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.

single whisper

"What is this…?"

RUMBLE

lands quivered as the Gatekeeper emerged from

power that I have cultivated over five centuries," the Gatekeeper solemnly

narrowed

hundred thousand more to

spine. He felt something he hadn't felt in battle in a

Fear.

come!" The Gatekeeper

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

lateral swing was hurled at

WHOOSH!

as Rui

WHOOOOOOSH!!!!

power of the swing caused shifts in pressure in the atmosphere across the northernmost peak of Kandria, altering the

Gatekeeper was

barrage of powerful blows at Rui, each with the power to crumple his body into an indistinguishable slab of

None of them connected.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

evaded every single one of them, even if narrowly. The

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

as his concentration and focus heightened even more, reaching unprecedented levels. He could not afford to make even a single mistake. There was a zero tolerable

no question of trying to defend against the Gatekeeper's attacks. The man was

FLICK

a small cut emerged on

was not the attack

No.

air pressure around the attack generated

his teeth as the Gatekeeper appeared before

BOOM!!!!!

of destruction emerged as his attack

when the Gatekeeper had already arrived, thrusting

BOOOM!!!!!

with a grave expression, successfully managing to evade the attack, yet the Gatekeeper had already

WHOOSH

BOOOOOM!!!!!!!

A single truth had become evident

was weaker than the

went, the Gatekeeper was absurdly stronger. Thus far, Rui had been pushing himself to desperately avoid the destruction of the

WHOOSH!