The Martial Unity

"AAAAAAAARGH!" Kane continued speeding through the forest without even a hint of slowing down.

Unfortunately, the region was too dangerous for them to run through it at such high speeds without running into threats.

THUD

"OUCH!" Kane cradled his head as he ran into a gigantic boulder, blasting into it powerfully.

Except the collision made the boulder bleed red blood.

Which made him realize it wasn't a boulder at all.

It was the toe of a giant primate.

Its toe was so large that it was easy to mistake it for a giant boulder. Yet when one beheld its entire body, the true size of the creature became clear to all of them. Each strand of fur was like a large pillar to Rui and Kane. Its entire body was absolutely enormous as a whole.

"Hrrfff…" it huffed lightly as it noticed incredibly minute but strangely powerful creatures that pricked at its toe.

It was somewhat unusual as size usually had a strong correlation with power in the Beast Domain. While there were plenty of notable exceptions, a large majority of powerful creatures that could only be dealt with by Martial Artists of higher Realms were powerful because of their size.

Its eyes widened with hunger as it felt the remarkable potent power of the Martial Heart.

Powerful predators required powerful prey. After all, they needed a source of energy to sustain their incredible power.

Rui's expression grew grave as its hand reached out to the two of them, eager to pick them up and gobble its small but powerful prey in a single go.

Yet, what was a simple, relaxed gesture to the primate was nothing short of a life-threatening attack of devastating power to Rui and Kane!

"AAAAAARGHH!!!" Kane tried running away from the creature in raw terror and in vain.

"Hrrf…" it huffed as its hand surged forward, reaching for him.

BOOOM!!!

Rui's expression grew fierce as he blasted the enormous hand away with a powerful tier-five Transverse Resonance.

It took him his most powerful attack just to deflect a relaxed and casual gesture.

The eyes of the primate turned aggressive. It inhaled deeply, causing an enormous suction force that pulled Kane back even as he tried running away at top speed in a panic.

WHOOOOOOSH!

"Rgh!" Rui gritted his teeth, doing his best to resist the suction force as his expression grew grave.

He knew what was to come.

And it came swiftly.

'Breathing Crucifix!'

"RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGRHHRGHR!" The creature let out a bellow that was more powerful than anything he had ever heard in his entire life.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

The sheer power of the scream had it not been dispersed, would have killed Rui and Kane then and there. Rui had pulled Kane to him while barely firing off a tier-five Transverse Resonance to neutralize as much of the power as he could.

Yet, not even that was enough.

"Rgh!" The two of them grimaced as a devastatingly powerful impact crashed into them. Even though it was just a tiny speck of the total power of the bellow, it still overwhelmed Rui's counter.

BOOOOOM!!!

Vegetation was erased.

Land was uprooted.

RUMBLE!

Heaven and earth screamed as the wave of pure destruction went on to annihilate all the land around them, yielding a crater far larger than anything Rui had ever seen. It was as though an enormous meteorite had struck the region, wiping out all life within a dozen kilometers of the impact, leaving only a deep abyss formed by its sheer power.

Not even Chairman Deacon's suicide bomb had unleashed such world-shattering devastation.

Not even the Gatekeeper at the very pinnacle of his output had matched the sheer destruction that had graced the world.

The attack had knocked Kane out, breaking most of the bones in his body even after Rui shielded him with Nemean Blossom while he himself had been left bleeding across his body.

Rui's expression grew grave as the powerful creature approached them with greater eagerness and hunger. What was an extraordinarily powerful

Rui grew grave as he activated a powerful Mind Mask, flaring as much bloodlust as he could.

It was a Master-level Mind Mask.

The obsidian wyverns, being extremely sensitive to fear, had been able to see through it, but he highly doubted that a dim-

witted primate would be able to.

He was right.

Unfortunately, what he was wrong about was believing that being stronger would deter the creature away from him.

He was dead wrong.

A fake Master-level aura erupted from deep within Rui's mind.

The many Senior-level creatures in the region ran away in fear.

However, while it drove away weaker creatures, it only drew stronger creatures!

It only drew other Master-level beasts from across the entire region who sensed the projected bloodlust.

It was a challenge.

It was a mistake.

RUMBLE!!!

Rui shuddered with horror as he understood the blunder of his choice.

The first to arrive was a crow so enormous that its wings were as large as the town of Hajin. They snuffed out the sunlight, returning the entire region to darkness. Its pitch-

black eyes bore into Rui's, evaluating him.

SSSSSS!

Chills crawled across his skin as a giant cobra slithered to the area from the forest of the region, crushing mountain ranges as it made its way to Rui, its tongue flicking up and down.

CLICK CLICK CLICK

His horror only grew when he saw a massive spider emerge from the region. Despite its enormous size, it didn't so much as send even a slight tremor or release the slightest vibration.

Yet the feat only shook him more.

BOOOOOOOOM!!!

Rui's eyes widened with shock as a tsunami erupted from the sea in the region, rushing over to where he Rui was.

Yet the water never dispersed.

It stayed together, slowing down. Within it, an enormous shark comfortably swam, manipulating the water to remain around it.

RUMBLE!!!

An unfathomable amount of seismic radiation erupted from deep within the land. An enormously large and powerful creature hurtled towards Rui from underground.

BOOOOOM!!!!

Rui froze in terror as he recognized the enormous mountain of a creature rising from within the ground.

An earthen basilisk.

One that had managed to survive and consume long enough to become a Master-level creature.

The six Master-level creatures of the region had arrived at the challenge that Rui had issued to all of them, beholding him Rui with bloodlust.

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