The Martial Unity
chapter-1710

Another advantage he had was that he knew what they knew, but they didn't know what he knew. In other words, he was the one ambushing them, not the other way around.

This is why he could set traps to catch them off-guard.

The final advantage he had was that they were operating on what was essentially misinformation in regards to his power level. That was a huge advantage that would do him well at the beginning of the fight.

"Huff…" He exhaled lightly. "I just have to hope that that does me well enough."

Days passed as Rui trained hard, preparing for the dreaded day.

Eventually, it came.

Two weeks had passed since the briefing. And the day of the assassinations had finally arrived.

Master Reina's body had morphed to match his silhouette as she donned the Voidreaper attire, heading off to complete the pre-assassination protocol.

His death-wishers were deliberately staying away from the assassination. M was nowhere near the location of the assassination, as far as he could tell.

That made sense. It was best to ensure that there were no inconveniences.

In the past two weeks, he had thoroughly prepared himself for the assassination. He had also gotten a good full night's sleep the night prior, having completely refreshed his mind and body.

He opened his eyes, leaving a deep meditative state to condition and temper his mind.

The atmosphere was tense.

"Are you ready, arrogant boy?" Master Gurren asked.

"I am," his voice was calm and composed.

Yet it was also steely and firm.

"Good," Master Gurren nodded. "Now get going. And survive. I still need you to teach me that Parallax Method."

"Hah…" Rui chuckled. "Of course."

Sometimes, the Martial Master just could not be honest.

He got up, leaving the mountain the Master resided upon, heading out down his regular path through the Great Jrava Mountain range that he had been following for nearly two years now.

As he got closer and closer to the point of assassination, the atmosphere became heavier.

His demeanor remained unchanged on the surface.

But inwardly, he grew graver and graver.

Soon enough, he had crossed the entirety of the Great Jrava Mountain Range. There was a camping convoy of various travelers that had happened to be conveniently set-up around at various spots where he would normally stop.

Quite conveniently, it circled him.

It was time.

STEP

He landed on the ground.

His demeanor was nonchalant.

Like it was just another day doing the same old thing that he did yesterday and would be doing tomorrow.

Yet everybody around knew that it wasn't just another day.

The moment had arrived.

WHOOSH

Rui's eyes widened as he felt a deep sense of peril from behind him.

BOOM!!!

A fake expression of shock and bewilderment arose on his face as he just barely managed to evade a double-fisted hammer fist with his Martial Heart.

RUMBLE!

The very lands beneath them shook under the weight of his attack,

Had it struck Rui…he would be dead.

He had narrowly avoided death.

Rui's eyes narrowed as he beheld his first opponent.

The man was gargantuan. A single one of his arms dwarfed Rui in size; he was inhumanly big and had an unbelievable stature. A wild grin appeared on his face as he didn't give Rui even the slightest chance to gather his bearings.

He opened his mouth, sucking air with a powerful inhaling force.

Yet it wasn't the gesture that stunned Rui; it was what followed.

An enormous, powerful suction force between them emerged, pulling everything towards the man.

His arms waited in anticipation, ready to crush Rui with the unfathomable weight of his powerful hammer blows.

This was the Hammerer, a powerful high-grade assassin who haplessly dragged his victims away from a distance and then pounded them to death with a single blow from his astronomical striking power.

His Martial Body was centered around power. Centered around the respiratory power and striking power of his Martial Art.

Yet, Rui had no intention of dying.

His eyes bore into the Hammerer's.

'Breathing Crucifix.'

"Hnnng!" The man choked.

His eyes widened with shock as he noticed that the suction force had reduced by more than half!

His lungs felt shackled.

They felt labored.

Like someone had attached weights to them.

He didn't understand.

Yet he could afford to try understanding, either.

He had a target to kill.

He had already flubbed his ambush, allowing Rui to avoid instantaneous death.

And now, the man had somehow sealed his breathing power!

Yet, just when he thought it was over, Rui's arms stretched out towards him.

Two words escaped his mouth.

"Heavenly Convergence."

Rui hated that he needed to utter the new name of the technique born from Project Skyfall out loud. The name was surprisingly literal, for it did converge the weight of the heavens on his target. He even liked the name; he just hated actually saying it in combat.

"It's a matter of psychological association and trigger," Master Gurren had told him many months ago in training. "Do you want to reach passive domain mastery or not?"

Yet, regardless of his sentiments, the domain technique unfurled.

It bore its power to the world.

RUMBLE!

The very fabric of heaven and earth shook.

It bent.

Bent to the will of Rui Quarrier.

Every vector in the air.

Every vector in the land.

He gently ushered them in a single direction.

Towards a single person.

BOOM!!!

AARGRGRHHRHRH!!!" The Hammerer bellowed as he gritted his teeth.

His joints creaked.

His muscles shuddered.

His flesh wrung.

He felt like a mountain had been placed on his shoulders in all directions.

His suction technique was overwhelmed as a tsunami of vectors crashed into him from the front.

"ACK!" He choked even further!

He was entirely unable to breathe.

Yet Rui had no intention of letting him gather his bearings.

CLASP!

His arms coiled around the man's neck as he squeezed hard, crushing it.

A rear chokehold was a simple maneuver, even if deadly. He was barely able to use it simultaneously with Heavenly Convergence, allowing him to hamper the man's breathing in three different manners.