The Martial Unity

She wasn’t the only one of her generation who had managed to break through to the Master Realm, of course.

CLASP

Hever’s hands clasped the flesh of an earthen dragon before subjecting it to tremendous torque that completely destabilized the creature, knocking it down with great force.

BOOOOOM!!!

His eyes sharpened as he leveraged his own body weight, cracking the skull of the creature with the sheer impact, before intercepting another monster with his powerful grip and flip. Despite the power that he gained and the years that he lived, he had still remained faithful to his Meteoric Throw technique, simply enhancing and strengthening with an increasingly more powerful set of principles.

Max and Mana coursed through the battlefield in unison with fiercely narrowed eyes as they unleashed a barrage of attacks one after another to destroy as many monsters and beasts as possible. Their greatest concern, however, was maximizing their safety rather than maximizing their impact on the battlefield.

They had a city to return to.

They had Arastia to return to.

They had grown deeply attached to her and wanted to ensure that there was no chance of anything happening to them that would prevent them from returning home to her. Thus, they stuck together, maximizing their teamwork and their cohesion while they moved about the battlefield as a single unit.

Master Vericita surged through the battlefield, unleashing powerful breathing techniques that would shred Master-level beasts and monsters with singular attacks, allowing her to supplement the lower end of Martial Masters fighting against the quasi-Sage beasts. In the past ten years, she had reached the very peak of the Master Realms, as had a lot of Martial Masters of the Kandrian Empire.

Reina was no different.

She flashed about the battlefield as a silent shadow, assassinating beasts and monsters in their face as she left corpses in her wake with each step she took. Her combat power had risen tremendously, reaching the very peak of the Master Realm for quite some time. With the Martial Sages gone, there was virtually nobody that she couldn’t assassinate in the Sage Realm, giving her much leverage as she coursed through the battlefield with victim after victim.

The Kandrian Empire had the highest number of Martial Master peaks relative to the rest of the world at a whopping six.

It allowed them to deal with virtually any attack that came against them. Except, of course, when they were caught off-guard.

RUMBLE!!!

In the distance, a second wave of Sage-level beasts emerged, alarming many Martial Masters. A wave of dragons, phoenixes, and all manner of earthborne and airborne beasts and monsters coursed towards the defensive line of the Kandrian Empire. An anomaly.

“ROOOAAARRR!!!”

“KRRRIIIEEEKKK!!!”

“RAAAWWWRRR!!!”

They came faster and stronger than any of them could have ever predicted. Worst of all, they managed to evade the siege weapons that should have originally softened them up according to protocol.

In other words, they were dealing with Sage-level beasts and monsters head-on. The Martial Masters gritted their teeth as they braced themselves for an incoming attack that would ravage their numbers.

The air grew electric with peril as the Martial Masters rallied to face the second assault from the beasts and monsters in one shift.

The atmosphere grew grave as they grew more outnumbered than they could possibly sustain.

Ieyasu’s eyes narrowed as he pulled out a large medallion.

An esoteric artifact with esoteric substances able to produce little pockets of space-time where things could be stored.

WHOOSH

In the blink of an eye, a MECHA emerged around him, enveloping him in its entirety with him at the very center of the frame as a wired helmet covered the entirety of the skull, serving as one of the more modern neural interfaces that the Esoterist has developed with the help of the Psycher.

The frame of the machine was ominously pitch black with a highly reflective surface. The physical configuration of the MECHA was balanced between mass, power, and maneuverability in an all-rounder generalist division of resources. A powerful set of thrusters operating on an esoteric liquid fuel roared to life as the MECHA hovered midair while the engine core with Ieyasu at its very epicenter also churned with life.

VMMM!!!

The powerful machine hummed with a tremendous outflow of power, sending chills down the spines of all those who beheld the extraordinary machine as the machine fully revved to a state of great power and life.

RUMBLE!!!

Heaven and earth shook as the extraordinary engine-core of the machine began generating an astronomical amount of energy, far exceeding even the sum totality of the output of all other Martial Masters combined.

The sheer intensity of the energy that it generated began weighing heavily on the very fabric of space and time.

The Kandrian Martial Masters grew aghast as they felt a realm of peril that far exceeded that of the Master Realm, displaying the kind of presence that only Martial Sages could have released.

VMMM!!!

Each motion, the MECHA unleashed powerful seismic and sonic radiation as it mirrored the movements that Ieyasu made within it in the depths of the engine core. He sharpened his gaze as he unleashed every ounce of power within his Body, Heart, and Mind as his Martial Embodiment emerged from the MECHA, swallowing the entire world.

The information density and flux of the Embodiment that ensued enveloped the entire battlefield and beyond. A kaleidoscopic fractal mirror with all manners of techniques, Martial Art, and now, even esoteric technology integrated into the giant mental construct.

It was beyond anything the human mind could handle.

Many Martial Masters found themselves paralyzed under the sheer information that bore down on them, even as a single whisper escaped him.

“MECHA Hellbringer Armageddon.”

A technique that evolved Hellbringer Armageddon by assimilating the power of his MECHA into it. It unleashed a hive of antithetical domains that would reduce even a nation to dust.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

What ensued was a tremendous explosion of power emerging from the MECHA that amplified his attack by orders of magnitude as it swallowed whole the second tide of Sage-level beasts and monsters.

RUMBLE!!!

The Martial Masters gritted their teeth as they retreated, distancing themselves from the battlefield, lest they get caught up in the sheer destructive power that swallowed their enemies.

A minute passed before the sheer onslaught of power was unleashed from the destructive attack of the MECHA.

RUMBLE…

The results were unfathomable.

He had single-handedly reshaped the very topography of the battlefield, rendering any and all maps entirely outdated.

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