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.

pursued power 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

they obtained was undoubtedly their only path to fulfilling these

something threatened to cripple

threatened to destroy the power that they had cultivated

be able to fulfill their 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 no different from crippling their wealth. The same was true

Martial drive, the same

way to trigger the Martial Heart by threatening the Martial Path that served to fulfill

The fact that four Martial Masters already knew about it was a headache, the fact that

not need

he was faced with

attention. "Let's change places. I

wondering where this was

"We'll have to leave the country. I don't feel safe even uttering it

with this, but he followed suit. To Martial Artists, traveling over such great distances was something that was not that big a

top of a tall

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

eyes widened with

him. "I can do

"…"