The Martial Unity

"Master Ceeran, can you tell me about the Kandrian Martial Master of domain techniques?" Rui asked.

"Hm? Ah, Master Gurren," Ceeran nodded. "I don't know too much about him, personally. I do know that he lives in South-West Kandria on a mountain in the Great Jravian mountain range, though it is said that he keeps moving around the vast mountain range to keep people from approaching him. If you're interested in speaking to him, you will have to find him yourself."

"Oof," Rui winced. "That's rough."

The Great Jravian mountain range was called 'great' because of its enormous vast expanse extending thousands of kilometers across any direction. If Rui was going to have to find a single Martial Master across this expanse of mountains, he was going to have to scour every ounce of the entire region with his senses.

Also, if the Martial Master did not want to meet him, then Rui highly doubted he would be able to find him.

"I'll have to get it a shot nonetheless," Rui heaved a sigh.

"Are you interested in domain techniques?" Master Ceeran asked, curious. "That's a little unexpected, domain techniques aren't known to be the most flexible techniques, which I thought would not gel well with your Martial Path."

Rui shook his head. "Domain techniques give me the opportunity to adapt another element of combat to my opponent. The environment. The environment is just as important in a fight as the fighters themselves. If I can adapt the environment to my opponent, then I will have achieved a higher level of adaptive evolution than was previously possible."

rose. "I see, that is truly ambitious. I foresee an enormous growth in your power should

the fourteenth grade," Rui remarked with perplexity. "The Roaring Dragon Blood Potion has given me a

"I'm afraid not,

"…Why not?"

Ceeran turned forward, facing ahead. "Did you know that I never managed to reach the fourteenth

Rui's eyes furrowed with surprise. "You broke through as

Ceeran nodded. "The average grade to break through to the Master Realm

distant from the peak of the Senior Realm," Rui replied, flummoxed. "You're telling me

Martial Senior in it, yet at the same time we cannot simply update the entire grade system as a whole since this isn't a universal increase in power due to expected generational growth over time. Thus rather than having to add more grades for very few Martial Artists and deviate from fifteen grades, simply distribute all the extra variance of the upper echelons amongst the last three grades, making them

this is class-interval inflation due to higher mean deviation of the upper-class datasets," Rui murmured, instantly understanding the statistics

up despite getting much stronger," Master Ceeran replied, heaving a sigh. "Regardless,

murmured, impressed. "Only twelve out of a thousand five

how scarce the power of the

grade fifteen, another five in grade sixteen, and one in grade seventeen. But nobody wants to create an extra grade just for one Martial Senior, or

for having grain a substantial boost to my breathing," Rui murmured. "Indeed," Master Ceeran replied. "It's also a testament to the sheer size of the Senior