The Martial Unity

Not a single person was unperturbed.

How could they be?

For they had just witnessed the birth of the new Virodhabhasa Champion, after all.

One moment, everybody was silent.

And the next, the entire colosseum erupted in cheers.

"WOOOOOHOOOO!"

"MY MAN! I knew you could do it!"

"I'm so glad he beat that crazy freak!"

The colosseum released of all sorts and a festive day broke in the Virodha Theocracy.

"And we have a winner, folks! Squire Falken is the seventy-second Virodha Champion!" The commentator exclaimed with bubbling energy. "Stick around to hear what he has to say!"

Rui, on the other hand, simply stared at Meera, offering her a hand.

She sighed for a moment, before accepting it, struggling to get up under her failing body.

Thankfully, a medical team had already been transported to their locations, supplying them with several potions.

"Congratulations on your victory," Meera wished him with a pensive tone.

"Thanks."

Yet Rui didn't seem as pleased as everybody else.

In fact, he seemed quite displeased now that he had actually won the final match and become the Virodha Champion.

fought this battle for the sole hope of gaining the opportunity to activate his Martial

simply stared

out of her by Rui's overwhelming power, but she hadn't forgotten his words. She felt a profound weariness in her heart when she recalled what they were. He was just being honest, but the truth was

she continue training for the Virodha Theocracy?

waiting another two years so that she could participate in the seventy-third

a lot to

her head. "That

Rui tilted his

won, you have to

absurd wager." Rui snorted. "Don't

need you to go to a certain place, and fight

yet her next words

in the Kaddar Region. Squire Tokugawa Ieyasu." She told

at her

your connection with

seventieth Virodhabhasa Contest,"

Deivon told him about the previous champion who defeated Meera, but he had dismissed it as a possibility

Squires across the wide continent, and the probability that the champion was Ieyasu Tokugawa was the

lo and

out that his gut

ask this of me?" Rui raised an

I made him a wager. If I won, he would marry me. That was

his eyebrows "Marriage was

was beautiful,"

she basically fell in love with her own

continue to participate in the Virodha Contest, and send anybody who defeated me his way. He himself went and perched in

eyes widened at

had essentially converted the second-strongest Martial Squire he knew into a scout for powerful Martial Squires and filtered out the good ones, sending them

This way, he didn't need to participate in the Martial Contest each time. He just

for other avenues where strong Martial Squires gathered. Maybe he had scouts all over the place scanning