The Martial Unity

However, Rui changed the game. He had cooked a clever escape plan that allowed them to get away tracelessly. What had been impractical before became quite achievable with his insights.

"How strong do you need to be by the time the protection of the Martial Union runs out?" Kane asked out of the blue.

"…I don't think just being an ordinary Martial Senior is going to cut it, I'm afraid," Rui sighed. "He has more than one Martial Senior on retainer. I need to surpass the Martial Seniors assigned to protect my family. If he happens to get a Martial Master on retainer in the next ten years, then I'll need to be even stronger."

Rui had no illusions about the difficulty of his task. He was going to try and achieve the Senior Realm at what was most likely going to be among the youngest ages at which a Martial Squire has ever become a Martial Senior. But he did not intend on letting that stop him.

He clenched his fist at the thought of how helpless he was when his identity was exposed. It showed him that his success in the Shionel Dungeon was far from true power. They were targeted solutions that possessed an immense amount of affinity with the circumstances of the Shionel Dungeon. The moment he stepped outside of the Shionel Dungeon, he was just another ordinary high-grade Martial Squire. Granted, he could become far stronger if he had an immense amount of time for observation and preparation, but that was meaningless against opponents against whom he didn't have such generous circumstances.

real world, he didn't have such luxuries. Most opponents weren't like the Root, which would sit tight in place, allowing Rui to observe them

obtain the power he had against the Root in general,

only fight between Martial Seniors he had witnessed in his entire life. The sheer amount of power that the two Martial Seniors of the K'ulnen Tribe had displayed was shocking, yet the power that Senior Ceeran had displayed had truly shaken Rui. Up until that point, he hadn't known how strong Martial Artists could get. His understanding of the limits of Martial Art

he was as strong as Senior Ceeran was, he would have much more confidence

to reach that level of power, he would not develop his Martial Art to an incredibly high degree. Thankfully, the Shionel Dungeon had given him a lot of inspiration for many things. The limitations that he had were laid bare against a creature like the Root, although the Void Forestep technique was powerful enough to mitigate the difference between

was to strengthen Martial Art's very foundation. He needed to develop powerful techniques with an immense amount of individuality and affinity with his own Martial body and Martial Art in all fields. At the moment, he had to admit that his Martial Art was probably leaning more towards long-range techniques than it was close-range. The Void Forestep technique was a supplementary

than just the fields that he possessed at the moment. There were plenty of fields of Martial

of that, he felt he was finally ready to upgrade the core of his Martial Art; the VOID algorithm. In the past few years, he had avoided touching the VOID algorithm himself because he didn't feel like he was ready to embark on such an ambitious venture, but he felt that he had matured enough as a Martial Artist

about it. The VOID algorithm was a complicated system of protocols that were centered around advanced statistical techniques and methods and scrupulously detailed and rigorous empirical data collected on the best counters