The Martial Unity

Out of the many Martial Artists who chose to traverse the Great Forest of Hypnonrarak, a solid proportion of them died. What was surprising was that the rate of death of Martial Apprentices, Squires, and Seniors was not nearly as large as one would expect.

Rui felt like he understood why this was the case. Given that the Hypnomaster had created the forest, he assumed that this was an intended outcome.

'Is he trying to equalize the difficulty for all Martial Artists that come to seek him?' Rui wondered. 'Maybe he wanted to make it fairer for Martial Artists of all Realms so he didn't weed out worthy Martial Artists of the Lower Realms.'

He wasn't sure, but that didn't change the challenges that he had to overcome. The journey to the Great Forest of Hypnonarak was long and tedious. Rui had to cross many nations, mountains, forests, seas, and even an ocean as he made his way to the forest.

The forest was in a region of the continent known as the Gereign Region. The Gereign Region used to be a rather lowly populated and rural part of the continent before the Hypnomaster came along and created the forest that served as his abode.

The event completely changed the fate of the Gereign Region, turning it from a place within nothing in the middle of nowhere to one of the biggest supplies of narcotics drugs.

According to the intelligence supplied by the Beggar's Sect, most of the black markets across many nations directly got the supplies they needed from the Gereign Region, which was there were a lot of vested interests.

If not for the fact that the Hypnomaster was said to be a particularly powerful Martial Master who had claimed the entire forest and surrounding region as his domain, Martial Masters would have also been deployed by many forces to enter the forest.

happen was exactly due to the fact that they would be infringing on his domain. While the Martial Master apparently tolerated Martial Artists of the Lower Realms

Rui mused in thought as he revisited the intelligence. 'Finding him may be a challenge, I should probably gather more

badge that Sian had given him in the Derimont Bazaar. It was the only way he had to actually contact the Beggar's Sect without any hassle. He also had

of Hypnonarak, he was sure that whatever missions and operations he was

wasn't entirely averse to

I should have an advantage in the Great Forest of Hypnonarak.' Rui

effects of the forest were unknown to

to figure out that it was most likely to filter out people who didn't have powerful minds or an affinity for mental techniques since his

better chance of clearing the entire forest and reaching his objective. Once he did, he could freely learn mental techniques

was now that he had learned the truth about

not correlate with the Martial Mind. He wasn't sure how much he ought to invest into it now that he learned that they do not further his path to the

correlate with the Martial Mind, that doesn't mean I can't create a system of thought that is centered around

wasn't sure how that would end up looking, but he was confident

in order to develop their Martial Mind. The larger your Martial Art, the more