The Martial Unity

Regardless, he didn't necessarily resist learning more about the Martial Contest.

The contest was limited to the Lower Realms. The difficulty of holding a contest grew astronomically with each Realm.

Martial Apprentices were by far the easiest to hold a contest surrounding due to how grounded and shackled by conventional human limits they were. This meant that important aspects of the planning such as infrastructural constraints, observation viability, spectator safety, battlefield volume, etc., were all much easier to handle. You could have a large number of spectators fit in within a reasonable amount of area that was reasonably close to the battle arena, and they would be able to follow the fight to just barely enough of a degree where they would be entertained. It was possible to shield even a large audience from the Apprentice-level techniques and ensure their safety with ease.

With Martial Squires, that was increasingly more difficult to achieve. Martial Squires fought over increasingly larger ranges, and over larger areas. An ordinary battle arena was not enough for them.

That was why even the battle arenas of the Floating Sect were more than a kilometer in diameter to be able to accommodate all ranges of Martial Squires. Normal humans couldn't even perceive the entirety of such a battle arena at once with their senses. Furthermore, spectator safety was much costlier.

It meant that the number of spectators who could even afford to witness the battle between Martial Squires was limited to wealthier and upper-class connoisseurs of Martial Art.

If the Apprentice-level contest was treated as an event for commoners and middle-class folks, then the Squire-level was for the wealthy.

The Senior-level contest for even more so. It was for the top one percent of society.

simply became far too unviable to be able to

between Realms was capable of an indication of anything, then they were

was most interested in the Squire-level contest out of all three. According to the information provided by the guides that the staff member had supplied him, there were one thousand Virodhabhasa Church towns, just like

number, one that made Rui double-take in

the Virodhabhasa Faith had infested

Bradt did not list all Virodhabhasa Church towns, that would been a redundantly long list.') Rui mused. He was grateful that the man had referred

at the actual contest. This was unexpected as when Rui had partaken

out that while the Martial Union copied the Virodhabhasa Faith but to a much lesser

is going to be far harder than the

champion was would have the capital to be the strongest Martial Squire.

would want to yield a Martial Squire that powerful to anybody else. After all, power as a Martial Squire correlated with synergy between technique, Martial Body, and Martial Path, which came with creating or customizing techniques for one's self, or

especially in a setting like this. It wasn't

for the high-probability crop was the best way to get one's Martial Seniors. Rui learned that much of the audience of the Squire-level contest were scouts or third parties that were interested in buying the most promising

generally traveling nomadic Martial

of spectators every time it