The Martial Unity

"Begin!"

BADUMP

Their Martial Hearts flickered into power the moment the battle commenced.

And that was when Rui saw the Sun.

The Gatekeeper's Martial Heart shined a brilliant, blinding white light that was more than an order of magnitude more powerful than any other Martial Heart Rui had ever seen in his entire life.

Yet he was unable to admire it.

Not even the briefest moment passed before the Gatekeeper leaped at Rui with an astronomical speed.

He had already arrived in just a matter of microseconds. His fists converged on Rui, threatening to crush him with a single blow.

It was within Rui's prediction.

WHOOSH!

He managed to evade it.

Yet the same could not be said for the very world around him.

BOOM!!!!!!!

Heaven and earth roared as a wave of destruction emerged from the attack. A devastating shockwave the likes of which Rui had never seen erupted from the collision. It spread, expanding as it engulfed everything.

The sheer concussive force of the shockwave shattered the foundations of the bedrock it touched as it spread from the epicenter. It spread through the battlefield and the skies for several kilometers, ravaging everything it engulfed.

STEP

Rui landed away.

He was frozen.

Frozen in shock as he beheld the destruction that the Gatekeeper unleashed upon the very world itself.

The battlefield had been ravaged. Where Rui once stood was the epicenter of a crater that spanned kilometers in radius. A profoundly deep scar had been inflicted upon the very world that bore their battle.

The attack hadn't struck him physically, but it sure did strike him mentally.

The destruction he beheld was in the same tier of power as the quasi-Master-level bomb that Chairman Deacon had surgically implanted into his body.

whisper

"What is this…?"

RUMBLE

quivered as the Gatekeeper emerged from the

I have cultivated over five centuries," the Gatekeeper solemnly remarked.

man narrowed

thousand

spine. He felt something he hadn't felt

Fear.

I come!" The Gatekeeper

the weight of his gargantuan body, his speed was extraordinary, exceeding even that

swing was hurled

WHOOSH!

Rui crouched, cleanly avoiding the

WHOOOOOOSH!!!!

of the swing caused shifts in pressure in

Gatekeeper was far

powerful blows at Rui, each with the power to crumple his body

None of them connected.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

of them, even if narrowly. The man surged

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

unprecedented levels. He could not afford to make even a single mistake. There was a zero tolerable margin of error, for even a single error would undoubtedly

trying to defend against the Gatekeeper's attacks. The man was so

FLICK

as a small cut emerged

not the attack

No.

air pressure around the attack generated by its

gritted his teeth as the Gatekeeper appeared before Rui once

BOOM!!!!!

attack barely missed Rui once, punishing the world

feat when the Gatekeeper had already arrived, thrusting

BOOOM!!!!!

to evade the attack, yet the Gatekeeper had already arrived before him once

WHOOSH

BOOOOOM!!!!!!!

battle had taken shape. A single truth had become evident to every single person

Kandria was

went, the Gatekeeper

WHOOSH!