The Martial Unity

Of course, regardless of whether that was true, regardless of what the conspiracy behind the religion was, the woman standing before Rui was certainly not a nefarious conspirator. She was probably a native who had been born and brought up in the Seonmun Church town and had been indoctrinated into the Virodhabhasa Faith their entire lives.

She probably believed that she was doing something that was truly good.

"This holy book, the Virodhaveda, was written by a Martial Transcendent?" Rui asked, trying to hide the skepticism in his voice in order to avoid pissing anybody off.

"Indeed," She smiled, regarding the book that she had passed on to Rui with a reverential expression. "If is said that two hundred and fifty years ago, when the Astral Sovereign reached the Transcendent Realm, he received a prophesy from the very world itself."

Rui narrowed his eyes.

"He received Divine Revelation that warned him of a cataclysm that would consume the very foundation of the world," Her voice quivered. "One that would erase all life across all dimensions of this beautiful world. One that no ordinary force could possibly halt."

Rui furrowed his eyebrows as he watched the elderly woman grow emotional, choking up as her eyes teared up.

This woman was beyond help, she was so heavily indoctrinated that her religion had taken a deep hold of her and her emotions.

"As the Martial Transcendent despaired, the Divine Revelation revealed that not everything was lost," Her plummeting emotions suddenly took a turn for the better as she began smiling again. "The Divine Revelation spoke of a savior. One unlike any other the world had ever seen."

Rui's eyebrow rose as the woman expressed pure blissful devotion.

She did not entertain, for even a second, that she might have been wrong.

No.

being. A being who obtained power from another world. A being born in another world, a being that came from

eyes widened in

to dismiss her words as religious delusion. It was all too easy, after all. Many religions made supernatural empirical claims of all kinds. Most of them were wacky and

Rui wasn't able to dismiss

Not at all.

could he possibly scoff at the notion of a being emerging from another world when he himself was a being from

were other worlds out there either in this universe or another, and he knew that

shred of understanding or insight into how his reincarnation

why he couldn't

the delusional indoctrinated woman spouted what a

Martial Artist. Yet no ordinary Martial Artist. A Martial Artist said to possess unprecedented power. Power,

moment to bring her hands together in prayer as she muttered a few chants

know what Virodhabhasa means, young man?" She

"…I'm afraid not."

loving tone. "It means 'antithesis'. The Virodhabhasa is a being with a Martial Art that is said to be the antithesis of all forces in the universe! It is the harbinger of destruction to all Martial Art, monsters, and weapons in the world! A Martial Art said to be the anti-existence

again Rui's turn to become

claims she made, to any rational being, were ones that could easily be dismissed as the nonsense of religious

Rui could not

achieve with Project Water. If he made fun of that Martial Art as something that was impossible, would he not be insulting Project Water and his idol Bruce