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.

that they would create sparks and crackles of lightning when

his claws? Is he splitting molecules into atoms? Just

even imagine how sharp they were if they were progressively sharpening over the span of three hundred years. There were some things that could only be gained through dedicated perseverance

read about him, the more he became wary of

suspected that the piercing attacks could probably hurt him even if Senior

could probably split Rui

is still only a grade-thirteen Martial Senior,' Rui

meant that there were two grades of Martial

of elites who could crush even Senior

to suppress his excitement. 'I already knew this, but actually seeing the vastness of this Realm leaves

upper end of the mid-grade had been able to push

The Pattern Recognition System.

The Metabody System.

The Hypnomatrix.

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

been forced to use all

minimum, he would

forces if I wanted to mount even more political

out the high-grade Martial

The reason was simple.

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

four years since he fought the Martial Senior of the child trafficking ring in the Saiful Region. That was the last time a Martial

to know his

also wanted 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 cease to

building a tower. The taller the tower, the stronger the foundations of the tower need to be at each level. Each floor

matter if it was physical or software, needed to be tested rigorously countless times before it

tested thoroughly at every stage before progressing to the