The Martial Unity

For the first time in many years, there were no Martial Seniors on the Shadow Isles. They had all been assassinated one after the other, while the rest had chosen to leave the Shadow Isles forever.

Rui heaved a sigh as he glanced around them. The sheer damage that they had spread throughout the battle had been immense, it would take the Shadow Isles a long time to recover from this if it ever did.

Now that he had finally accomplished his goal, he only felt relief.

'Well, I still have some stuff to do.' Rui mused as he activated his Mind Mask. He created the most powerful mask he could, exuding an abysmal amount of power within the Senior Realm as he radiated as much bloodlust as he could.

"AAAAAH!"

"Monster! It's a monster!"

Hoards of people immediately began leaving the island one after the other. Martial Apprentices dove into the ocean, Martial Squires sky-walked away as they mass-abandoned the Shadow Isles. None of them wanted to stick around a place that was so chaotic and dangerous.

It wasn't too long before the Shadow Isles were devoid of Martial Artists entirely.

Rui stood in place, glancing around. 'Now what?'

He wasn't sure what to do now that he had fulfilled his goals to try and pass the Silent Shadow's implicit test.

Perhaps he should just wait around to see if she stops by.

"Meh. I don't have time to waste." Rui shook his head as rose to the sky, reactivating his Martial Heart. A Senior-level aura spread across the island as the glowing redlines streaked across his body from his heart. A surge of power empowered every cell in his body.

"If she isn't here, then I don't want to waste my time." Rui mused. "I'll just confirm it and then leave."

inhaled strongly, causing a brief vacuum of air that deprived the Shadow Isles momentarily, before using his most powerful long-range

an attack that was six times as powerful as his normal Sonic Bullets. It was particularly difficult and even time-consuming, not something that he could use

the trajectory to the island with the pathfinder technique but also accurately stack six sound pulses on top of one another in perfect harmony to achieve constructive superposition and

here, then don't mind if I sink this entire island,' Rui murmured as he gazed down at the

THWOOM

into the most powerful attack that Rui had ever conjured up,

the island, he was sure to destroy it as a result. Truly eliminating everything that stood in the way of not being accepted as

WHOOSH!

attack suddenly disappeared before it hit the island, not leaving so much as a scratch

The voice of

spine as his

shocked by

shocked by what he

couldn't sense anything. He turned his

say you should never meet your idols." Skia Crina remarked. "Perhaps

He stared at her.

his senses could pick up on her. Not even Reimannian Echo could detect her existence,

was as though she

clearly did,

to see that.' Rui narrowed

She murmured as she sized Rui up. "I'm no idol of

it," Rui murmured. "Area Crina...

see." She smirked mischievously. "It's not even that hard to figure out. And yet... not once has a single person confronted me despite many having noticed. They all allowed themselves to get lost in everything Area Crina offered them, never once realizing that they would never

and then sky-walk out of nowhere, you know?"