The Martial Unity

While the two Martial Masters were rushed for medical care, the remaining Martial Masters of the Martial Union could not help but look back on the battle between Rui and Master Grais.

"…How?" One Martial Master gritted his teeth. "How can one be that powerful at the age of thirty-five?! It doesn't make sense!"

They fell into thought at his words.

They would all be lying if they said they didn't share at least a bit of his frustration.

The average Martial Master broke through to the Martial Master at roughly the age of one hundred and fifty. The average Martial Master also broke through to grade seven in the Master Realm, which was the very beginning of the low-mid grade.

Some particularly talented, powerful, and experienced Martial Masters started off at much higher grades, like grade thirteen. These were geniuses who were not only talented in mind, body, Path, and Art but had cultivated their Martial Art for centuries before breaking through to the Master Realm.

Yet, none of them could even begin to fathom how Rui had actually broken through to the Master Realm at such a high level of power that he could defeat grade-nineteen Martial Masters without too much strain and even take down grade-twenty-three Martial Masters.

It made them feel like their entire lives had been a waste of time. "I had always known he had immense potential deep within him even when he was but a human." Headmaster Aronian smiled, closing his eyes as he recalled memories of old. "However, not even I could have imagined something like this was possible."

Not everyone took it as well as he did.

"…I was still a Martial Apprentice when I was thirty-five," Master Herel whispered.

He had been convinced that Rui would lose two matches out of three. Possibly all three.

He was a brand-new Martial Master, after all, and had only been a Martial Artist for twenty-one years.

That was nothing in his eyes.

little time to amount

Rui defeated Master Zereena while still holding back,

simply at a loss for words. It was as though Rui's shocking victory and

was left

in being a grade-twenty-four Martial

to that from the looks

may very well have been a high-grade Martial Master, he

pridefully. He glared at her. "Who let her in? She's not even a

out on him when he

words pricked at

far as compatibility went, he did not think he

cleared so soon. If the Sage Council is dissatisfied

His words were sharp.

eyes. "As far as the provisions of the Martial Judiciary Delegation Act go, he has been acquitted of fraud and can no longer be

are the Sage Council. Should they will that he suffer consequences, then nobody

the Emperor of Harmony,"

The air grew heavy.

were talking about forces that not

"Zentra is right."

voice cut through the air, drawing all

Master Sera smiled. "And even if they did, with the Emperor of Harmony returning, they will not be able to do anything without threatening to provoke a civil

of the

sure you're aware of the consequences of a civil war at this moment,"

message was

trigger the advent of the third East Panamic War," She remarked