The Martial Unity

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

The sheer scale of the explosion that erupted was greater than anything Rui had expected from the planet. It was so powerful, in fact, that even Rui had to exert himself to protect Gaia from it while also divided with restraining the gravitational influence of the two creatures, and keeping the wormhole open.

RUMBLE!!!!!

Garg quaked as he did his absolute best, struggling to defend against the power of Jormungandr. The planet began spewing lava; it began unleashing what little esoteric prowess it had.

The attacks certainly struck and even damaged the exterior of Jomungandr, threatening to melt its scales.

And the serpent head on, pressing harder and harder. It was not a python, which was why its ability to squeeze was limited by the standards of a snake of its proportions. But that didn’t matter, the serpent went all out with everything that it had at its disposal, ensuring that it caused as much structural damage to Garg as it possibly could.

Meanwhile, a large amount of debris began raining on the conscious planet and the serpent, causing both to be bombarded by a powerful barrage of meteorites.

And yet, Garg still suffered greater damage. Even though the world serpent wasn’t particularly good at squeezing using its body, it didn’t have the experience. It simply leveraged every muscle in its body to coil and crush the planet underneath its grip.

And it was working.

CRACK CRACK CRACK!

The mantle of the conscious planet began cracking as a gush of fresh lava emerged from deep within the planet’s inner mantle and core, causing it to flood the surface, melting the space-rock debris that served as an exterior armor.

It was then that Rui saw the first sign of true panic from the gargantian. As if it had truly come to reckon with the fact that this serpent was going to crush it where it was.

RUMBLE!!!!!

The planet began quaking tremendously, unleashing an onslaught of laser beams that erupted from the depths of the core. While Rui used his Martialverse to protect Gaia from the destruction, he watched as Jormungandr’s scales managed to withstand the worst of what the gargantian threw in its direction. It protected the serpent, even if it began growing visibly damaged in the battle with the gargantian.

The onslaught from the conscious planet was so great that it shone as brightly as a supernova, illuminating the parts of the night sky of Gaia that would have otherwise been entirely dark, causing a mass panic to erupt upon Gaia.

And yet, the serpent didn’t so much as even budge. It held on, crushing the planet with a tremendous amount of compressive force, causing cracks to emerge across the surface of the planet and across its entire body.

So much so that even the shape of the molten planet had begun to change under the tremendous concussive force.

That was when the gargantian must have realized it.

That was when it must have realized that it was not getting out alive.

It had shed most of its esoteric matter, leaving it unprepared for a creature as powerful as the world serpent, and even if it was somehow able to defeat the serpent, it would have to deal with the extraordinary being that intervened to protect Gaia.

It didn’t stand a chance against both of them. What was the point of struggling then?

With that thought, the gargantian abandon their resistance against the serpent’s crushing grip. It instead focused all of its efforts on ensuring that it fulfilled its original goal.

To reproduce.

It shifted its attention towards Gaia, the magnificent esoteric planet it had stumbled upon in this remote part of the Milky Way Galaxy. It found it regrettable that the Gargantian Hive hadn’t discovered such an extraordinary planet, for whatever reason. Most likely because they simply didn’t direct much attention to such a remote part of the most remote galactic star strand.

It would correct this mistake by committing its final act of reproduction. RUMBLE!!!!! Its body shook more violently than ever, even as the world serpent began to break apart the outer mantle comprising the bulk of its body. The part of its section facing Gaia began to glow brightly before a tremendous surge of matter erupted from it, shooting towards Gaia.

It was a glob of lava that was bright, about as large as a small moon, shooting towards Gaia at very high speed. Just a moment after, the world serpent crushed the planet into pieces, completely destroying the gargantian.

RUMBLE!!!!!

The pieces of the creature spread out across outer space in a violent explosion as magma and lava spewed outwards. Just like that, the world serpent claimed victory over the gargantian specimen. It was not easy to say which one of them would have won if the gargantian had been at its peak power, but ultimately, the circumstances had favored Jormungandr.

And yet, Rui hadn’t paid so much as even a hint of regard towards the death of the gargantian.

His attention was fixed on one and only one thing.

The seed of the gargantian.

It shot towards Gaia at relativistic speeds.

WHOOSH

Rui teleported before it, intercepting it with a single palm that cupped the very reality of the lava globule, ensuring that he didn’t contaminate the sample. His eyes lit up as his Transcendent Gaze bore deep into the blob of lava.

What he found at its very epicenter was fascinating.

“Primordial seed.”

He could recognize the substance from a light-year away. The wave function resembled an Einstein-Bose Condensate. It’s formless self that, in many ways, embodied the spirit of his Martial Art.

But that wasn’t all.

When he studied the globule in the information dimension, he spotted something truly unfathomable.

He spotted an equation.

One whose complexity exceeded anything he had ever seen in his entire life.

It wasn’t carved into the lava, nor was it contained in some kind of engraving or electronic file, and it wasn’t even the biochemical information that he had gotten from Anthea.

No.

It was carved into the information of the lava globule in the information dimension itself.