The Martial Unity

He was glad that she was the one who won. She was a more sophisticated fighter than the blockhead who wielded his Martial Body like a caveman. Furthermore, he would rather avoid fighting the Kandrian prince.

He might get into political hot waters if it came to light that a Martial Squire of the Martial Union crushed a Kandrian prince. These kinds of Martial Artists were particularly vulnerable to Rui due to their lack of sophistication. In fact, Rui would need to be extremely careful to ensure that he didn't annihilate the man's Martial Path, or else he would be accused of treason.

He didn't exchange any words with her when she returned. There was time for that later.

"And for the next round, we have Contestant Janeu Meren! A powerful Martial Squire native to the Virodha Theocracy, known as the Fangfeeder! His opponent will be a junior monk of the Daeshun Temple, Contestant Xaesha representing Daeshunism!"

The crowd cheered loudly as a wave of excitement spread through them.

'Oh boy, a religious conflict.' Rui sighed, shaking his head inwardly. 'Because those always went well back on Earth.'

Yet it appeared that the people of the Virodha Theocracy were quite enthused about this matchup. It appeared that they looked forward to a battle between their own representative of the Virodhabhasa Faith versus a representative of Daeshunism.

This was a religion that Rui did not know much about.

Yet the junior monk did indeed resemble what Rui pictured when he imagined monks.

'Maybe Daeshunism was like the Buddhism of this world and the Daeshun Temple is like the Shaolin Temple of this world.' Rui speculated.

He wasn't too interested though. Getting entangled with one religion was enough of a headache for Rui.

It appeared that there was indeed friction between the two of them.

and peaceful Daeshun Temple old man," Squire

on your being," The man emphatically replied. "I shall excise you who has surrendered yourself to

the two of

to look at their stances or their combat style. Squire Janeau had absurdly sharp canines for all his teeth, looking like a mutated beast version

long, curling into razor-sharp claws. Rui could see that he had

glance. However, that did not mean it was weak. It was quite likely that his Martial Body had been adjusted to accommodate such

imagine what kind of conditioning could

quite obvious with the long spear that he held

"Take your stances!"

the most beastly stance that a human could possibly take standing on two legs. Rui was sure that the man would rather have been

and expected stance of a

was unexpected was the weight

was silent,

Janeau resembled a hungry

"Begin!"

grin. His hands turned into claws, one reaching for

already predicted the paradigm of the battle even before it

the spear wielder failed to take him down, or at least ward him away, before

a lethally offensive close-quarters Martial Artist at that range. He needed to ensure that it never got to

that he had no intentions

that Squire Janaeu entered the range of the spear, the spear flashed forward

FLICK!

that Squire Janeau managed to evade that with