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.

escape domains by simply exiting them. One of them was simply following and taking

him, spreading through the air, filtering out the

his eyes as he considered whether he ought to

his head even as his breathing grew

took too much energy and strained him far too much. He still had many assassins to

he had kept his Metabody consumption to the

physical stamina was the reason that he needed to keep it

man rushed forward towards Rui, launching a flurry of

BAM BAM BAM!!!

blows were surprisingly

Rui's eyes widened with realization. 'He's using a domain to

well as the

he

"Passive mastery…" Rui murmured.

"That's right, Rui Quarrier,"

voice

powerful, yet you are unable to use them simultaneously. You are also unable to use them while fighting unarmed," The Suffocator's voice was gleeful. "Well

halt his combat as he began

WHOOSH!

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

commented. "But unlike you, I can weave domains

BAM BAM BAM!!!

his best to disperse the impact of the powerful blows of the man's attacks

would have been quite easy to deal with, but they were particularly difficult to do

System this

early to use it, considering how much it drained his

passively drained from taking on the first four

he could not also afford to further drain it with

Pain technique, allowing him

with the huge

POW

for assassins that are surely to come even after? Does it feel suffocating? Does

pleasure

never entered

his eyes were fixed on

They were waiting.