The Martial Unity

The difficulty of the task was much greater than if the forest was merely two-dimensional. But alas, it was not to be that easy. He definitely understood that this was a feature of the challenge, not a flaw.

In order to find the Hypnomaster, one needed to possess a powerful mind, or one needed to possess extraordinary perseverance and determination. In both cases, there was a good chance that the Hypnomaster would accept them based on those traits, so it made sense that there was a challenge the key to which were such traits.

Rui didn't spend too much time dwelling on too many thoughts despite how out of character that was for him. Thought consumed mental energy and within the Great Forest of Hypnonarak, mental energy was a precious and vital resource that dwindled by the second.

He forged on forward heading deeper and deeper into the forest. At this point, his senses had long lost their ability to determine which direction he was walking on. The worst part was that compasses also seemed to malfunction in the forest due to the electromagnetic disorientation caused by the same phenomenon that caused bioelectrical suppression.

Yet he knew which direction he was walking in thanks to documenting his travel in his Mind Palace. The biggest hurdle that Martial Artists were seeking to travel deeper into the forest was maintaining geographic and directional awareness.

Once these two key things were lost, the bad stuff followed after. Getting lost meant that the probability of returning home before your mind was drained was low, and this was the reason that most missing Martial Artists did not return.

Rui had greatly improved his chances of survival by cleanly avoiding this pitfall. Not only did he have several rejuvenation potions that he could use in an emergency, but he also knew where he was relative to the human domain of the Gereign Region and the forest as a whole.

'Hm?' Rui narrowed his eyes as something entered his senses. He froze, growing alert as he tried to figure out what it was.

"Hel..." The figure uttered at it stepped into Rui's sensory field.

him. Flowers had begun growing from every inch

man's mouth opened, yet his body collapsed

had not disappointed and he even knew what

Rui murmured as he sky-walked to a certain altitude, rising high as he got a good look at what

flowers greeted his eyes. It drew an immense amount of joy from him, such that he almost

sort of evolved passive hypnotism or is there some odorless airborne substance that makes it extremely difficult to draw away my

weren't the only thing that caught his eye. There were numerous corpses scattered across the Garden of Nightmares, each of them had flowers growing out

that along with his resistance to its strange effect on the mind and he managed to steer clear of

like about the Great Forest of Hypnonarak was that the forest attacked Martial Artists in ways that they were

as the actual attack itself. They were generally

nearly all kinds of Martial Artists. Unfortunately,

true even for Rui, he had only been truly hit with offensive mental techniques

an environment that was infested with such things was too drastic a transition for most Martial Artists. That was the reason that there were so many ways in which

fact that Rui had an edge in this aspect, he wasn't too sure that he wouldn't have fallen for the various sprung traps even with