The Martial Unity

The disguise technique was quite new, unexplored territory regarding techniques as far as Rui was concerned. The triggering mechanism was something that he had delved into before, but the actual techniques themselves were quite unlike anything Rui had learned before.

He had never heard of a skull-altering disguise technique before. Nor had he heard of disguise techniques that allowed one to completely impersonate another person without any problems.

That was why he was rather certain that most of these principles were probably something that Master Reina had developed herself over her long career as the Silent Shadow.

With such a powerful technique, he couldn't imagine just how many extraordinarily well-protected people she had managed to successfully assassinate. The numbers surely had entered the quintuple digits by this point.

Just thinking about it left Rui in awe.

"Can I ask you something?" He said to her out of the blue.

"Can you?"

"Why did you retire?" Rui wondered. "I doubt it was because your ability had deteriorated and I bet there are countless people who are willing to pay a lot of money to commission your services."

She paused from the book she was reading, glancing back at him. "Well, if you must know, I got bored."

"Is that all?"

try doing something for centuries

but he got the feeling that she was hiding something. Regardless, he didn't pry. If she cared to reveal the truth, she would in time. It wasn't that

he dedicated his

working on two additional techniques. The

he could do something about it on his own. He had even developed his own ideas for

Death's Sympathy was definitely a good idea. Although he could technically use the long-range version at any range, it was impractical at close range due to the time it needed to be launched compared to close-range attacks and the inefficiency of the attack

that long-range attacks generally relied on a medium to inflict attacks through, namely the atmosphere, there was inevitably some proportion

course, the power didn't really matter too much since the whole point of Death's Sympathy was inflicting damage to an extremely vital organ such as the brain, which was so delicate that it did not take much power to

the resonance frequencies needed to bypass exterior defenses and strike an extremely vital

back in the Squire Realm,

BADUMP!

Martial Heart empowered the Martial Art rather than the Martial Body, for it was the Martial Art that

would be empowered by the Martial Heart. Of course, thanks to breathing techniques in passive defensive

this technique, Rui was only

the Martial Heart aided him, increasing the vibration frequency and

VMMMM!

yet loud humming sound arose from the Reverberating Lance as it seemed as though Rui had two right arms that largely overlapped with each other. He glanced up at a target that was uniformly made up of a certain Senior-level alloy, before launching

VMMMM!