The Martial Unity

A small ripple spread through the lower classes of guardians of the Floating Sect. In hindsight, everybody was certainly aware of the ways of scavenger guardians. It had become evident to everybody that Rui had become their target from the moment he was challenged by Squire Drevolus.

Rui came to learn that this pattern had occurred multiple times in the past. The man in question, guardian Seronin, had slowly climbed up, chamber by chamber. Furthermore, Rui learned that he always had an offensive Martial Squire and a defensive Martial Squire fight his target, recruiting weaker Martial Artists and promising to help them reach higher chambers in exchange.

Essentially, Guardian Drevolus and Fzartil were being treated as crutches to help him become stronger than he normally was.

The more Rui heard, the more disgusted he became. It was gross to him looking at someone with a Martial Art in the same field being so pathetic that he needed to go through such a song and dance just to fight a duel. The idea that the man was so insecure in his Martial Art that he did not feel the confidence to win even a single simple duel against anybody, as well as the fact that he would go through such means to try and secure victory was almost offensive to Rui.

He noticed his reaction was definitely leaning towards exaggerated, but apparently, he was touchy when it came to matters surrounding his Martial Path, clearly. Just thinking about the fact that this man had an adaptive Martial Art like him irritated him a lot.

Normally, Rui would not have been too invested in a duel against a guardian of a lower chamber. But in the next ten days, he tempered his mind and body, preparing for the duel. He wanted to ensure that there was absolutely no chance of him losing the duel to guardian Seronin.

"Aren't you taking this too seriously?" Kane scratched his head as he came across Rui meditating under increased pressure.

"Perhaps," Rui murmured as he opened his eyes. "However, it isn't as though there are no stakes at all whatsoever. I will lose my chamber if I lose. I don't to grow relaxed."

you're going to kill the guy," Kane remarked. "Not that that's an issue. That dickhead can die for all I care, but relax

was right, he did feel a little stressed recently. Although his drive to become stronger most certainly grew ever since

was definitely a negative. But he hadn't even noticed it thus

Just that simple gesture alone made him

these that he appreciated Kane's cool simplicity.

change Rui's thoughts on the matchup. He did not intend to hold back

eye as the allotted time for the duel

two of them entered the colosseum. "There

Rui glanced around the

his little tactics had spread. Rui getting the nine hundred and first chamber in the first place directly as an initiate was quite

tactics that did not translate to real strength. If he did end up beating Rui, he would be above ninety-nine other such Martial Squires, many of whom were

beat me, he's going to get swarmed with challenges from these disgruntles Martial Squires

way, it was a lose-lose for him. There was no way he was going