The Martial Unity

He was physically tired.

He was wounded. Bruised. Cut.

He was mentally exhausted.

Yet he pulled himself together when he felt yet another surge of peril with Primordial Instinct.

WHOOSH

The assassin was stealthy.

Rui could feel the misdirection even as he approached.

Unfortunately for the assassin, Rui's mind was extremely difficult to misdirect. On top of that, his senses were extremely powerful. On top of that, Riemannian Echo was indirect sensing.

He was so resistant to being misdirected that Kane had stopped bothering to use Void Step when sparring against Rui. It was simply useless. At this point, he doubted whether any misdirection in the Senior Realm could even affect him.

Unfortunately for the assassin, the reports that the M had given them did not entirely capture how resistant to misdirection Rui was.

That was why he was waiting.

Waiting for one of the assassins to finally use it against him.

All so that he could pretend to fall for it and launch a trap at the opportune moment.

WHOOSH!

Rui evaded an assassination technique at the last moment, meeting eyes with him.

'Phantom Pain!'

BAM BAM BAM!!!

Caught off-guard, Rui managed to pound him with several blows.

"Rrrgrhh!!!" The man grimaced under the sheer pain from the technique.

Ordinarily, he would have retreated and immediately opted for guerilla warfare tactics. Yet the sheer pain from Rui's blow almost caused him to vomit what he had eaten for breakfast!

He shivered, trying to break out of a pseudo-paralysis caused by the ungodly hellish pain.

Yet he was a beat too late.

BAM BAM BAM!!!

Rui pinned him to the ground with a mounted position.

Murderous rage radiated from him, sending chills down the assassin's spine.

He didn't even bother going for a chokehold to finish it off as cleanly as possible.

BAM!!!

crashed into the assassin's

CRACK!

The assassin howled with excruciating agony as his nose was crushed under

shivered and shuddered with pain. His eyes flashed around, rolling backward as he

"I'm not a sadist."

The air grew perilous.

dark wave of bloodlust erupted from within

It was suffocating.

"I'm not a sadist…"

Rui's expression was murderous.

suffering does bring

a single hammer

Fear entered the

BAM!!! BAM!!! BAM!!!

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!

Breathing. Hypertrophic Surge. Outer Convergence. Reverberating Lance.

five techniques drove his fist

BOOM!!!

BOOM!!!

BOOM!!!

howls of pain ceased. Perhaps it was because the man's vocal cords had snapped with all

the man couldn't breathe,

BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!

a visible reaction in

each impact, they

BOOM!!!

The man's fingers twitched.

longer had a

was now a

Rui panted heavily when he was done. His expression grew ugly as he beheld

happenings on the hapless

cathartic. It also brought him back to

from the bottom of

BADUMP…

since he started fighting. He had less than ten percent of his reserves left. It was

using everything

Suddenly, something changed.

The air changed.

felt a deep

than any of the others he had faced thus

strange scent entered

odor tickled his

It was not ordinary.

eyes widened as his

His body grew excited.

masculine urge flushed

redirected to his groin as it swelled up, standing stiff and

feminine whisper

"You've fought well."

STEP