The Martial Unity

"I see. Know that you can consider me as someone you can depend on," Master Deivon informed Rui. "I don't know what your circumstances are, but I'm willing to wager I have the power to offer some assistance if the need ever came."

Rui smiled. "I appreciate that. I will be sure to keep it in mind."

He didn't intend to enlist his aid, however. Assassinating an important political figure of the Shionel Confederation was not something Rui could expect him to help with since the Shionel Confederation was a political partner and ally of the Virodha Theocracy.

And that was fine, he had always intended to do the deed himself.

He was actually quite eager to do the deed himself.

Chairman Deacon was one of the few people who could evoke genuine bloodlust from Rui.

Eventually, their conversation came to an end as Rui headed to his assigned training chamber.

Many tens of thousands of people were dying to witness the final tournament with their own two eyes.

The first three rounds were exciting, but ultimately, they were merely a setup for the finale. The eight finalists were eight of the truly most powerful Martial Artists that Squire Realm could possibly offer. They were the cherry on top of the cream of the crop. The best of the best.

The winner had the capital to claim to be the strongest of them all.

"Who do you think will win?"

"It's gotta be Champion Meera."

put my money on

"He's going to lose."

her twice,

are not comparable to actual combat," One

many people had a strong vested interest in witnessing the conclusion

again, he would be forced

organizers simply wanted to milk the drama to get as

and composed, though none

one who seemed immune was Squire Meera, who actually had the audacity to apply

deviant as a Martial Artist, it took one to recognize

noted her incessant obsession with aesthetics, he had long speculated that it was

own subjective sense of aestheticism. It pushed the boundaries of the kind of things that could become a Martial Path. Before this day, he had thought that Martial Paths were limited to fields of combat, they could not be centered around

even Tokugawa Ieyasu or Rui himself broke these rules. Imitative evolution and adaptive evolution

could become a Martial Path showed that there were no strict

probably the reason that she was made a Virodhabhasa

was at its

a low-grade Martial Squire at the moment, but he would be an incompetent fool to even consider that she would perform at that

he could tell, it wasn't that she was trying to actively hide her power like a more stealth-oriented Martial Squire like Kane. It was more likely

no idea how it worked. He had a feeling he would never be able to peer into

weak facade actually made

glanced around at the rest

day one standing among them. He was accurate when he felt like she

Her eyes reflected depth.