The Martial Unity

Chapter 3284: Overflowing Passions

Rui gazed at her with amazement as he studied her body in detail.

Her supple, bronze skin.

Her amber eyes.

Her brown hair.

The contours of her feminine body.

She was beautiful.

And more importantly, she was strong.

BOOOM!

A tremendous palm blow ravaged his guard, launching him away as he used his root manipulation to bleed his momentum, using the Scriptures of Terra to stabilize himself almost immediately.

And yet, her palm had already arrived inches within him in the blink of an eye.

It was within his prediction.

WHOOSH

He had ducked, avoiding her destructive attack cleanly. He used the roots beneath his feet to launch himself away from her faster than he would be able to do by himself. And yet, despite his predictions, he wasn’t able to get out of a defensive deadlock, barely hanging on.

’My interface is delaying me.’

While she could manipulate nature with her thoughts alone, from the looks of it, Rui needed to Tapestry of Nature of convert his thoughts into a language that nature would understand. Then he needed to use Nature interfacer to send the necessary signals.

These two additional steps made it so that he was always slower than her, who had somehow managed to virtually become an elf.

Despite all his power, he couldn’t hold a candle to her when it came to absorbing something new and applying it toMartial Art.

She was on a whole different level when it came to turning something into a Martial Art. While Rui had to use his extraordinary intelligence and systems of thought to turn nature manipulation into a Martial Art, she didn’t need to do anything.

”Everything is Martial Art.”

Her voice was one of unyielding certainty.

Her nature manipulation only continued improving with each passing second as he watched her grow stronger and stronger. With each passing second, every attack she landed on him only served as fuel to make her stronger and stronger.

The rate at which she grew stronger only rose, growing faster and faster.

In that moment, even as he gazed deep into her eyes, he could sense no limit to her potential.

Even at this altar of power at the peak of the Sage Realm, her potential for growth was bottomless.

All the world was merely a source of power.

A source of Martial Art.

Even as he gazed into her bright amber eyes, he could sense two emotions.

A pure passion and a bright ecstasy, the kind of light that overwhelmed anybody who gazed into the depths of her eyes.

And another emotion.

A drive and determination for power.

For the first time in all the time he had known her, he felt more attracted to the latter.

Before, she simply grew stronger without caring for power.

It meant that she grew stronger without even trying.

He had always wondered what would happen if she truly tried.

What would happen if she gained an extraordinary drive for power and actually did her best to utilize her kinesthetic learning to actively grow stronger?

The intense drive and determination that Esil had held as the Martial, and the boundless kinesthetic learning ability of Amare combined, proved to be the most powerful combination of explosive growth of learning.

It inspired a sublime sense of euphoria unlike anything he had ever felt.

”You are beautiful no matter who you are.”

His words were reduced to a whisper.

In that moment, he felt a warm gush emerging from his heart, spreading to the rest of his body.

It wasn’t his Martial Heart.

It was the way things were supposed to be.

”I love you no matter who you are.”

WHOOSH

Amare’s bright amber eyes widened as her blow crashed into an empty image.

A feint.

CLASP

She felt his warmth as he embraced her body from her head to toe, as their hearts pressed against each other. Rui’s arms wrapped around her waist and torso, pulling her into his arms as he enveloped her in an unyielding grip, pressing her into him.

What was supposed to be a gesture of grappling melted into a gesture of affection as he simply relished in the warmth of her presence.

CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE...

The trees and woods emerged from around them as his will, coiling them together in a cocoon that gently nested the two of them within it.

Amare blushed as she gazed deep into his eyes, as little flowers of light illuminated the dark cocoon, cut off from the rest of the world.

It illuminated his gentle expression.

Her resistance had melted away as she felt his heart beating against her through her chest.

Rui smiled at her with affection and love in his eyes.

”My victory, then.”

”...No fair,” she murmured with an embarrassed tone.

Rui’s sweet smile deepened as he leaned in closer.

Their lips met in a passionate kiss as his hands gently brushed across every inch of her body.

His touch was electrifying.

It sent her nervous system into an overdrive mode as love and passion overswept her entire body. Rui simply let himself feel the long-lost love he had for her as he passionately kissed her, his hands running across the contours of her body.

His heart began beating faster and faster.

It began beating harder.

The odor of her sweat, along with her floral scent, excited him as he relished in her flesh, gently disrobing her body as he began shedding his own Martial attire.

Their breathing grew heavy while their hearts beat faster as their bodies became one.

RUMBLE

The outside world shook as periodic waves of seismic radiation swept across the entirety of the Forest of War, emerging from the cocoon that they were within.

Mother Alicia, on the other hand, simply stood in the sky with an awkward expression as she scratched her chin.

”Is it mating season for them already?”

She simply heaved an amused sigh as she cut off the cocoon from the Greater Genoran Flora Network, ensuring that they had their privacy, before returning to her main body.