The Martial Unity

While Rui was absorbed in his thoughts about the fight, the reactions of the crowd were not nearly as calm and collected.

Everybody was shocked.

Guardian Ieyasu had not challenged anyone ever since he challenged his predecessor, taking his spot as the number one Martial Artist.

He didn't feel the need, there was no one in the Squire Realm above him. He was the target of challenges.

Yet very few people challenged him, he was too powerful, and he showed no mercy. His opponents simply died.

The only one who did challenge him and managed to survive without dying was the second-ranked guardian, formerly the first-ranked.

Yet for some reason, Guardian Ieyasu had gone out of his way to challenge a guardian. Not only that, but the guardian that he did end up challenging was actually a really low-class guardian who was in the tenth class.

Of course, many knew that the truth about guardian Nake wasn't nearly as weak as his rank and class would suggest. It was said that he along with another class-ten guardian had managed to force Senior Xanarn to use a portion of true power as a Martial Senior. Something only guardian Ieyasu had managed to do prior to that.

Many of the lower class Martial Squires did not know that much about the most powerful Martial Squire of the Floating Sect. After all, not all guardians had been there five years ago when he claimed the title and status of the strongest.

Very few actually had a good understanding of what guardian Ieyasu did. Those who had a first-hand account of what he did, had already gained a good understanding of what the motivation behind guardian Ieyasu's actions were.

Nobody dared to blink while Ieyasu and Kane clashed against each other.

They shuffled, dashed, and darted around at incredible speeds!

So much so that many of the low-class Martial Artists were unable to even perceive their movements beyond hazy blurs.

In just the briefest of moments, both Ieyasu executed hundreds and thousands of movements in a matter of seconds. Their speed was so high, that they left after-image clones across the entire battle arena!

Yet the Martial Squires that were able to follow and were qualified to evaluate the battle all quickly came to realize something.

is losing,') Rui

was a matter of just a single beat, but he was decisively inferior

his best to evade Ieyasu's offensive maneuvering, but step by

not help but admire Squirwe Ieyasu's maneuvering prowess. He had sealed off all the other Martial Art that Rui had seen him use and limited himself to the one field where Kane was incredibly powerful, and

could or couldn't, did their best

WHOOSH!

as he barely managed to evade a powerful kick. He was sweating profusely, bruised all over his body as he did his best to avoid all of Squire Ieyasu's attacks with

able to hurt

a strike, or whether he didn't. It was clear that he was

He knew.

could accomplish by himself what had taken the full power of both himself and Rui was not someone he could take on

He knew.

Yet, he didn't.

on a logical level, but only now was he

he was before the might of Tokugawa

felt deeply disturbed every time he looked at the man. His black hair and eyes eerily

that they had in common. They were probably the only two Martial Squires in the

hair and eyes just

his mind as quickly as it had

afford to get

POW POW POW!

Ieyasu blitzed him, landing three swift short

light, lighter than Kane's

the sinking feeling that Ieyasu could have easily killed with just a single strike but chose

it out of kindness? Why even challenge him if he was going to

leaped back, expecting Ieyasu to

didn't

bearings, catching his breath for a moment before gazing back up

at Kane before opening