The Martial Unity

The smallest of smiles seemed to emerge on Rui’s face.

His ethereal, pitch-black eyes lit up as an ocean of darkness within them stirred.

It didn’t matter if the situation was dire.

It didn’t matter if the air was one of terror and dread.

It didn’t matter if the atmosphere was saturated with the grief and despair of his compatriots and citizens.

In that moment, he only felt ecstasy.

He felt an existential joy as he activated his Realms of power.

BADUMP

His Martial Heart activated as the circulatory system in his transparent body began shining brighter than it ever had before, while his mind and soul surged, reaching unprecedented Realms of power.

RUMBLE!!!!!

The world shook as his Martial Embodiment emerged from deep within the depths of his very existence.

It spread across Kandria, reaching each and every single crevice, nook, and cranny.

It spread across the Panama, drowning all life in a gentle and loving embrace of warmth and power.

It spread across the world.

Each and every single person.

Each and every single life form.

From the smallest of bacteria to the largest of beasts.

“This…” Suneater’s eyes widened with ecstatic euphoria. “This is the water I sought!”

Each and every single one of them was touched by the unfettered power of Water.

And yet, they didn’t die.

They didn’t experience an extraordinary amount of information overload that would have eroded their consciousness and rendered them brain-dead.

No.

Instead, they felt a surge of euphoria.

They felt safer than they ever had in their entire lives.

As if they were embraced by a protective father.

The information contained in his Martial Embodiment was orders of magnitude lower than the information it had contained in the past, so much so that even an infant’s brain could tolerate it.

The change came because of the change in Rui’s very being and existence.

Because much of his body had become ethereal and invisible, it reduced the amount of information his Martial Embodiment could convey, because the information was conveyed through light, which his body reflected very little of due to his newly acquired hybrid nature.

It meant that he could deploy the entirety of his full power without any concern for the impact it would have on life itself.

His harmonious, ethereal eyes shone with unfathomable power.

Unfathomable power and unfathomable drive.

He turned towards Sentinel Prime ,charging at him in slow-motion, almost frozen in time dilation.

WHOOSH

Rui teleported to him, balling his fist as an extraordinary amount of power surged through his body while a layer of invintium emerged across his fist.

A single whisper escaped Rui.

“Convergence of Casimir.”

His ethereal voice spread through heaven and earth as his fist coursed towards Sentinel Prime with extraordinary force. What followed was the most painful blow that Sentinel Prime had ever experienced in his life.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!!!

The attack was so powerful that it punctured a hole through his reinforced flesh armor.

It was a proprietary technology of the sentinels, composed of electromagnetic layers of flesh whose durability was enhanced by an extraordinarily intense electromagnetic field across the grain of the flesh, turning into a virtually indestructible elastic armor that could withstand more punishment than almost any other pathwalker in the world.

And yet, not even that was enough to withstand the sheer force of Rui’s attack.

SPLAT!!!

Rui pulled his fist back out of the punctured wound before unleashing a second destructive blow aimed at the head of Sentinel Prime.

It was within NOVA’s prediction as his arms moved to block the powerful attack at precisely the right moment. Yet, what wasn’t within NOVA’s prediction was that Rui had already identified the resonance frequency of the sentinel’s skull.

With his enhanced ears, he could ’hear’ the resonant frequency.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

Sentinel Prime’s cybernetic eyes began bleeding as Rui’s destructively tremendous attack ravaged the sentinel’s skull, permeating his profoundly deep impact with just the right resonant frequency. He manipulated his DNA to increase the auditory permittivity of his body, magnifying the power of the attack by more than an order of magnitude.

If not for the stabilizing destructive resonance that his cranium’s vibration and suspension systems possessed, the attack would have reduced Sentinel Prime’s brain to pure mush.

It had already incapacitated the powerful sentinel to an extent, as extensive internal hemorrhaging had begun. Just like that, a powerful pathwalker of the top ten had been rendered almost powerless.

Rui’s third attack charged towards Sentinel Prime’s head with even greater force.

And yet, the sentinel was not Rui’s only enemy.

“Water. I seek water!”

RUMBLE!!!!!

The world was violently shaken as Suneater’s hand reached towards Rui, and the giant’s eyes were filled with a profound greed.

The gesture was slow, but it was so unfathomably destructive that it released astronomically powerful gale winds capable of reducing the Kandrian Empire to dust.

Rui’s ethereal eyes sharpened.

“I shall not allow any more destruction to befall my homeland.”

He activated the Forge of Creation to spontaneously create a new technique.

“Null Void.”

A domain of stillness, where all excessive motion was culled and negated, was placed over the Kandrian Empire. The gale winds that the Suneater released were countered by precisely opposing attacks that canceled out the technique.

Rui used his mastery of earthbending and the Scriptures of Terra to harmlessly disperse the seismic radiation.

Rui used his mastery of water with his Enlightenment of Water to disperse the tsunamis that the Suneater created, ensuring that their energy was spread so far and wide that it could not do any more damage to the Kandrian Empire.

Yet, negating the destructive onslaught brought about by the Suneater was no easy feat, even for Rui.

WHOOSH

Rui evaded the jab from the Suneater, only to find a plasma-laden fist from the Sentinel Prime slamming into him the moment he managed to extricate himself from the wide target area of the giant.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

The powerful blow blasted into Rui’s undefended body with extraordinary amounts of power and force as the plasma threatened to destroy Rui where he stood.

And yet, instead of burning him to ashes, the plasma embraced Rui.

CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE!

Sentinel Prime’s eyes widened with shock as he wielded the crackling plasma like armor.