The Martial Unity

The question was whether they would make it in time.

"Argh!" Senior Xanarn collapsed, drenched in blood.

Her balance was unstable, she seemed to be struggling to breathe.

Her bronze skin has taken on a sickly skin tone.

And yet… She did not give up.

She struggled back onto her feet, quivering as she took her stance.

Yet the battle was all but over.

She knew it.

Her four enemies knew it.

Rui and Kane knew it.

And yet…

The moment came sooner than Rui expected.

It happened abruptly.

The skin of the four Martial Seniors returned to normal.

They were all extremely tired and strained, fighting Senior Xanarn on Ajanta Island was truly a herculean task.

Their Martial Hearts had already run out of juice, but that was fine, they no longer needed it against Senior Xanarn in her current condition. Even a Martial Squire could probably kill her in her current condition.

That was why they were relieved.

Overjoyed.

The Floating Sect's defensive prospects were operating on razor-thin margins. The collapse of a single Martial Senior was the end. They were already at the final line.

Senior Xanarn activated another sound-based technique, but it was merely the final resistance of a dying prey, they ignored the fluctuations of her sound-based technique as they prepared to kill her.

It was over.

They were certain.

And it was because they were certain that they were surprised when the poison-oriented Martial Senior's eye exploded.

SPLAT

"…Eh?"

three of them grew alarmed at the sudden

opened her eyes in shock

DRIP DRIP DRIP

of her

sprung onto their faces as they noticed it wasn't just

fluid could clearly be seen mixed

A brain injury.

a moment,

the vaunted reflexes of the Senior Realm availed them as their brains struggled to process the spontaneous events that seemed

his senses immediately swept

when he saw

with a heavily hidden

BOOM!!!

launched the heaviest blow he had

gritted his teeth as did his very best to block the attack, the

up with a shocked expression, looking at his attacker. A young man with silver hair and eyes, with

His bewilderment was palpable.

What just happened?

ago, they were about to kill a Senior guardian of

they were about to win the war

heartbeat of his comrade had stopped due to an inexplicable attack that blasted her through the eye and into her

What happened?

that he saw at the moment? But how did they do that? What

gears

was not easy

of them eyed Rui and Kane

boiled the very air

Martial Squires would have

snorted, his expression crumpled with rage as he

Deeper than ever.

It washed over them.

on end as chills crawled

they came to a shocking

man stammered.

aura could

having constructed the most powerful Mind Mask that

body lighten astronomically as he

WHOOSH!

he almost blurred

fighting incompetent fools. General Dereftar's eyes

POW!

He blocked Rui's attack.

Yet Rui simply grinned.

SPLAT!