The Martial Unity

While it was true that half of all nations, states, and groups of humans did not have access to a Martial Squire, or the Squire Realm. Thus from the perspective of humanity as a whole, Martial Squires were not abundant, and thus they were a precious resource to a certain extent.

Yet, to Rui, the Squire Realm was just one of the earliest and lowest checkpoints in his Martial Path and journey. He could never grow super prideful or arrogant on his current level of power when he knew that Martial Seniors could squash him with ease, and Martial Masters were so powerful that they could probably blink him from existence.

He didn't even need to say anything about Martial Sages or Martial Transcendants.

The two of them quickly made their way to the colosseum. Rui focused himself as he ignored the bravado coming from Squire Drekiole.

"You're dead, dead, you hear me?" The man snarled.

"Why are you getting so worked up?" Rui sighed. "It's just a duel. The Floating Sect has prohibited killing, so I'll make sure not to cross that line, don't worry."

The man only barked back louder in response to that.

They finally reached a sparring colosseum that was not being occupied at the moment. The two of them quickly filled out the basic paperwork, and soon enough there was an official arbiter that presided over the match.

"Challenger; Guardian Falken!"

Rui stepped forward.

"Defender; Guardian Drekiole!"

The man stepped forward, eying Rui from top to bottom.

He was a lot older, like almost all Martial Squires were, and a lot taller. Yet he didn't look nearly as old as he was thanks to being a Martial Artist.

mentally younger than

a child, given

stances," The

spread his arms, crouching a

too crouched as he took an open arm

narrowed at the sight

grappler. He was a grappler whose offensive lethality came from the friction that

too small, but he strongly suspected that the man's skin was riddled with spikes that would

He could cause his opponent to bleed out very quickly,

as a guardian, and one that was

and threats and did not get personally

Senior Xanarn's words. He could not cripple the Floating Sect in these circumstances by

just a duel, it was an experiment to measure the effectiveness

"Begin!"

two of them rushed forward, executing a shoot maneuver, immediately crashing into each other as

noticed

his skin peeling off at the points of contact with his

appeared that he had underestimated how painful they would be. The man had straight up ripped up Rui's skin like it was nothing despite his Adamant

skin far greater than what a single passive defensive technique that

because it didn't contain the synergy with his Martial body and Path that techniques

It was a useful passive defensive technique

defense was falling

to pick up the slack as it quickly

bit before

Drekiole looked surprised at Rui, noticing that the wounds that he