The Martial Unity

RUMBLE!!!

The world shook as the entity unleashed tremendously powerful plasma canon converged upon the Gatekeeper’s burning head.

It grinned malevolently as the extraordinary power it unleashed threatened to erase the Gatekeeper’s head.

An attack he couldn’t possibly survive.

CLASP

The cyborg entity’s eyes widened as the Gatekeeper’s hands lunged for its neck, gripping its throat, before squeezing as hard as possible.

“Arck…!” The cyborg entity choked even as the Gatekeeper’s hands crushed the creature’s neck with extraordinary force.

Sir Armstrong’s raw physicality was second to none.

He was by far the most powerful in this regard with a Martial Body that was naturally as strong as that of a peak Martial Senior, able to exert an astronomical amount of pressure on the cyborg entity’s extraordinary neck.

In an instant, the cyborg entity was unable to breathe.

In an instant, blood to its brain, the one organ that has not been mechanized, had halted.

The entity’s cybernetic eyes widened as pure panic began to set in.

Its heartrate increased tremendously as it fight or flight instinct kicked in.

A flood of adrenaline coursed through its cyborg body as the entity gritted its teeth, unleashing an astronomically tremendous wave of power as it began straining its plasma canon system.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!!!

The very fabric of space and time began rippling as the cyborg entity pushed its plasma canons as hard as it possibly could.

RUMBLE!!!

Heaven and earth quaked as the cyborg entity pushed its antimatter reactor to the very brink of existence, funneling as much power as it could into killing the Gatekeeper as soon as possible.

RUMBLE!!!!!

The very skies began crackling with charged plasma while the waters of the Great Nam Ocean beneath them began boiling.

A extraordinarily destructive wave of power far outstripping anything it had unleashed before drowned the Gatekeeper’s head.

So much so that the entity couldn’t even see his head anymore.

And yet, it could feel the grip of Sir Armstrong’s hands tightening around its neck. With the sheer intensity of the Gatekeeper’s powerful grip, the cyborg entity could feel an extraordinarily intense building up in its chest, threatening to choke the very life out of it.

Despite the sheer intensity with which the entity unleashed powerful plasma waves that ravaged the Gatekeeper’s head, the powerful grip around the entity’s neck never ceased.

It felt pressure mounting up internally within its head.

It struggled to inhale even an ounce of air.

The pale white skin of its face grew red with stress.

Its cybernetic eyes began spasming unstably.

Its body shuddered as it desperately unleashed all its power with the sole goal of destroying the Gatekeeper’s head.

And yet, the grip around its neck only tightened.

Its vision began blurring as the world began going red in its cybernetic eyes.

Its body began losing power as its systems were increasingly deprived of oxygen while its brain was denied both oxygen and blood.

It felt a wave of weakness washing over its entire body.

Its plasma cannons began losing power at an alarming rate, flickering unsteadily.

“It’s… It’s working!” Fae murmured with a hint of hope and optimism. “Sir Armstrong is winning!”

The Martial Masters watched as the cyborg entity began displaying an increasing degree of weakness while the grip of the Gatekeeper began increasing despite the plasma cannons that had drowned his head with blindingly bright plasma cannons.

And yet, the Martial Masters witnessed his tightening grip choking the life out of the cyborg entity.

It was unfathomable.

Not a single person could even begin to fathom how the Gatekeeper seemed to be able to withstand such an absurd intense attack to his head of all places and continue tightening his grip around the entity’s neck.

This was especially so after the entity had entered overdrive mode and pushed its technological systems beyond safe territory, and yet they watched as his burly fingers slowly curled deeper and deeper into the entity’s neck.

“He’s almost there!” Max smiled with amazement.

“Go, Sir Armstrong!” Mana cheered him on.

“Hehehe, that’s my teacher for you,” Nel grinned with excitement.

The Blood Goddess heaved a soft sigh. “Perhaps we will not die today.”

The entity’s cybernetic eyes began growing hazy as its vision began darkening.

Its body lost energy as weakness clouded its entire being.

Its plasma cannon began depowering, deprived power as its arms fell down in defeat, much to the delight and ecstasy of the Martial Masters even as the grip around its neck remained.

“We won!”

“Take that, strange thing!”

“Don’t mess with Kandria!”

They cheered as their attention shifted to the Gatekeeper with joy and pride as the plasma beams completely receded.

And then, they froze.

They froze with horror.

Their expressions crumpled with terror as their hearts sank with despair.

Shivers ran down their spine as their gazes converged on the Gatekeeper.

There he stood.

There he stood upon the heavens with his hands wrapped around the neck of the entity.

His head was gone.

“No…” The faintest of whisper escaped Nel.

Plumes of smoke emerged from within his open gaping neck, burned to a crisp as the tissue smouldered from the intense heat and pressure of the plasma canons.

The continuous attack had disintegrated and vaporized his entire head across the duration of the attack.

He had passed way even before the attack concluded. And yet, the sheer force of his will was so intense that not even the destruction of his head could stop him from acting to fulfill his conviction.

Not even death could halt the sheer tenacity of the Gatekeeper in his determination to destroy the foreign entity.

The Martial Masters of the Kandrian Empire watched with raw, unadulterated horror as the body of the honored hero of the Kandrian Empire finally lost the final ember of life as the grip around the entity’s neck released as his corpse went limp, collapsing from the heavens as it free-fell from the sky.

The entity’s closing eyes widened as it desperately gasped for air as blood finally reached its brain, fueling its consciousness as a intense roar of fearsome fury escaped it.

RUMBLE!!!!!!!

The world shook.

It shook violently.

The tremors from the entity’s wrath spread deep.

It spread deep.

Deep into the Esocline Federation.

Deep into the depths of its very core.

Deep into a special stasis chamber at its very epicenter.

A stasis chamber within which a woman remained suspended unconscious midair as her brown hair hovering freely in their.

RUMBLE!!!!!

The world shook as she opened her amber eyes.

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