The Martial Unity

He closed his eyes, donning his most intense and powerful Mind Mask. Instantly, a Master-level aura spread across the Forest of Fear, sending shivers across the entire region.

Yet the wyverns just grinned at him gleefully, snorting and huffing.

Their non-verbal communication conveyed a single message.

Deception.

"Tsk," Rui tutted, displeased, dispelling the Mind Mask.

Instantly, they spiraled around him, hoping to gang up on the stronger one of the two. They converged on him in one fell swoop, preparing powerful infernos to cook him alive. The prey would have no direction to escape while being subjected to the combined heat of all the wyverns of the Forest of Fear. This tactic ensured that no prey within the Senior Realm could possibly survive their prison of hellish fire.

The end was nigh, as far as they were concerned.

Yet, in facing the approaching wyverns, Rui didn't so much as twitch. He stood midair with closed eyes.

A single remark escaped him.

"Your neck muscles stiffen two milliseconds prior to flame attacks."

His eyes flashed open as he spun, launching a flurry of Mighty Roar Flash Blasts at each of their flame-spewing mouths a millisecond before they opened.

THWOOM TWHOOM THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM!

FWOOOOOOOOOSH!

"ROOOOOOAAAAAARRRRR!!!" The wyverns roared in pain as the perfectly timed sonic bullets entered their mouths the very moment they opened it, pushing the fire inside their bodies rather than outside. The fireballs erupted inside their esophagi, causing them major internal burns.

Yet Rui was hardly done. He was grateful that the Angel of Laplace had been completed before he was burned to a crisp by nearly two dozen obsidian wyverns. This allowed him to build predictive models on each of them at the last second.

Fortunately, the obsidian wyverns were extremely similar to each other. Their patterns overlapped significantly, allowing him to reuse data of each wyvern on the others.

"ROOOOOOOOAAAAAAARR!" Immense rage echoed every note of their bellow as they prepared even more fireballs.

patterns were as transparent

THWOOM THWOOM

he saw their neck muscles stiffen, instantly extrapolating the

FWOOOOOOOOOSH!

in pain as they glared at

best you could

fear, it was clear that they were prone to falling to other emotions. It would do well for him

rage, spiraling

formed, Rui's confidence had

it," he growled

it, they

WHOOSH WHOOSH

the flock focused on him while the

he claimed he wasn't worried about Kane. He was only a mid-grade Martial Senior, and he

in a position to worry about him. The obsidian wyverns were clearly intelligent enough to recognize

in the sky, eying him

flood of peril erupted from each of

conflagrations of panic across the fauna of

Rui did not

rooted in his spot in the air with an aura of impregnable solidity, never

He was waiting.

Waiting for the moment.

on him, swerving in

a lesser dragon became a jet-black blur, arriving at his location in moments, ready to rip a

it couldn't so much as touch

WHOOSH

cleanly evaded the bull

the wyverns, using them to his advantage to foresee their

could never

Yet, what about twenty-two?