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!

into the creature's neck, containing more force than the creature had expected from someone as small as Rui. The impact permeated deep, passing through the outer scales, and

The creature grimaced in

Rui took a neutral stance before removing his Mind Mask, and unleashing his Senior-level aura, instantly

dead had he not created Riemannian Echo. While the technique had not been immune to the dragon's sensory blackout, it was not entirely sealed. The reason for that was that the Riemannian Echo was not connected

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

It was based on Rui's ability to internally sense his own body, which

the ability to indirectly sense through the partially functioning Riemannian Echo, Primordial Instinct will be able to function as well.'

sense of the mind through extreme training, improving its effectiveness and capabilities to an extreme

Dragon's charges towards him. Yet, that was all he

sheer force and speed of the physical

And yet;

WHOOSH

the source significantly. And yet, by the time

WHOOSH!

Rage filled its prideful eyes as it raised

BOOM!

crater the size of a hill emerged as an entire chunk of the forest was instantly leveled. The ground beneath Rui shook and erupted in a volatile manner, throwing him off the ground

alarm as he felt a spike of danger

THWOOM!

pain as a powerful sound projectile flew into its wide-open jaws, crashing into its throat before

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 an attack and there's a