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.

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 that he had developed. It was just that much more eye-drawing,

had experienced from the two Martial Masters left him in awe. The output that Martial Masters was so high that they dwarfed even the sheer destructive power of Martial

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

Not by a small margin either. It was something that Rui

to sheer control over their power.' Rui

Everything clicked.

Martial Apprentices are extremely superhuman despite physiologically being human, they maximize

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

be more efficient with their movements but also develop much greater muscle memory than before. Furthermore, conditioning training which could only produce humble results in normal humans, produced incredible results in Martial Apprentices due to a much superior neuro-endocrinological response to conditioning from

human body on a

Martial Heart!' Rui realized. 'It's the Upper Realm version of the Apprentice Realm, thus Martial Masters

better use of the same power than

the frailest of infants may split heaven and earth asunder should their bodies, minds, and souls harmonize with the flow of the

Rui was far away from. And yet it was only the first step within the Upper Realms. Just how much further