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?"

something for centuries and

feeling that she was hiding something. Regardless, he didn't pry. If she

passed as he dedicated

the disguise technique, he was also working on two additional techniques. The misdirection technique and the close-range

that he could do something about it on his own. He

he could technically use the long-range version at any range, it was impractical at close range due to

and less powerful. The reason for that was the fact that long-range attacks generally relied on a medium to inflict attacks through, namely the atmosphere, there was inevitably some proportion of energy loss from

this case, of 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

on Reverberating Lance to generate the resonance

to generate sound back in the Squire Realm, but he hadn't tried doing

BADUMP!

Martial Heart. An immense wave of power encompassed his entire body, invigorating all of it. The Martial Heart empowered the Martial Art rather than the Martial Body, for it was the Martial Art that actually unearths the Martial Heart and squeezes out the potential energy from

the Martial Heart. Of course, thanks to breathing techniques in passive defensive techniques, the entirety of

this technique, Rui was

Heart aided him, increasing the vibration frequency and the oscillating

VMMMM!

as though Rui had two right arms that largely overlapped

VMMMM!