The Martial Unity

RUMBLE

Rui's eyes widened as the world shook.

The air grew tumultuous, boiling, as it was wrung by the power that Matriarch Nephi manifested.

She conjured a barrier between herself and Rui to protect him and shield her visage from him, yet he could feel his grandmother's powerful Martial Heart blooming into power, followed by her Martial Mind.

Yet, that wasn't all. A third Realm of power far greater than the previous bloomed alongside them, elevating herself to a much greater degree of power.

Rui gritted his teeth as he struggled to withstand the pressure that she was emanating.

"Behold."

Her voice graced him.

"The future."

His eyes widened as she dispelled the barrier, and her Martial Embodiment bloomed in his mind at full power.

Suddenly, the entire world around him changed.

He found himself standing on a path.

A path that he had trodden his entire life.

No.

A path he had walked even before his life.

The world around him was completely different. One moment, he was in the shed of his grandmother in the Ilvilia Forest; the very next moment, the world around him shifted, becoming something else entirely.

It had become a world of tribulations.

Rui's expression grew horrified as he bore witness to an endless sea of calamities as far as the eye could see.

Earthquakes, volcanoes, tornados, hurricanes, blizzard storms ravaged the world around him. All manners of monsters and beasts unleashed an onslaught unto the lands around them.

wound

was a perilous

would walk down this

he chose

called out

him,

would walk the

she frowned. "I did not know it was possible for an awakened

out of his reverie in a

words caught his

first time he saw

many times in the

know why, but it was almost like a visual representation of his Martial Path. He had seen

she called it

eyes returned to the visions that his mind

product of

Rui knew that.

Ceeran had told him something similar himself. It was the reason that he saw Master Ceeran's Martial

appeared that in the case of Matriarch Nephi, it allowed

shock as

asked with pride in her voice. "I can bestow a fraction of my power to others.

"…Incredible," Rui whispered.

not what I wanted to show you; I just didn't expect your mind to be this powerful. You will redefine what is possible when you

himself losing control of the visions as she directed him to see what she

RUMBLE!

shook as a myriad of visions flashed through Rui's

The Beast Domain.

depiction of it on maps and the information he learned about it during his crash course on it, as well

was a

powerful Martial

hidden within its depths. Supernatural fantasies and reality-defying

as a

widened as distorted and

and straps across