The Martial Unity

As Rui belatedly realized, the ramifications of defeating the Gatekeeper were far greater than he had imagined.

A new burden fell on his shoulders.

The title of the strongest Martial Senior in the Kandrian Empire.

This wasn't the first time that he had been acknowledged as the strongest of the Realm. He had experienced just this in the Apprentice and Squire Realms as well, but he didn't expect that he would thrust into the pinnacle this early.

He still felt a nagging sense of unworthiness.

It stemmed from the fact that he needed to activate Angel of Laplace before the battle began and stall while he furiously processed the technique.

This was all fine and well in a duel setting, but the fact of the matter was that most of the battles that Rui fought were not duels; they were genuine life-and-death battles. He would not always get the chance to simply activate Angel of Laplace before the battle began.

He also would have undoubtedly lost if the Angel of Laplace had not kickestarted the predictive model to initial completion. The Gatekeeper was so much stronger that even Rui's greatest trump card could only allow him to maintain a stalemate of not dying.

"Tsk," Rui tutted, narrowing his eyes.

one of the greatest beasts that he had ever had to tame. Short of the actual VOID algorithm itself, nothing gave him more trouble than the Angel of

day he mastered it perfectly to be able to use it in combat seamlessly was the day that he would be entirely confident of being

and admiration he received from

showed him when he got

undoubtedly the one who would ascend the throne and gain power

receiving shows of deep deference from those

was a taste of what the Emperor undoubtedly went through his entire

seeing him for himself and were more prone to see the

was an

that only reaffirmed his determination not to

immediately secluded himself in returning to his physical peak. While his health was entirely fine, his body lost a bit its habituation

pushed to the limit comfortably. This process would normally take far longer for humans, but the Martial Body was intended for the purpose of exertion, strain, and stress;

reached his peak. The Beast Domain

pretenses up and not let his true intentions

sages under the pretense of seeking to reel these extraordinary individuals into his faction to increase his political capital and

excuse that did not evoke any suspicion because he was not the only one who had sought to achieve just this. Many powerful members of the ruling class of humanity had already tried

of them

for lack