The Martial Unity

Rui's luxury suite was, well, luxurious. It was the kind that would be used to house extremely important and special guests, after all. One of the things that Rui was pleased about was that the guildmaster did not mess around and rather quickly supplied Rui with all the data that he sought.

He found a box on the table in his suite that contained thick and dense piles of documents and files after he returned from a relaxing tub bath.

He had no interest in beating around the bush.

Immediately diving into the pile, fishing out what served as an index for which files contained what.

"Valley of Prisms…ah, there it is," Rui spotted the document that contained what he was looking for.

The empirical data of ecological and environmental parameters of the Valley of Prisms in the past few decades.

Now, all he needed to do was observe the changes in the Valley of Prisms in that timeframe, subtract the changes that occurred constantly and uniformly, and look for any potentially abrupt disruption during the time period that the Divine Doctor was supposed to have arrived at the Valley of Prisms, according to the Beggar Sage.

The data provided had all kinds of tabular data, graphs, and charts pertaining to things like population count of fauna and flora, food chain demographics, changes in topography, land, and air, as well as fluctuations in evaluated danger level.

Simply glancing through the data confirmed to Rui that there was indeed a constant change.

One that lined up with the Beast Convergence Theory presented by the Ecologer, an immortal sage who had been granted immortality by the Beggar Sage for her extraordinary progress and contributions to ecology.

demonstrated a tendency for migration of fauna species towards the center of the Beast Domain. Herbivorous species slowly moved toward the center of the Beast Domain while

prey in

mean their progress

level of all species rose significantly. Thus, when species of the Beast Domain tried moving deeper, they ran into

environmental barriers. A drastic shift in the environment would hamper migration since these species would not be able to sustainably live in such

efforts were

of Prisms, this was

until Rui reached the year that the Divine Doctor was supposed to have entered

was a

that did live in the valley at the time. They

lit up

as plants and trees, esoteric or otherwise, began dying up and even rotting

period before it stopped, and the

was marked as an anomaly whose cause was entirely unknown to this day. Some meta-analyses have been conducted that hypothesized that a powerful monster with potentially poisonous esoteric capabilities had traveled through the forest

However, Rui disagreed.

chaos," Rui remarked with

Sage had told Rui when looking for the Divine Doctor. He was already very credible due to his position and known capabilities. And the fact that his words appeared to be true lent

easy part since he had the data on the valley during the time period that the Divine

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