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.

predicament, but at the

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

felt from aiding the breakthrough of a Martial Senior, and then proceeding

a smile of satisfaction on his

to speak to Senior Frinjschia, but he would have time for

had to deal

were. The last time Rui

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 from the Panama

openly displayed his appearance in front 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

changing his hair and eye colour were a good final

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

software and it would have been 'GG', as the kids back on

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

and restricted, which is

he was several tens of thousands of kilometers away from the Kandrian Empire. Finding a needle in a haystack was a dream

had paid the price for getting too overconfident in

get the hell out of here as soon as the banquet is

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

interest in potentially provoking powers much greater than

you better be worth all this trouble.' Rui

health check-up was completed seamlessly, they found that his constitution held up a lot more poorly than he looked, due to the Reaper poison.

to meet Master Deivon in a heavily secured

regarded him with silence for