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.

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

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 he certainly couldn't know at this point

glanced back at the corpse before him grabbing by the

the deal and had killed a Martial Squire, thus he had quite some time free of defense duties, as per their agreement. Martial Squires were special in Squire-level nations, after all, as

was truly an outlier. Based on his experience, half of all nations were only at the Apprentice

He could straight up negotiate with smaller and weaker Apprentice-level nations all by

was quite precious and valued. He was experiencing that with Crexeet town at

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

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 an attack landed. If it didn't then his opponent would not be able

nodded approvingly as he continued back

Kane out, it wasn't good to stifle

able to use Void Step to momentarily get away. Although they had agreed not to use it in combat, that

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who let him back into the town. "Inform the mayor

his way straight back to the scientific