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.

strange, the breakthrough to the Apprentice Realm was natural, however, the breakthrough to the Squire Realm was artificial and man-made. Then

shaking his head. He didn't feel like that was the case, although he certainly couldn't know

grabbing by the arm before he headed back in the direction

Squire, thus he had quite some time free of defense duties, as per their agreement. Martial Squires were special

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 possessed Martial Squires, and

him that in most places, Martial Squires like himself were 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 with anything

it came to Squire-level nations, he was quite precious

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 only be shown if

he continued

out, it wasn't good to stifle his combat with

to momentarily get away. Although they had agreed not to use it in combat, that didn't apply

THUD

personnel who let him back into the town. "Inform

nonchalantly made his way straight back to the scientific libraries of