The Martial Unity

He didn't know how long the battle would continue, or who would emerge victorious, but he did know that if Master Deivon fell too quickly, it was game over. Martial Masters operated in a different dimension of speed and cognition.

Master Deivon had traveled the distance between the Virodha Theocracy and the Seonmun town in less than half a day, a distance that Rui would take weeks to travel.

That meant that he needed Master Deivon to stall Master Uma for quite some time if he wanted to have any chance of getting away. He had already known that Martial Masters possessed sensory ability that was extremely powerful. Their senses were to Martial Seniors what the latter's were to Martial Squires. They were two orders of magnitude higher than Rui, at bare minimum.

The combination of their speed and their senses meant that running away and hiding from them was essentially impossible for Martial Squires unless they had an enormous headstart.

Rui was worried that even a day's headstart would not be enough. She could cover that distance in less than half an hour.

'I just need to have faith in Master Deivon.' Rui gritted his teeth, clenching his fist. "Damn it. Damn it all."

He hated everything about what had just happened.

He was running away.

Again.

All because he was too weak.

So what if he was the strongest Martial Squire? So what if he was the Virodha Champion?

Those titles were worthless.

They simply meant that he was a larger ant than the rest of his peers.

was an ant

He hated it.

hated every second of

forced to leave behind people he cared for because

He hated his inability.

He hated his insignificance.

His eyes blazed

the way

fact, at that moment, he

realized that Project Water was

of

This was not Earth.

This was Gaia.

with violence and war, the weak had no right to pursue such lofty ambitions.

to protect myself, my family. If I actually want to fulfill an ambition

in his body roared in agreement as he pushed himself

into action as he rigorously analyzed the most optimal course of

a mindless action of fear and panic. But to Rui, it

was to get out of this predicament

of action that maximizes the probability of not getting caught by Master Uma regardless of how long Master Deivon manages to stall her.' He sharply analyzed. 'That requires not ever being in the same vicinity as her, since she will be able to distinguish me as a Martial Squire even with a Mind

proximity to Rui. Thus it stood to reason that Martial Masters

the possibility that they could sense it

that they can sense abnormal mental phenomena within a radius of a kilometer or so stands to

to that, but it was also true that when they did sense the Martial Path cracking, they were already focusing on Squire Ran since their fight was ensuing. That likely made it

that condition set, I need to maximize ways to ensure that she doesn't identify my either through mental means