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."

foresee an enormous growth in your

I'm already in the fourteenth grade," Rui remarked with perplexity. "The Roaring Dragon Blood Potion has given me a considerable boost

amused. "I'm

"…Why not?"

know that I never managed to reach the fourteenth grade as a

"You broke through as

Ceeran nodded. "The average grade to break through to

"You're telling me most Martial Masters were only as strong as I

it as well as a scholar would. But the reason for this is that there is a greater variance of power at the highest echelons of the Senior Realm despite the lower population. The low population means that we do not wish to add another grade just to host a single Martial Senior in it, yet at the same time

mean deviation of the upper-class datasets," Rui murmured, instantly understanding the

sounds like what the scholars said when I inquired why my grade as a Martial Senior was not going up despite getting much stronger," Master Ceeran replied, heaving a sigh. "Regardless, I did get it intuitively. Did you know that there are only

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

scarce the power of the Upper

grade seventeen. But nobody wants to create an extra grade just for one Martial Senior, or for five out of one thousand five hundred, so we stuff them all in grade fifteen and

to my breathing," Rui murmured. "Indeed," Master Ceeran replied. "It's also a testament to the sheer