The Martial Unity

While Senior Sarak and Xanarn fought against their respective foes, Senior Leonil had gotten entangled with several Martial Seniors himself.

His Martial Heart blazed with power as he inhaled deeply.

What followed shocked the three Kaddar Martial Seniors. 

His lungs turned into a black hole of air as he inhaled deeply. The air above and even beyond the island shook as he seemingly consumed the atmosphere voraciously.

A single breathing technique disrupted the weather patterns across the entirety of the Kaddar Region.

The sheer amount of air that he consumed caused low-pressure regions to develop above the Erionel Kingdom. 

Yet that wasn’t all.

The low-pressure zones above the Erionel Kingdom accelerated the formation of cumulonimbus clouds.

The sky’s composition changed as a result.

Senior Leonil’s Martial Art was so powerful that its after-effects would bring about a rainstorm in the middle of the dryest parts of summer for the Erionel Kingdom. He lashed forward attacking them with the might he gained from the breathing technique.

“Incredible,” Rui murmured as he observed all three fights between the two sides from a safe distance with the help of Tempestuous Feel and Seismic Mapping.

The three Martial Seniors of the Floating Sect were even more impressive than he had given them credit for. The sheer combat prowess that they were displaying at the moment was on par with what he witnessed from Senior Ceeran on Vilun Island against the two Martial Seniors from the K’ulnen Tribe.

Senior Sarak was an immovable pillar, he reminded Rui of Hever, someone who dedicated themselves to a single technique and a narrow field. Like Hever, this man was a counter-offensive specialist. However, his Martial Art had a greater emphasis on a passive defensive element while Hever’s Martial Art was a bit more active and offensive. 

Rui was rather impressed with how the man literally never moved from his place and fought despite being stationary and unmoving in a prayer position. It was a novel way of fighting and one that he did not see everywhere.

Senior Leonil’s Martial Art was quite astonishingly powerful and yet had fallen within Rui’s expectations. His deduction was correct, his Martial Art was centered around breathing. He was quite similar to Ian Nepomniachtchi. Rui was not very fond of him, but he did have to admit that his breathing techniques were quite powerful.

Senior Xanarn’s true prowess was one among the three that had fallen the most within his Martial Art. Partially because he had the best understanding of her Martial Art. Although she had used nowhere near her full power when she sparred against Rui, it was also true that she had exploited her Martial Art to the very best barring her Martial Heart. His predictive model was still decently effective despite it. He needed to strain his Tempestuous Feel and Seismic mapping to the limit to sense her despite that.

Thankfully, the former was especially empowered on Ajanta Island. It allowed him to get a good view of the battle, especially of techniques centered around the air through which he was sensing the battle.

However, even then, he truly had difficulty sensing the initial parts of the battle. He needed to focus every ounce of his attention on their movements to properly register them. Furthermore, it definitely helped that he was perceiving them from a distance. It was always easier to perceive motion from a distance due to the fact that moving objects shifted less in one’s field of perception. 

It was one of the reasons that humans could perceive rocket take-offs or the revolving moon that all moved at speeds that were far above what the mind could perceive and process under normal circumstances.

That was the reason he was able to keep up with their movements despite their blindingly high speed. 

He did his best to keep track of all battles but soon realized that it was almost impossible for him at this stage.

After all, he wasn’t just keeping track of them, he was also analyzing them, rooting out their patterns, and building predictive models.

However, even for Rui, building nine predictive models, that too that of Martial Seniors who were each quite challenging and consuming to keep track of, was too much.

Furthermore, because the fights were happening in locations separated from each other, it was best for Rui to focus on one set of Martial Seniors at a time. He didn’t fault them for doing that, it made sense to split up considering that their Martial Art all relied on the environment of Ajanta Island, they could not make the best use of the environment if all three of them were doing so in extreme vicinity of each other.

They would only get in each other’s way.

Regardless, he decided to pick one of the three to observe at this point in time.

(‘Senior Xanarn it is.’) 

He didn’t pick her just because he liked her, but also because he already had a predictive model on her, which made it easier for him to keep up with the fight. The better he could keep up with the fight, the quicker he would be able to form a predictive model on her opponents.

It was objectively the best option at hand. Unless the Kaddar Treaty Organization randomly subbed out those exact three Martial Seniors next time, it would pay really well.

Rui analyzed her opponents deeply. This was the first time he had come across a chain-axe user, so he paid special attention to him. The other two possessed more mundane Martial Paths, and he wasn’t too concerned about being caught off-guard there.

The fight progressed, and it became easier and easier for Rui to form predictive models on the three of them as their Martial Hearts burned their energy throughout the fight, causing them to lose the explosiveness that they possessed at the beginning of the fight.

As it became easier and easier, he did his best to strengthen the foundation of the predictive models before the fight ended.