The Martial Unity

Rui felt a surge of fear as he failed to comprehend what just happened.

Did teleportation technology actually get invented and mass-produced while he was in the forest?

The only times he had experienced such a thing was with a Martial Master.

His eyes narrowed. "...Do what? Kill a dragon that spent several hours doing its best torment and try to kill me?"

"Precisely." A voice behind him replied.

Rui leaped away as he turned around, facing a man with a long flowing beard. It took him no more than microseconds to evaluate the man's power.

'Martial Master... so it's him.' Rui stared at him with caution as well as the unconscious dragon behind him. "That creature is extraordinarily persevering and hates me with venomous intensity. It's a threat to me if I don't kill it."

"Not unless I wiped out its memories of the past day while I froze time," The man remarked.

Rui's eyes widened with shock at the man's words. "Wiped out memories...? Froze time...?"

"For you, anyway," The elderly man replied as he peered at Rui. "You would be surprised how susceptible the mind's perception of time is to external influences."

Rui contained his surprise as he stared at the Martial Master with awe and shock. "You are..."

"Zeamer Ger-Vil, at your service," The elderly man replied apathetically, before glancing at Rui. "Still, another male, eh? Shame."

Rui tilted his head in confusion.

male, and now you are too.

to say. His impression of the mighty Hypnomaster

in his eyes. "Already spent a little under three years as a Martial Senior at the of twenty six eh? And a mind

stared

far, and persevered this long." The man remarked, before glancing at a badge on his Martial Art attire. "Not to mention, you're Reina's pupil too. Tsk tsk, you went to her before you came to me? Are

closer geographically." Rui insisted, before balling a fist and bringing it to his palm in

interesting," He shrugged. "You're male so you

as he stared at

drives you? You're obviously not an assassin, yet you sought Reina's tutelage, that means you seek to kill someone, right? Someone powerful too. Go on,

the idea that he had frozen time for Rui. He folded his legs, resting his head on his hands as

Rui

acceptance criteria," The man shrugged. "So what's it going to be? Privacy? Or my

at

contained his displeasure as he stared at the man. "How do I know I can trust

shrugged. "If your story is interesting, I'll accept you

clenched his fists as he tangled with the ultimatum that the Martial Master offered.

man guffawed. "Well, that's not a bad start.

If Rui did not fulfill

particularly high. This was based on the personality profile that he had already

lie," The man warned. "You cannot deceive me,

highly desirable. The fact that he had the ability to freeze people's perception of time, and could wipe out

afford to miss this opportunity. He heaved

tell you the most

it!" The elderly man laughed.