The Martial Unity

"Five may be too much," Rui remarked.

"We'll be fine," Kane confidently reassured him. "Between you and me, we can handle them."

"Just to remind you, I'm normally not as strong as I am when facing you," Rui told him. "My power depends on how familiar with my opponents I am. I grow stronger as the battle prolongs."

"Yeah, I know that, if we don't manage to take them down immediately, then we can rely on your adaptive evolution to overcome them," Kane nonchalantly explained.

Kane had grown much more confident ever since he regained his Fulminata technique. Rui often had to hold him back and ensure that he didn't fall prey to his own self-confidence.

Frankly, five was on the very limit of what Rui was willing to tolerate. If not for the fact that the reported squad was comprised of only mid-grade Martial Squires, he would have never agreed to that.

However, the two of them were high-grade Martial Squires at this point. Rui especially had a rock-hard foundation while Kane had powerful trump cards.

"Come on," Rui nodded. "It's time to go."

Because of the speed of Martial Squires, it was a very short time until the Martial Squires would reach the vicinity of Crexeet town. The department of defense mandated that all Martial conflicts were not to occur within a certain radius of the town as much as possible, which meant that Rui and Kane had to move quickly.

The two of them immediately dashed away in the distance as Rui used all of his sensory techniques to track and surveil in order to make sure that they weren't blindsided.

"There they are," Rui narrowed his eyes after he spotted them after merely a minute of travel.

Instinctually, he wasn't threatened by any one of them. The Squire Realm was much wider and broader than the Apprentice Realm.

Squires and mid-grade Martial

quite some distance away. He didn't have the pattern recognition systems of the VOID algorithm helping him

THWOOM!

BAM!!

abdomen, striking him well enough to

the Mighty Flash Roar Blast

know what hit them, literally. The damage inflicted wasn't damning, but it was a great start as the remaining four rapidly moved forward after confirming that their ally was not in a

a much greater necessity, as Rui was nothing short of a high-grade long-range specialist in their eyes. The worst thing that they could was give a

nonetheless welcomed it. The distance between them shortened in seconds, and the battle had begun before they even reached

THWOOM THWOOM

POOW!

two of them promptly avoided them while Rui launched multiple sonic projectiles at them. Avoiding them from that distance was effortless, especially

Rui's chagrin, his enemies had also wisened up with the initial ambush, they paid attention to his motions very carefully, dispersing in random directions the moment Rui gave any sort of indication

which direction they

Squires immediately pounced on

was unsurprised. After all, it was common sense that long-range

WHOOSH!

their attacks connected with him,

from the

TAP TAP TAP!

blindspot as he employed his Lightning Ripple technique to send an electrical current down the nervous

man grimaced as he felt

POW!