The Martial Unity

In the past week, the world may as well have ceased to exist.

For Rui, at least.

He immersed himself in a deep meditation.

He refined his concentration, honing his focus.

The world around him slowly ceased to exist as his mind entered a state of mental singularity, filtering out all information outside of the state of concentration. A state of consciousness is often referred to as the zone or flow state.

It was delicate and fragile.

Fickle in its ability to be achieved.

Rui would often immerse himself in psychological conditioning to allow him to enter such a state.

Yet, he had never entered it in less than a week outside of spontaneous luck.

This time, however, it was as though the sum totality of his being understood the gravity of the situation that he was in.

It understood the consequences of failure.

Thus, it readily complied, allowing Rui to enter a state of mind where he could exert more than a hundred-percent of his regular power.

That, along with all the gains that he had made in the past five years away from Kandria, meant that he was the strongest that he had ever been in his entire life. Fitting, considering he was going to face what was undoubtedly the strongest opponent he had ever faced in his entire life.

A Master-level beast.

It was almost surreal.

What had he been thinking, he often wondered.

as though he had been in a trance

opened facing the distant, dark core of the

be the most glorious accomplishment or the most inglorious

had considered sneaking a peak into the Master-level core of the Mellow Dugeon many times in the

he not

beast, it would increase the probability that he would

considering that it never once left the core. That meant that it would undoubtedly pounce on him as well since he was entering an

to this that Rui ultimately avoided the master-level core. Triggering the battle against the Master-level core prematurely and that too in the core itself, would have

spent meditating was merely a week, yet it may as well have been an eternity within the depths

painstakingly erased every single superfluous and irrelevant thought as

increasingly

gathered, becoming a force

winced when he arrived at him, almost as if the sharpness of Rui's

called to Rui.

opened, turning

Kane. His eyes were fixed

moment,

else ought

else mattered, he would be

a temporary state where nothing

STEP

gazing at

letting his body get a full, natural night of sleep. He adjusted his diet perfectly, to ensure that he wasn't even the slightest bit hampered

go." His voice

before they arrived at the Divine Doctor's makeshift abode. The man was clearly prepared,

His voice contained a hint of cheeriness. "What

if he was embarking on a picnic than an operation, the failure of which would

grumbled.

for brooding anxiety of death," the

Kane scowled at him.