The Martial Unity

"Ugh…" Rui groaned, opening his eyes slowly.

A white ceiling immediately greeted his blurred vision. Other sensations began returning to his body by the second.

Pain.

"Ugh…" He grimaced as he felt it.

It felt as though every cell on his body was on fire. His muscles ached, his bones screamed, and his flesh was burning.

('Note… Never ever do that again.') He sighed.

He had not expected that the backlash would be so overwhelming, he did expect to be crippled momentarily, but a preliminary scan of his body with his senses revealed that his condition was far more dire than he had expected.

He had actually nearly died.

He had already told Kane to carry a high-grade potion with him and to be ready to administer it to Rui at any moment. After all, this was not something that he could afford to play around. Kane had acquired the best healing potion that the sect had to offer, under the authority of the three Martial Seniors.

However, it appeared that not even that potion was enough to overcome the sheer severity of the condition that he had inflicted upon himself.

In exchange, however, he got to wield power that could only be stopped by a full-fledged Martial Senior wielding the power of the Martial Heart. Nothing else could stop him for that half minute.

He was so strong that he could easily fight multiple Martial Seniors without their Martial Heart and even dominate them for that timespan.

He could imagine what the three Martial Seniors that he fought off thought about him. There was no doubt that they thought he was a Martial Senior, and a particularly powerful one at that, on par as a threat with the other three.

('…That was the plan, after all.')

the Mind Mask as a way to masquerade as a Martial Senior was to convince

had stressed the ODA System to the absolute limit to nail Senior Ferin's eyeball with the most powerful

a Martial Senior could block such

behind the sonic fluctuations of Senior Xanarn's technique. That was

perfectly to disguise the activation of his technique from afar under

managed to

The result?

that nobody could ever fathom a Martial Squire was capable of made them not

not even enter their minds as

didn't have enough data to predict the exact result, but

He heard a nurse addressing him as she approached. "You're awake, that's highly optimistic. How do you

bad?"

on the table. You have been asleep for three days. However, now that you have woken up, there are no more risks. Your

"Sheesh," Rui muttered.

help but feel nostalgic all the way back to his days in the Martial Academy. He had been hospitalized

do not push yourself," She insisted. "You need rest, more

bad his condition

at once was now something that he reserved as a forbidden

That made him chuckle.

he would actually have a 'forbidden technique', like this was some kind of action

his head, putting aside such silly

happened?" Rui

then there was no doubt that a lot had

"They will brief

felt that there was

room with a melancholic smile on his face. "I'm glad you're okay. We were truly