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.

expect him to have prepared counters to escape domains by simply exiting them. One of them was simply following and taking the domain with

of the domain followed him, spreading through

whether he ought to use Neo

He shook his head even as his breathing grew

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 the absolute

stamina was the reason that he needed to keep

as the man rushed forward towards Rui, launching a

BAM BAM BAM!!!

were surprisingly

'He's using a

that as well as the oxygen-depriving domain

he was fighting hand-to-hand

"Passive mastery…" Rui murmured.

"That's right, Rui Quarrier,"

Suffocator's voice

You are also unable to use them while fighting unarmed," The Suffocator's voice

as he began heaven-bending. He wasn't

WHOOSH!

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

you, I can

BAM BAM BAM!!!

grimaced as he did his best to disperse the impact of the powerful blows of the man's attacks with

any other circumstances, these attacks would have been quite easy to deal with, but they were particularly difficult to

System this time. Yet despite that, he

it, considering how much

was already passively drained from taking on the

why he could not also afford to further drain it with

final breathing and Hungry Pain technique,

him with the

POW

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

became drowned in ecstatic pleasure as he

never

his eyes were fixed on

They were waiting.