The Martial Unity

Chapter 2570 No Harm No Foul

Chapter 2570 No Harm No Foul

"Fascinating..." Rui murmured as her Martial Art managed to stoke his curiosity and interest.

"Tsk," she tutted with anger as she launched both swords at him swiftly. WHOOSH WHOOSH!

"Woah," Rui exclaimed with surprise as the two weapons followed him around magically, threatening to decapitate or cleave him in half with each swing.

And yet, she had just begun.

Rui's Primordial Instinct rang alarm bells as it warned him of a myriad of projectiles surged towards him.

Shuriken.

"Seriously?" he muttered .

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH

He evaded the countless projectiles one after another.

Except, not really.

The shurikens followed him around just like the swords did, seemingly controlled magically by his opponent who only drew more weapons from her baggy clothes as she surged towards him with a spear in her hands.

"Oh, come on, where the hell did that come from?" Rui exclaimed with a hint of amazement.

From what he could tell, the spear was not foldable or anything like that; it was very solid and inflexible. With all the weapons of varying sizes converging on him from all directions, he decided that it was time to stop holding back. It was one thing to find an interesting Martial Art, it was another entirely to let his fascination become his defeat.

"Temporal Disharmony."

Her eyes widened with shock as the world around her sped up tremendously, accelerating to astronomical levels. Suddenly, it was as though her body had slowed in time, unable to go too fast in order to remain in track with her mind.

And this applied to the weapons that chased Rui around too; they too had grown slower.

This was evidence that the weapons were being manipulated by her actively as opposed to some sort of passive system that allowed the weapons to automatically converge upon him.

Unfortunately, she wasn't nearly as shaken as Rui would have liked. By now, most of his major technique systems were well known to his enemies due to how many times he had abused them in the war. "If you hamper my speed..." She gritted his teeth. "Then I will compensate with numbers!"

She wasn't lying.

Pure horror entered her eyes. "How...?"

"You control magnetic esoteric alloys by generating and alternating electromagnetic fields," Rui replied calmly. "It was but a simple matter for me to adaptively evolve to manipulate the permittivity of heaven and earth as a medium to make it entirely opaque and entirely resistant to electromagnetic flux."

This was a concept of electromagnetism that one could only know if one studied it academically. Martial Artists were only partially familiar with high principles through experience; they could not understand all the ways in which they could be applied nor could they understand all the ways in which they could be negated.

"Do you understand?" Rui's voice burned her. "This domain is your antithesis."

It ravaged her emotions.

"This is the Graveyard of Metal..." Rui's voice pierced her heart. "And this... is the Grave Uprising."

Rui manipulated heaven and earth to harness her own weapons against her, turning them against her.

Despair and horror unlike anything she had ever felt crushed her heart. She considered each weapon of hers to be like an offspring. A child that she had given birth to herself. To see them turning against her was the most excruciating agony she had suffered. Her horrified gaze shifted to Rui's eyes.

An endless darkness stirred in their depths.

An infinite void.

It consumed everything she had to offer.

Her weapons.

Her Martial Art.

Her techniques.

And even her path.

RUMBLE

Just as she felt her Martial Path about to be cracked under the weight of her despair and horror, Rui's fist crashed into her jaw, cleanly knocking her out. BAM!

THUD

Her unconscious body fell to the ground.

"...Phew," he heaved a sigh. "No harm, no foul."

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