The Martial Unity

Rui immediately got to work with the three Hypnomatrix projects. He excitedly accessed all the stored data in the Mind Palace.

This was the first Martial Embodiment that he had seen since becoming a Martial Senior. And the enhanced senses of the Senior Realm allowed him to understand the illusion better, even if it was inside his mind.

It affected all of his senses. He could see, hear, feel, smell, and even taste the Martial Embodiment. Furthermore, it extended to his sensory techniques as well.

Seismic Mapping detected an Earthquake of Richter ten magnitude.

Tempestuous Feel detected a hurricane that swallowed a small country.

Primordial Instinct had rung alarm bells through a megaphone in his mind, constantly screaming at him about the danger.

Much to his surprise, not even Riemannian Echo was immune to such an effect, a passive illusion so powerful that it could affect an indirect sense of space was quite impressive.

the Martial Embodiment as he began refining the image that he had built in his mind. He could already tell that it would do well to replace the image of Master Uma

him in awe. The output that Martial Masters was so high that they dwarfed even the sheer destructive power of Martial Seniors, who in turn had the power to alter terrain to a small extent, and

and Master Zeamer. They did not possess an additional source of physical power like the Martial Heart, so one

did. Not by a small margin either. It was something that Rui hadn't entirely understood until

normal circumstances due to sheer control over their power.' Rui narrowed his eyes. 'Furthermore, the Master Realm is the

Everything clicked.

efficiency.' Rui realized. 'The reason that Martial Apprentices are extremely superhuman despite physiologically being human, they maximize the

generated hundreds of joules of energy at its highest output. Mechanically, this was enough to shatter rocks, on paper at least. Yet due to mechanical and thermodynamic inefficiency, as well as structural deficiencies, humans were unable to shatter rocks. Only one percent of the total power generated by the human body actually made it to the target of

control over their bodies with the extra cognition from the untapped potential in the brain, allowing them to not only be more efficient with their movements but also develop much greater muscle memory

potential generated by the human body on a regular

Martial Masters must be doing the exact same thing with the Martial Heart!' Rui realized. 'It's the Upper Realm version of the Apprentice Realm, thus Martial Masters do for the Martial Heart and the Martial Body what Martial

their output far surpassed Martial Seniors. They made astronomically better use of the same power than Martial Masters did.

souls harmonize with the flow of the universe.' Rui mused. 'He had demonstrated just how

and skill that Rui was far away from. And yet it was only the first step within the Upper Realms. Just how much further could one go? He didn't