The Martial Unity

2865  Metal Civilization

RUMBLE!!!

The world shook.

It shook as Rui surged towards Esocline Federation at top speed.

His Martial Heart, Mind, and Soul surged with extraordinary power as he flew across the Panama Continent with a tremendous velocity. The sheer force of his flight ravaged heaven and earth.

Each step he took triggered nuclear explosions due to the immense pressure in each of his steps. The atmosphere was incinerated by the friction of his extraordinarily swift acceleration through the Panama Continent as he traveled North-West at a tremendously high speed.

One moment, he was in the Kandrian Empire.

The very next?

It was well behind him in the distance.

WHOOSH!!!

Even as he coursed through the Panama Continent at a high speed, he could witness the changes that the Beast Incursion had gone through in the past few months while he was asleep dealing with the consequences of Gigabrain abuse.

The Beast Incursion had grown more intense.

The density of beasts and monsters had increased to a far greater degree than it ever had in the past. He could see that human polities were struggling to deal with the resurgence in the density of beasts and monsters. If not for Rui’s gifts, the situation would have been significantly worse and plummeting even further, with scarce and weaker Martial Artists without the Hellbringer Model that would have deprived them of the necessary power against beasts and monsters.

The nations in East Panama had had the Hellbringer for long than most, allowing them to have gained a more thorough mastery in its power than many of the later nations that Rui had visited.

And even then, it became increasingly clear to him that humanity was pressed because of the destruction of the Gu. The powerhouse which previously absorbed a piece of the entirety of the Beast Incursion was now gone. And the consequences of that were thrust upon the entire world. Of course, the consequences of letting the Demon of Asmodeous live were even worse, of course. But it didn’t change the reality that the difficulty of surviving the Beast Incursion and the probability of failure were now both ten percent higher than it had been before.

And even though he could see the plight of the many nations and states across East Panama, he didn’t stop to help them. He had already helped them tremendously.

“Amare comes first.”

She had done much for the world.

He saw the respite and relief that a lot of people that they had helped had had on their face and in their minds from the tenets of her teachings. She had helped people tremendously and now she was the one who was in need of help. He had no intention of dedicating even a sliver of his time and energy to anybody except Amare.

He didn’t care if the world was burning.

She was more important to him than the world. RUMBLE!!!

His eyes flared with determination as he deployed gravitational waves to manipulate the very fabric of space and time to propel himself forward with tremendous speed and momentum.

And even as he did that, he held Amare with all the care in the world. His grip over her was soft, he cradled her body in her arms with warm affection while deploying her power to ensure that she didn’t experience even the slightest bit of discomfort.

A journey that would have taken him months, because he couldn’t afford to use his Realms of power, and because the dangers were high, was completed in less than a day.

WHOOSH

He stopped midair in the skies as he gazed down at his destination in the distance.

The Esocline Federation.

It was unlike anything he had ever seen in his entire life.

The nation was comprised of massive metal structures spanning the nation. A prominent grid of glowing lines coursed through the entirety of the nation, supplying energy to the vast machinery spread across the entire nation.

He couldn’t help but note the inhuman seismic signature of the entire nation, comprised of the mechanical hums of machinery and rolling wheels rather than foot steps of actual human beings. The massive metal structures erected across the small nation were enormous in size, making the nation feel even smaller.

The border fort wall that ran across the perimeter was not actually a wall.

It was a defensive line of densely packed siege weapons on such a scale that one could easily mistake it for a border wall.

BOOOOOM BOOOOOM BOOOOOM!!!!!

Innumerable beams and projectiles of all kinds emerged from the countless siege weapons across the wall, keeping the relentless beast tides at bay. That wasn’t all.

BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM!!!

Squadrons of humanoid machines surged emerging from the depths of the Esocline Federation engaged the beasts and monsters at bay, staving of the Beast Incursion that ravaged against the defensive lines.

MECHAs.

Rui’s eyes lit up with faint interest as not even he could stop himself from studying the various MECHAs that emerged from the depths of the Esocline Federation. On top of that, he could even sense that the Hellbringer Model that Rui had created had been incorporated into the machine, a feat that surprised Rui. The MECHAs were designed the whole purpose of being antithetical to beasts and monsters within the Martial Path of the Martial Artists in question.

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He could sense Apprentices.

Squires.

And even Seniors, much to his immense surprise.

“…He must have made deals with my father for access to the manifold in the past four years.”

He also must have borrowed Ieyasu for breakthroughs.

Regardless, Rui was truly impressed that MECHA Martial Art had already reached the Senior Realm.

Additionally, they were among the strongest Seniors that Rui had ever seen.

BOOOOOM!!!

They unleashed quasi-Master-level attacks like it was nothing, utter eviscerating Senior-level beasts and allowing them to survive some Master-level beasts.

On top of that, he could even sense that the Hellbringer Model that Rui had created had been incorporated into the machine, a feat that surprised Rui. The MECHAs were designed the whole purpose of being antithetical to beasts and monsters within the Martial Path of the Martial Artists in question.

However, the Esocline Federation wasn’t merely limited to siege weapons and MECHAs. Rui spotted a diverse array of technological paradigms including drones, land mines, biological warfare, and numerous other means of killing off as many beasts and monsters as possible. He spotted more enhanced humans serving as powerful support units holding, ensuring that the primary solutions of the Esocline Federation were effective against the beast and monsters.

The Esocline Federation was far more technologically diverse than pretty much every other nation that spammed siege weapons with essentially no other technology.