The Martial Unity

With a bit of thought, he gained a lot of clarity and conviction on his path forward from that point on. Prior to returning home, one of his drives was returning home. Now that that had been fulfilled, he had managed to relax for a bit.

But alas, it seemed that life was not willing to cut him some slack. Before he even realized it, he had already been dragged into several troublesome matters.

But it also helped him get back a bit of the urge for power he had back when Chairman Deacon was still alive.

When it came to his core long-term double-life ambition of Project Water, as well as his side and temporary drives for power for the Kandrian Throne War, he had several paths forward.

Naturally, he could make good use of the rewards that he had gotten from the Hungry Pain contribution.

He still had hundreds of millions of Martial Credits even after the expenses of the operation that he had undertaken to create an information blackout around Master Uma for Rui Quarrier.

He had the potions to empower his body.

He also had a hundred hours of dedicated tutelage from Martial Masters who had sold their time to the Martial Union. He knew from being trained under Master Reina and Master Zeamer that Martial Masters were quite insightful, there were only gains to be made from their tutelage.

However, more importantly, he needed to focus on the direction that he was going to go down.

multiple paths forward to expanding his ability

run into this magical substance in the Virodhabhasa Theocracy. It constituted the body of the abyssfeeders and was the

of harnessing that ability one

foundation. In his assault against the Gereign base of the Carnil Mafia, he found that he was always far behind his opponents in terms of raw physical parameters. Of course, he had won every single one of his fights, but

play the 'bridge the gap' game that he constantly found himself playing against other high-grade Martial Seniors. Of course, it was expected that he would find himself in such a situation when considering the fact that they were usually centuries,

them an enormous edge over him that

path of pursuit that he was most interested in considering was

A niche field centered around broader and extensive manipulation of the environment. This was a technique that manipulated the environment to such a degree that it essentially created a field within which the user could conjure up a variety of strange effects through

Rui was no stranger to harnessing the power of the atmosphere through wind and sound, but this was different. He didn't gain dominion over the atmosphere or over sound and

Martial Senior that he fought could literally command the land

was a fascinating technique that

opened his eyes to what

opened new paths for adaptive

a domain technique to adaptively evolve his environment to

potentially be a