The Martial Unity

The sheer range and magnitude of the pain-induction ability that the forest had been drowned in was enormous. It was an ability that didn't even seem to belong within the Senior Realm.

'This isn't real!' Rui gritted his teeth as he calmed down. 'I can feel my own body, and there is nothing that could cause this much pain, the damn dragon is casting an illusion of pain by messing with my nervous system!'

It was the dragon's turn to gloat.

And, gloat it did.

"ROOOOOOAAAR!!!" The dragon released an enormous bellow that echoed across the forest. It arrogantly took a moment to pause its hunt as it inspected its work across the entire forest, deeply satisfied by all the creatures that had fallen prey to its ability, before turning to Rui, looking down on him.

It had initially hunted Rui for food, but now it no longer cared about that. Now its main motivation was killing the creature that dared to dishonor its pride.

"ROOOOAAR!" It flapped its mighty wings, rushing down at Rui with its jaws wide open. it would instantly eat him whole in a second, it even planned to undo the illusion so that it could experience Rui's despair and suffering as it chomped down on him.

And yet;

WHOOSH!

Rui sidestepped the charge at the last moment before.

BAM!

powerful blow crashed into the creature's neck, containing more force than the creature had expected from someone as small as Rui. The impact

The creature grimaced

stance before removing his Mind Mask, and unleashing his Senior-level aura, instantly catching the creature off-guard.

immune to the dragon's sensory blackout, it was not entirely sealed. The reason for that was that the Riemannian Echo was not

the fact that the dragon could entirely seal Riemannian Echo, I can logically infer that its illusions are more based on the nervous system or the part of the subconscious parts of the brain that process the input from the

on any sensory organ. It was based on Rui's ability to internally sense his own body, which had not been suppressed since Rui was able to sense himself even though

as long as I have the ability to indirectly sense through the partially

putting the subconscious danger sense of the mind through extreme training, improving its effectiveness and capabilities to an extreme extent. As long as Riemannian

Illusionary Dragon's charges towards him. Yet, that was

sheer force and speed of the physical

And yet;

WHOOSH

himself from the source significantly. And yet, by the time he landed, he felt a

WHOOSH!

done, not by a long shot. Rage filled its prideful eyes as it

BOOM!

as an entire chunk of the forest was instantly leveled. The ground beneath Rui shook and erupted in a

coiled in alarm as he felt a

THWOOM!

jaws, crashing into its throat before it could reach

viable in the long run,' Rui gritted his teeth. 'I can sense danger from the vestiges of environmental information that the suppressed Riemannian Echo supplies me, but I can't sense the layout of my environment. If I leap back to avoid