The Martial Unity

Word spread through the Gereign Region.

"The Carnil Mafia and the Vale Syndicate have entered a cold war."

As of yet, hostilities had not been broken out. However, everyone even remotely informed could sense the friction.

Competition over resources, trade routes, and skirmishes. These things all pointed to a broader underlying tension.

Yet none of them knew that the origin of this tension was two red herrings created by a mastermind that had foreseen all of this.

Rui, on the other hand, did not care.

He had planted seeds of conflict because they had been worth the effort. If they panned out into a grand fire, that was great.

If they merely smoldered, that too was fine.

He was much more focused on something else.

The combat data of the three high-grade Martial Seniors in the Gereign base of the Carnil Mafia.

When he revised all the information that the Beggar's Sect had on them…

"They're goddamn monsters," Rui grinned.

Senior Zenshin, the Veritable Tiger.

His Martial Body had been geared towards absolute offense and power.

His claws had been honed and sharpened for three hundred years.

Beggar's Sect, his claws were so sharp, that they would create sparks and crackles of lightning when he clawed

eyes widened. 'He can create plasma just by swiping his claws? Is he splitting molecules

they were progressively sharpening over the span of three hundred years. There were some things that could only

the more he became wary of the sheer peril that Senior

decisively fatal. Rui suspected that the piercing attacks could probably hurt him even if Senior Zenshin didn't use his

He could probably split Rui

only a grade-thirteen Martial Senior,' Rui

that there were two grades of Martial Seniors who were above

were a small group of elites who could

suppress his excitement. 'I already knew this, but actually seeing the vastness

mid-grade Martial Seniors who were on the upper end of the mid-grade had been able to push Rui to go all out. Currently, his

The Pattern Recognition System.

The Metabody System.

The Hypnomatrix.

needed only one, or at most, two to beat the mid-grade Martial Seniors of

use all three against

would be forced to use all three against high-grade Martial

manipulate even more forces if I wanted to mount even more political pressure. Then I could just incentivize them to take attack and take over

decided to not take out the high-grade Martial

The reason was simple.

fight them.' A small grin cracked at the edge of his mouth. 'I want to fight

grown a lot since his last fight to his limit. It had been more than four years since he fought the Martial Senior of the child trafficking

needed to know his

to extensively break in his Martial Art with some experience. Experience was the foundation of growth. Anybody who didn't temper one's Martial Art with experience would

tower need to be at each level. Each

no different from how every development project, no matter if it was physical or software, needed to be tested rigorously countless times before it was deemed to

structures needed to be pressure tested thoroughly at every stage before