loss from debilitating him any further. Final Breathing minimized his energy and nutrition requirements, giving a bit of ammunition to his evolved healing factor, which furiously began working again to prevent his body from tending toward death.

Wounds clotted soon after, as his healing factor began focusing on stabilizing the most vital organs.

If even a single one of them failed, the probability of death rose exponentially. The bones, muscles, and damaged flesh were less important compared to them, and far down the list of priorities that his body had at the moment.

Fortunately, a trend of positive developments had slowly begun. It took an hour, but slowly, his internal organ systems had reached a point where they wouldn't plummet any time soon.

Soon, his healing factor began focusing on secondary interests as it began the healing of flesh, bones, and muscles.

Unfortunately, the degree to which they had been damaged was beyond the abilities of even his evolved healing factor. He would not be able to heal completely with it alone.

However, what he really needed was to gain enough stability, and control to ensure that he could regain the ability to operate his dimensional ring and summon his healing potion.

That took much longer. His healing factor was good at performing the most essential of first aid rather swiftly, but more healing required more time.

It wasn't three hours after initially falling out that he finally tried to reach for his dimensional ring.

The very effort of the action caused him blinding pain. He felt as though he couldn't even think, of how much it hurt to move.

WOOP

to operate his dimensional ring

to the ground underneath his hand. He wasn't concerned with the potion breaking, but bringing the vial

CLICK

the potion coursing through his blood as he took

normal, he wasn't fixed in a few seconds. Despite working alongside his normal healing factor, it

painful as his bones were pushed back into

to get up, feeling extremely weak. He had abused the Forestep technique, which meant that he had shed a lot of body mass. His healing had almost no ammunition and instead

body had become much thinner as

Which he was.

as he struggled to

that he wouldn't be surprised if even a Martial Apprentice could

facing the Root. Although he could still sense it with Riemannian Echo, he hadn't had time to care about the Root when his own body was failing, approaching death. It was only now that he finally could afford to pay attention to anything

wasn't

he shrugged weakly. "That actually worked.

power. It was absolutely impossible. But if he could get the Root to hurt itself, then that would solve everything. But, of course,

he had

was possible to direct the roots towards himself, but hit his opponent instead. It sounded absurd, but became