The Martial Unity

1538 Artifical Triggers

"…And since then, I've been fighting. In missions, operations, and commissions…But I haven't felt my Martial Heart awaken ever since then," Kane sighed, sitting opposite Rui as they enjoyed a cup of tea while Kane narrated his visit to the Arrancar Household to Rui, keeping a few embarrassing details from him.

Rui found his tale to be fascinating, especially the part of how he apparently had gained a massive advantage due to his prolonged youth. It made sense in hindsight, something he should have figured out. Thankfully, he would benefit from it nonetheless.

Regardless, he put that matter aside for the time being.

His friend needed his help, after all.

"I don't know what to do, at this point," Kane sighed.

Rui had thought that there wasn't too much to be lost by breaking through a few years later than earlier, but apparently, he was wrong. Kane was twenty-eight, just like himself. The later he broke through, the less of his prime he would be able to maintain.

There was almost nothing anybody else could do, this was a hurdle that ordinarily only the Martial Artist themselves had to face and overcome.

Unless, of course, they were also friends with Rui Quarrier.

Rui had not forgotten the fact that he triggered Senior Frinjschia's Martial Heart by threatening to break their path, inadvertently discovering a way to trigger the Martial Heart.

The way Rui went about it was not by challenging their Martial drive. What Rui did was threaten to destroy the means by which they would fulfill their Martial drive.

for a variety of reasons. Many people pursued power for the sake of power itself. Many pursued it for wealth, prestige, influence, glory, and a variety of other

undoubtedly their only path to fulfilling these various

what if something threatened to cripple that

to destroy the power that they had

Martial drive. Thus crippling their cultivated power was the same as crippling their Martial drive. To someone who pursued wealth through their Martial power, crippling their Martial power was

threatening the Martial drive, the same kind of threat that triggered

the Martial Heart by threatening the Martial Path that

breathed a word about this to anybody else. Not even Senior Xanarn or Kane. It was just too revolutionary. The fact that four Martial Masters already knew about

did not

that he was faced with Kane,

attention. "Let's change places. I

wondering where this was

Rui murmured. "We'll have to leave the country. I don't feel safe even uttering it within the Kandrian Empire. Far too many powerful Martial Artists with

had no idea where Rui was going with this, but he followed suit. To Martial Artists, traveling over such great distances was something that was not that big a

took him to the very top of a tall mountain in a surrounding forest, scanning the entire place for an hour with his senses did he feel confident

can trigger the breakthrough to the Senior Realm," Rui whispered

eyes

him. "I

"…"