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,

of his appearance had

from aiding the breakthrough of a Martial Senior, and then proceeding to eat a single attack from said Martial Senior. That was arguably the

a smile of satisfaction

to speak to Senior Frinjschia, but he

had to deal

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

have been incognito, or in remote

of such a large audience was nearly a decade ago in the Martial Contest of the Kandrian Empire. He had grown a lot since then, even having gotten a stubble since he had

colour were a good final line of defence for

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

facial recognition software and it would have been

here in the world of Gaia. Digital technology was not only very

more primitive and restricted, which is why libraries

appearance to the identity Rui Quarrier was highly unlikely, especially given that he was several tens of thousands

had paid the price for getting

get the hell out of here as soon as the

the champion not attending the banquet held for his victory was an act

potentially provoking powers much

better be worth

check-up was completed seamlessly, they found that his constitution held up a lot more poorly than he

meet Master Deivon in a

Deivon regarded him with silence for