The Martial Unity

Chapter 2979 Dispatch

Many hundreds of Martial Sages were gathered at noon beneath the blindingly bright Sun directly overhead, illuminating the world around them. They were armed with healing potions, stamina potions, and rejuvenation potions of the highest caliber with the lowest consumption period.

This would ensure that the timeframe for the potion to be consumed to act upon them was minimal, allowing them to potentially consume it when they needed to. In ordinary Martial battles, they would never have the opportunity to consume a whole potion in the middle of battle, for it would leave them far too vulnerable.

But against the Beast That Roared, they could potentially be covered by their peers, who could allow them to consume potions and return rejuvenated and restored.

Additionally, each Martial Sage had a little pouch tied to their waist, one that they guarded quite well. They gathered before Rui with severe and determined dispositions. They had honed themselves physically and mentally thoroughly in the past day, the past month, and the past year.

They had brought out the very best they could possibly could have for the final battle that would could make or break the future of human civilization.

A palpable tension hung in the air. The atmosphere tingled with peril.

Ruiʼs pitch-black eyes swept all the gathered Martial Sages deeply.

The Martial Sages of the Kandrian Empire were most prominent among all of them, for they were the most numerous.

They donned a long, full-body Martial attire with a prominent golden crest of the Kandrian Empire embroidered on the chest; the symbol of the circle of life surrounded by circular olive branches.

The other groups were notably no less proud. The Martial Sages of the former Sekigahara Confederate stood tall and proud, not realizing that they represented a nation that had already been destroyed. The Emperor of Harmony had chosen not to inform them of the happening that occurred in human civilization because he knew that it would complicate things and disrupt their plans.

The Martial Sages of the Britannian Empire puffed their chest as they donned their knight-like Martial attire with a cape flowing from their armor-like attire. The Martial Sages of the Republic of Gorteau were perhaps the least motivated, yet even they couldnʼt help but grit their teeth and gather their determination.

Each group of Martial Sages was more numerous than they were in the past, despite all the losses they had suffered, simply due to the fact that the breakthrough rate to the Sage Realm had risen above the death rate of the Martial Sages in the Beast Domain. They were stronger than they had ever been.

Rui was satisfied with what he saw in them.

He was convinced that this was a force that could achieve victory.

He was convinced that this was a force worth leading.

A force worth leading into victory.

STEP

He turned around, facing the opaque and dark depths of the Beast Domain past the dense forests that awaited them. A profoundly thick fog that could impede even their senses restricted their vision into the very epicenter of the Beast Domain.

They only saw darkness in the path ahead.

As though something had cast a massive shadow at the very epicenter of the Beast Domain, depriving anybody of any insights into just what might lurk at its very core.

”Letʼs go.”

WHOOSH

In the blink of an eye, the Martial Sages proceeded as a single large group led by the Dawnbringer and the three Transcendent candidates who brimmed with special power that day. The Devil grinned with wild excitement.

He was the only Martial Sage who wanted to be doing what they were doing than anything else in the world.

The Boundless Light maintained a calm but determined expression.

The past eleven years without Amare hadnʼt been easy for her, but she steeled her will and ensured she didnʼt falter in her duty towards the Gen Temple and towards human civilization. The Reverend of Reckoning, for once, didnʼt appear as arrogant as he normally was. The grueling eleven years in the Beast Domain, watching his fellow Namgung Sages fall despite his leadership, had tempered his arrogance, bringing him back down to reality and reminding him of his failures.

His eyes sharpened with a steely will, directing a gaze towards Rui.

Rui resembled a mix of all three of them.

In the depths of his pitch-black eyes crackled a lust for battle that was second only to that of Damainʼs. He yearned to adaptively evolved to his heartʼs content against the Beast That Roared. He yearned to adaptively evolve against a greater power beyond even his capabilities.

At the same time, he shared the sadness of the Boundless Light at the absence of Amare.

Simultaneously, the burden of leading the Martial Sage Task Force was one that bore heavily on him, even if he was strong enough to bear its weight. He yearned to complete this mission and be rid of this burden.

His eyes sharpened as a single command escaped him. ”Now.”

Instantly, each Martial Sage reached for their pouch and pulled out a fruit from the Tree of Healings and consumed it voraciously in the blink of an eye. The pure power of the fruit suffused through their body, granting them an extraordinarily powerful healing.

Their confidence and certainty rose higher and higher as they felt invincible and immortal.

They surged forth.

They dove deeper and deeper into the dense forest, navigating the thick trees and the lush exotic greenery of the core of the Central Highlands of the Beast Domain. They traveled deeper and deeper into the impenetrable fog.

RUMBLE

The world shook as the most powerful Martial Artists, forces of nature bound to human form, raced towards the very epicenter past the fog and the darkness.

And then, they arrived.

WHOOSH

They emerged from the fog.

They emerged from the darkness.

They emerged from the impenetrable veil that shielded the very epicenter of the Central Highlands from the rest of the Beast Domain and from the rest of the world.

What they saw shook them.

It froze them where they stood.

They beheld a titanic cityscape that stretched as far as the as eye could see.

One fossilized on the very surface with quasi-Transcendent grade esoteric substances, preserving the ancient Lost City in unfathomably pristine conditions.

Almost as if it was frozen in time.