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.

a predicament, but at the same time, it was almost a

hiding of his appearance had become. It had taxed his resolve

all those 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

about it put a smile of satisfaction

shame that he didn't get to speak to Senior Frinjschia, but he would have time

to deal with

The last time Rui had made a public appearance without any intel suppression

was more than seven years ago. Since then, his missions have been incognito, or in remote isolated locations such as Vilun Island with total information isolation

front of such a large audience was nearly a decade ago in the Martial Contest of the Kandrian Empire.

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

the internet as

countries would have run simple facial recognition software and it would have been 'GG', as the kids back on Earth would

impossible here in the world of Gaia. Digital technology was not only very primitive but also highly resource-intensive

was even more primitive and restricted, which is why libraries still relied on scrolls

of someone tracing his appearance to the 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

had paid the price for

Meera, and then get the hell out of here as soon as the banquet

fact that the champion not attending the

interest in potentially provoking powers much greater than Chairman Deacon. It

be worth all

that his constitution held up a lot more poorly than he looked, due to the Reaper poison. Thankfully, it took

he got to meet Master Deivon in

Deivon regarded him with silence for a