The Martial Unity

"Woah..." Rui murmured as the world around him suddenly changed. "Handy technique."

He glanced around, immediately noting the medical nature of the room that he was in.

It was clearly a hospital.

A medical team entered the room soon enough, comprising of a doctor and several nurses.

"Contestant Falken," The lead doctor smiled. "I am Doctor Veena. I have been instructed by Master Deivon to conduct a thorough evaluation of your health status."

Rui realized that Master Deivon was probably paranoid that Rui was either not as good as he looked, or had paid some price to heal the damage that Senior Frinjschia had inflicted.

'Well, he's not wrong.' Rui nodded. "Ok."

"Please wear this," She smiled, handing him a patient garb.

It was only then that he realized he was fully naked all this time, in front of an all-female staff.

"Master Deivon has also instructed me to provide you with this," She supplied him with a mask that resembled his previous one with Master-level anti-sensory esoteric compounds.

Rui was grateful that Master Deivon noticed how much Rui cared about protecting his appearance and catered to it. He was just afraid that it was not as useful as before.

'Thankfully ordinary people would have been too far to make out the details of my appearance. But the Martial Artists, barring Apprentices, will have gotten a good look at myface.' Rui sighed.

but at the same time, it was almost

he hadn't realized how much of a psychological burden the constant hiding of his appearance had become. It had taxed

people had felt therapeutic. This was also in addition to the satisfaction he felt from aiding the breakthrough of a Martial Senior, and then proceeding to eat a single attack from said Martial Senior. That was arguably the greatest accomplishment of his life as far as sheer

about it put a smile of

a shame that he didn't get to speak to Senior Frinjschia, but

deal with the

he didn't even know what the consequences were. The last time Rui had made a public appearance without any intel suppression was

have been incognito, or in remote isolated locations such as Vilun Island with total information isolation from the Panama

ago in the Martial Contest of the Kandrian Empire. He had grown

measures of changing his hair and eye colour were a good final line of defence

prevalent. Had this been Earth, his image would have been all over the internet as articles, news segments, YouTube videos, and threads on

and it would have

the world of Gaia. Digital technology was not only very primitive but also highly resource-intensive and required a regular supply of valuable

more primitive and restricted, which is why

identity Rui Quarrier was highly unlikely, especially given that he was several tens of thousands of kilometers away from the Kandrian Empire. Finding a needle in a haystack was a dream job

for getting too overconfident in the Shionel

of here as soon as the banquet is over.'

fact, he would have run as soon as he fought Meera, if not for the fact that the champion not attending the banquet held

no interest in potentially provoking powers much greater than Chairman Deacon. It was too

you better be worth all

up a lot more poorly than he looked, due to the Reaper poison. Thankfully, it took several potions

to meet Master Deivon in a

him with silence for a