The Martial Unity

The crux of the attack was Rui.

The blood-red Sun shining in the depths of his eyes with blinding brightness was

nothing short of beacons of hope and salvation for not just the Martial Sages, but the entire world.

Even as they beheld him standing in the skies, gazing straight into the trillion eyes of the eldritch chimera at eye-level with fearsome determination, they couldn’t help but grow profoundly emboldened in their confidence to win the battle.

“Victory is ours as long as we have the Dawnbringer.”

This firm truth rooted itself within almost all of them.

“DESTROY THE BEAST!” The Devil snarled with a feral delight as the Singularities of Destruction in his palms returned to their offensive onslaught. Very quickly, he began carving away piece after piece with his unfathomable power of destruction, ravaging away at the eldritch chimera.

Their greatest offensive force had returned to play.

It wasn’t just him.

The Reverend of Reckoning and Bodhisattva Maitreyi returned to their full combat viability, no longer targeted by the eldritch chimera that was too busy shuddering with pain and agony in the enhanced domains of the Dawnbringer’s Hellheim.

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Every single Martial Sage of human civilization rallied, led by the Dawnbringer, as they worked to whittle away at the eldritch chimera. It was almost hard for them to believe that they were overcoming a Transcendent creature themselves.

And yet, they were.

The eldritch chimera had never experienced such pain and agony from the very day it was born more than a thousand years ago.

The trillion minds and brains in its skull surged with thought as they parsed its almost unbelievable circumstances.

It was supposed to be the guardian.

And yet, it was now being ravaged by individuals of the continent.

That too, lesser beings.

These weren’t the godly Transcendents of human civilization that had managed to deter their personal actions into the destruction of human civilization.

No, these were lesser Martial Artists who had yet to reach that threshold of power.

One moment, it was dominating all of them, on the very precipice of a quick victory.

The very next moment, it found itself under a domineering assault that weathered away its resistance and power.

What had changed?

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In the blink of an eye, all trillion of its eyes shifted, focusing on the Dawnbringer.

It gazed into the blood-red Suns of blinding power in the depths of his eyes.

This one.

This one was the reason.

This one was its foundation for defeat.

Without this one, the others didn’t stand a chance.

RUMBLE!!!!!!!!!

The world shook violently as an inhuman, monstrous bloodlust surged within the depths of all trillion eyes.

A single resolution flared within absolute certainty within the hybrid mind of the

creature.

Kill.

RUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

The monster began to unfurl its true power as each of the trillion lifeforms that were a part of the creature unveiled their power. The very fabric of space and time seemed to curl as the eldritch chimera manipulated them to direct all of its power against the Dawnbringer with a violent wave of destruction.

Rui’s eyes widened as an unfathomable wave of power surged to reach him, crushing his entire body into a pulp.

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CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK!!!

SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT!!!

Each and every bone in his body cracked as his skin and flesh tore under the focused destruction of the attack that the eldritch chimera unleashed upon him. Unfortunately for the creature, Rui had most certainly not forgotten to consume a

healing fruit himself.

WHOOSH

In the blink of an eye, it had restored his body as he continued the Hellheim technique, launching as much pain and destruction upon the eldritch chimera as he possibly could. A small smile cracked at the edge of his mouth as the SOUL System allowed him to detect pure anger, hatred, and frustration across all one trillion minds of the eldritch chimera.

A single whisper escaped him.

“What you have done to human civilization across countless battles in the Beast Incursion, I will do to you in a single battle.”

RUMBLE!!!!!!!!!

The world shook violently as an even greater, forbidden source of power emerged from within the depths of his very being. The shining red lines of power of the Martial Heart that ran across his entire body grew brighter and brighter with each passing second.

He shined like a star, illuminating the entire battle.

“With the Fruit of Healing, I can now use this forbidden technique once more.”

BADUMP!!!!!!

He activated all Metabody techniques at once.

It was a forbidden technique that he only used in the most dire of situations due to the fact that the technique would literally kill him if used long enough. The last time he had used it was decades ago in his battle against the Gatekeeper, and only because the man himself had used a forbidden technique.

This time, he used it knowing full well that the Fruit of Healing had him covered and left. him no longer needing to worry about dying.

BADUMP!!!!!

Each heartbeat shook the world beneath his feet like a meteorite impact. Time slowed down to a crawl in his eyes as his body felt like it was being set on fire. His skin and flesh strained, tearing at several spots as blood splurted out of several wounds that emerged on his body spontaneously. His bones and joints creaked under the sheer stress and strain of the forbidden technique rapidly mounting on his body.

His inner body grew numerous with internal wounds that began hemorrhaging blood

profusely.

And yet, in the blink of an eye, it was restored.

The blood-red Suns shining in the depths of his eyes flared with blinding brightness, growing brighter and brighter with each passing second.

They become supernovas.

In that moment, he knew.

He knew that this was the very pinnacle of power that he was able to bring out.

An elusive peak that he would be prohibited from once the healing fruit wore off.

And yet, in that moment, he was the strongest he had ever been in his entire life.

RUMBLE!!!!!!

The world shook as Rui surged forth towards the eldritch chimera with a blindingly high

speed!