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.

too little time to amount to

still holding back, he

obtained a pyrrhic victory, he was simply at a loss for words. It was as though Rui's shocking victory and the shocking reality that Rui had presented to all of them had washed away

was left feeling

pride in being a grade-twenty-four

had come terrifyingly close to that from the

to a man less than one-tenth his age who may very well have been a

jerk to my student," Master Reina grinned pridefully. He glared at

"Take out on him when

words pricked at

as compatibility went, he did not think he would be able to

don't think he's cleared so soon. If the Sage Council

His words were sharp.

the Martial Judiciary Delegation Act go, he has

waved Master Zentra off. "They are the Sage Council. Should they will that he

of Harmony," Master Zentra

The air grew heavy.

were talking about forces that not even they were qualified to

"Zentra is right."

through the air, drawing

Martial Sages will not undo what has happened." Master Sera smiled. "And even if they did, with the Emperor of Harmony returning, they will not be able to do anything without

of the various Martial Masters

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

message was

easily trigger the advent of the