The Martial Unity

It was a good fight, Rui took a moment to appreciate the power that his opponent demonstrated.

('He had a mature Martial Art,') Rui mused.

He could feel that his opponent had spent quite some time refining his Martial Art. He had a strong foundation and expanded the effectiveness of his redirection against all kinds of attacks across multiple ranges.

That alone probably took the man about a decade of creating or modifying techniques to possess the necessary individuality needed. That was the estimate that Rui had in mind when he considered how slow the rate of growth of the average Martial Artist was.

Regardless, Rui got the impression that this man was closer to reaching the Senior Realm despite being weaker than Rui.

Rui had not forgotten that the path to the higher Realms was not simply one of power, although power had a correlation.

He had failed to get an opportunity to learn of the exact conditions of the path to the Senior Realm, but as he grew stronger, it was almost as though he could intuitively sense what it could be.

The Senior Realm was a natural phenomenon. This he knew because Senior Ceeran had carelessly let slip in a conversation long ago that he had broken through to the Senior Realm in the middle of combat.

to the Apprentice Realm was natural, however, the breakthrough to the Squire

mean the breakthrough to the Master Realm is also artificial?') Rui wondered, before shaking his head. He didn't feel like that was the case, although

by the arm before he headed back in the direction of

he had quite some time free of defense duties, as per their

travels thus far was that the Kandrian Empire was truly an outlier. Based on his experience, half of all nations were only at the Apprentice level as far as Martial prowess went. The remaining half were nations that

quite precious. He could straight up negotiate with smaller and weaker Apprentice-level nations all by himself as a Martial Squire. It was unfortunate that these nations were simply too weak to provide him

even when it came to Squire-level nations, he was quite precious and valued. He was experiencing that with

virtue of Kane and him being Martial Squires, the mayor had been quite motivated to retain

he spotted Kane. The man was evading attacks from what seemed like a piercing specialist. It wasn't a bad match-up to Kane as the greatest capability of his opponent's Martial Art could

as he continued back to

stifle his combat with

would be able to use Void Step to momentarily get away. Although they had agreed not to use it in combat, that didn't apply when he didn't

THUD

dropped the corpse before the defense personnel who let him back into the

his way straight back to the scientific libraries of the Crexeet research