The Martial Unity

The announcement came as a shock to the Floating Sect, many of the guardians were rather startled by this. Given that for more than half a year, the conflict had been restricted to the Squire Realm, the prospect that the war would escalate to the Senior Realm seemed low.

Yet, the Kaddar Treaty Organization had decided that enough was enough and that it was time to finish this once and for all.

This was unnerving to all of the guardians of the Floating Sect because it meant that they were now part of a conflict where their strength was no longer going to be deciding the outcome.

Of course, given that the strongest forces of both sides of the war were at the Senior Realm, it could be said that they never truly were the deciding outcome.

Of course, Rui had not come to learn that Martial Squires was not as irrelevant in battles pertaining to the Senior Realm as he had expected.

The reason for that was because the Martial Heart was the thing that truly separated Martial Seniors from Martial Squires. Without the Martial Heart, their combat prowess would fall off from the Senior Realm and plummet well below.

It was possible for large groups of powerful Martial Squires to make a difference in the outcomes between Martial Seniors.

Or one extremely powerful Martial Squire.

Regardless, it would explain why the Kaddar nations would have liked to mow down the guardians of the Floating Sect.

And it wasn't as though they hadn't been successful about that whatsoever, it was just that although they had mowed down a lot of guardians, they had suffered an even greater loss in exchange. They had suffered tremendously in their efforts to kill the Martial Squires of the Floating Sect.

Squires of the Floating Sect were special, they were the cream of the crop.

to, and to maintain where they had gotten to required a

that it could, it simply couldn't beat the years of filtering initiatives and the refining of guardians. On average, the

compensated for the gap in quality with sheer quantity, throwing seemingly endless waves of Martial

expenditure on maintaining the war effort. The Floating Sect did not have such expenditure, and that was one of the advantages that it

privilege of training at the Floating Sect. The Floating Sect did not have to go above and beyond to bring them over only for

of the reasons that the Kaddar

the war in the Squire Realm was

certainly not at the peak of

home-court advantage. It meant that as long as they fought anywhere above-board the island, the Martial Seniors

that the situation was comforting for a lot of the guardians because it meant that they would have to be too close to Senior-level combat. While all of the guardians were confident about fighting against their peers, it was an entirely different matter when Martial Artists of higher

were changing, but not necessarily for the

learned that the war had escalated to the Senior Realm, he knew that he would probably be called

that Kane and

And he was right.

Seniors, both he and Kane were instructed

think we're in trouble?" Kane asked as the

to reconsider his