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 through

was a

sane man would walk down

nonetheless, he chose

out

lulled him,

the path no

prophecy with its own," she frowned. "I did not know it was possible for an awakened bodyforger to resist and override

reverie in a

words caught

not the first time he saw this

had seen it many times

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

she called

the visions that his mind conjured up in her Martial

is a product of the Martial Artist whose embodiment it is and

Rui knew that.

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

the case of Matriarch Nephi, it allowed the beholder to

eyes widened in shock as

voice. "I can bestow a fraction of my power to others. At least, as long as they're not lesser

"…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 of her full

she directed

RUMBLE!

world shook as a myriad of visions flashed through

The Beast Domain.

the information that Rui associated with it all in a messy flash: the depiction of it on maps and the information he learned about it

a black

Martial Artists could peer into its

fantasies and reality-defying tribulations

well as

distorted and flashing visions of a

blurred. He wore a worn-out medical coat with an array of medical tools adorned across multiple belts and straps across his