The Martial Unity

Rui had much to think about the previous fight. It had been the first fight in quite a long time where he had been pushed to such a limit, and it helped him understand the current state of his power and progress.

Naturally, it also helped him realize his flaws and shortcomings.

'I need to be quicker with the Hypnomatrix,' Rui tutted. He had just gotten up after a good long sleep, refreshing himself a bit back at his personal quarters. 'Had I made my choice quicker, it wouldn't have gotten to this. This was despite having foreknowledge on her.'

Although the Beggar's Sect had offered him a good amount of knowledge into Senior Marna's abilities, it didn't offer insight into the nuances that he needed to figure out which Hypnomatrix technique to use.

By the time he figured it out, he was too busy trying not to die, being bombarded by the very land he stood on. Things would have been even worse had he not had any insight into her. He would have been completely blindsided by her niche abilities and there was a real possibility that he would have died.

That was why despite winning, and despite the satisfaction that came with adaptively evolving to and overcoming someone of her caliber, he didn't let it get to his head. He was not so superior that he had earned the right to look down on her.

'Still, a domain Martial Art…'Rui grew curious about this field of Martial Art. "I guess even to this day, there are fields of Martial Art out there that I don't know about."

be places, people, Martial Art, and other phenomena that he would never be able to learn about unless he came across them himself. Not even the powerful Martial Union could

do something like that,

this, he truly had been surprised when he learned about domain techniques.

sound from within his body. In the case of domain techniques, the environment never directly interacted with the user. "Interesting…" Rui narrowed his

came to his mind as he wondered if he could potentially integrate an element of domain manipulation into

have his environment to adapt to become antithetical to his

could have his environment aid his physical and

to gain an advantage after adapting to it. There was much greater power to be gained if one was willing to risk

further. He knew far too little about

as he considered the matter.

a list of things he should consider doing or pursuing. However, domain techniques were not an immediate concern for

more than seven years since he left the Shionel Confederation, approaching eight years. He wanted to quickly get his hands on the information to form a foolproof way to get rid of Chairman Deacon. That was now his top

as Primordial Seed.' Rui sighed. Of course, integrating Primordial Seed into his Martial Art was much harder than mastering an

communication device and reading the message that he had