The Martial Unity

Then they had it rough.

"These monsters are not as prey to their own instincts as other monsters," Rui's dark eyes sharpened. "In other words, tricks, and schemes that would work with other dim-witted animals are most likely going to be super ineffective against these creatures."

POW POW POW!

He erased the heads of several more harpies.

"Damn man!" Kane cursed at his words. "We can't just have it easy, huh? Why does this gotta be this hard."

"Relax." Rui's frosty voice possessed a spark of confidence. "This can work in our favor as well. I'll need to gather more data for that, though."

POW POW POW!

The two of them could have just breezed past these incredibly weak creatures, but Rui insisted on taking it slow.

"Given the environmental constraints, the fauna of this place is most likely not too diverse," Rui remarked. "In other words, the species at the outermost and weakest part of the dungeon are probably the same species that are in the core of the dungeon, protecting the source of the manifold. I can infer immense amount of data about the stronger creatures from these weakest members of the same species."

"Makes sense," Kane admitted, effortlessly slicing and dicing them into fine specks of flesh and blood.

SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT!

not even the

towards Rui, before widening his

of his dark eyes. "The best part is that collecting SOUL data on these species is a lot easier. Because these creatures are already in a

eyes lit up as he understood how well this worked in their favor. "That means you can harness

stoically. "That's

had SOUL models that were more the same than different. The

the lowered intelligence and primacy of intelligence resulted in low variance in SOUL models across the entirety of the species. In other words, humans had a far, far higher capacity for individuality than any other

that he gained from the enlightenment of the Tree of Life also concurred

greater variance than those for any other species in existence. No single environmental configuration could possibly be antithetical to all

was greatly

models on the stronger creatures by looking at the lower and weaker creatures." Rui realized

that he hadn't been able to use his SOUL System against the Master-level creatures that assaulted them shortly before they had been saved by the

was far stronger with the SOUL System than

might have been able to survive far longer than he would have. The issue was that the SOUL

It needed time.

another solution to get rid of this shortcoming as well, but in his

addition to gathering SOUL data on the species, he was able to get a good understanding of the environments most antithetical to them. The enlightenment of the Tree of Life showed him that the harpies had comparatively weak joints and wide

domain to be antithetical to them was a technique he already had, the Heavenly Convergence technique. This technique converged the vectors of the

was most optimal for killing it on