The Martial Unity

The Shionel Confederation exposed Rui to the powerhouses of the Squire Realm across the east side of the Panam Continent. He had thoroughly memorized the sensation of Martial Artists of various grades.

That was he could tell that Squire Veelioen was a grade-nine Martial Squire, and a particularly formidable one. He probably wasn't that far from being considered grade-ten, and the difference between genuine grade-ten Martial Squires wasn't large enough to allow them to dominate him in a fight.

He exuded a calm sense of power and security in his mannerisms, Rui was quite curious to see him fight, heck, he'd like to fight him as well.

Given that he was the guardian of the thirty-sixth chamber, it meant that there were thirty-five Martial Squires that were stronger than him. With such a number, Rui had no doubt that the top Martial Squires undoubtedly were grade-ten Martial Squires.

Rui had already decided to start off with the lower end of the spectrum before moving up to higher chambers in his time in the Floating Sect.

With that aside, he quickly skimmed through the additional information provided in the book.

"Oh…? Duels will occur under standard gravitational and atmospheric standards, it seems" Rui raised an eyebrow. "That's interesting."

Rui was surprised, he had thought that the battles would occur under normal circumstances, but apparently, he was wrong.

In hindsight though, it made sense. The entire world experienced normal air pressure and gravitation, it made no sense to train to battle in an environment that simply did not exist almost anywhere else in the world.

conditions in order to make sure they never grew to become unaccustomed to

that guardians would undoubtedly have if a battle ensued under the extreme conditions of Ajanta

under these conditions, would undoubtedly be very familiar with

under normal circumstances, he

if they haven't accepted a challenge in the prior ten days…" Rui murmured as he read through the rules with interest. "So

their chamber by refusing all challenges. However, it also ensured that they weren't bombarded with challenges, being forced to fight once every ten days was just the right frequency to keep guardians on

Martial Artists came to the floating Ajanta Island to train, if that purpose could not be accomplished then there was no point in

guardians received the most challenges for the same reason that Rui chose to go with the lower classes. If they were not allowed to ever refuse a challenge,

don't have to die if they lose a match in a

the guardians. It was to ensure that they were never too scared to challenge and risk

of death in duels between guardians at this stage incentivized them to challenge higher-class guardians for their chamber, ensuring that no

there was most likely a constant reshuffling and updating of the ranks of guardians through the

was most likely extremely meritocratic and an updated ranking of

lit up in interest. "It seems as though all challenges are publically viewable. That does benefit

for guardians as well when he considered the fact that guardians could

your opponents before challenging them," Rui

a lot more. He elevated his effective power by several grades depending on how intimately he was aware of his

recognition systems to build robust predictive models ahead of time in order to gain a level of strength he didn't have due to