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.

path wound through

was a

would walk

nonetheless, he chose

called out

him, drawing him

walk the

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

his reverie in a startle. "Uh,

words caught his

the first time he saw

it many times in

like a visual representation of his Martial Path.

she called it

eyes returned to the visions that his mind conjured up in her Martial Embodiment. "This…is a

Martial Embodiment is a product of the Martial Artist whose

Rui knew that.

him something similar himself. It was the reason that he saw Master Ceeran's Martial Embodiment as a missile launcher of homing missiles from Earth while everyone else saw siege

appeared that in the case of Matriarch Nephi, it allowed the beholder to

in shock as the implications

her voice. "I can bestow a fraction of my power

"…Incredible," Rui whispered.

show you; I just didn't expect your mind to be this powerful. You will redefine what is possible when you break through to the Master Realm. Regardless, for now…" She narrowed her eyes, exerting a fraction

felt himself losing control of the visions as she directed him to

RUMBLE!

world shook as a myriad of

The Beast Domain.

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

was a black

of powerful Martial Artists

were hidden within its depths. Supernatural fantasies and reality-defying tribulations were

well as a certain

as distorted and flashing visions

straps across his entire body. A variety of instruments and