The Martial Unity

The Suffocator did not appear to be in a hurry.

Rui found this strange.

Instead, he simply noted Rui's enhanced regeneration, as mentioned in the intelligence that they received, born from the Hungry Pain technique.

"Who put you up to this?" Rui growled as he recuperated, grateful to the assassin for giving him a few seconds to catch his breath.

He may have already triumphed over the twins, but they definitely strained and stressed him out.

He even deactivated his Martial Heart. It was an extraordinarily precious resource at the moment.

"I have no idea," The Suffocator replied. "Probably someone extremely powerful. You have powerful enemies, Rui Quarrier."

His strange accent being warped through the mask left his speech to be quite different.

"Have you bated your exhaustion?" The Suffocator asked helpfully.

"…Do you mind if I drink a rejuvenation potion?"

"Even my generosity has limits," The Suffocator scoffed. "Now then. Bare your domain."

Rui raised an eyebrow. "Why would I do tha-"

"If you don't want to die, that is," The Suffocator's voice grew cold as he began bending heaven.

Rui's eyes widened as he got a good look at what he was doing.

He was creating a density of gradient vertically, then filtering out gases of a certain amount of relative density by eliminating gas across between that gradient.

Namely, oxygen.

That left a domain without any oxygen.

Rui held his breath as he leaped away, yet the man leaped along with him while also expanding the domain with him.

"What's the matter?" The Suffocator's voice called out to him. "Cat got your domain? Not confident you'll win?"

He was surprisingly fast, refusing to allow Rui to exit his domain.

domains by simply

influence of the domain followed him, spreading through the air,

narrowed his eyes as he considered whether he ought to use Neo

his head even as his breathing grew

too much energy and strained him far too much. He still had many assassins to survive and overcome. He needed to

was why he had kept his Metabody consumption to

that he needed to keep it to

forward towards

BAM BAM BAM!!!

blows were surprisingly

widened with realization. 'He's using a domain

that as well as the oxygen-depriving

that, he was fighting hand-to-hand

"Passive mastery…" Rui murmured.

"That's right, Rui Quarrier,"

Suffocator's voice was

them while fighting unarmed," The Suffocator's voice was gleeful. "Well then,

as he began heaven-bending. He wasn't

WHOOSH!

he was just employing heaven-bending to disrupt his opponent's

"But unlike you, I can weave

BAM BAM BAM!!!

impact of the powerful blows of the man's attacks with passive Flux

to deal with, but they were

System this time. Yet

use it, considering

passively drained from taking on the first

afford to further drain it with the

the stamina-preserving Metabody System with final breathing and Hungry Pain technique, allowing

still left him with the

POW POW

the matter?!" The Suffocator's voice was filled with sadistic glee. "Too exhausted from previous assassins? Too concerned for assassins that are surely to come even after? Does it feel suffocating? Does it feel like you're choking?

ecstatic pleasure as he witnessed Rui's pain

never entered his

eyes were fixed on

They were waiting.