The Martial Unity

Chapter 3457: Survival of the Fittest

Rui swore to go back home and learn Master Minn’s Martial Art once she converted it into learnable techniques and principles. For any Martial Artist to pass on their martial art to others, they needed to learn how to make it mass viable. It was why Rui’s VOID algorithm was still something that was limited only to him and Ieyasu, who copied it.

But chaotic adaptive evolution was one of the things that he had vowed to learn, only for it to enter an endless to-do list that Rui had.

He put his frustrations aside as he brought his mind back to the reality before him. He did not admittedly know how to counter the entropy that he and Amare left behind. What was especially irksome was the fact that he needed to protect his identity from those who were tailing him, which greatly limited his options.

”We can’t just annihilate them,” Rui groaned as he ran through the darkness of the forest at night. ”It will trigger too many alarm bells.”

The units that were chasing them were quite powerful, Rui could tell. That was why he knew that he couldn’t simply eviscerate them, for people ten times more powerful would be sent in turn, and it would draw attention from across the entire continent.

”At the same time, we can’t just ignore them,” Amare murmured. ”They’ll attack us, and if we lead them to the Gajanan Clan, it will draw too much attention and even bring the Dragon Emperor potentially.”

It was too soon for a confrontation between Rui and Lord Shenlong. He needed to speak with Lord Vakratunda to coordinate their actions and ensure that they weren’t both crushed by the Dragon Emperor and his massive War Coalition.

His senses pricked as he detected them closing in on them. His expression grew tense as he began pondering his other options. The first option that came to mind was using hypnosis.

The people of the true world were weak to hypnosis, he knew that. He bet that he could create a very powerful hypnotic technique that wasn’t even that difficult, but it was enough to fool them in the direction that they took off in.

”That won’t work,” he realized with a frustrated expression. ”They are not tracking us directly. They’re following data from another source that is tracking us.”

Thus, even if he cast a hypnosis on their senses, they would know to keep following him with their tracking measures. Using hypnosis rashly would, in fact, alert them to the threat level of what they were dealing with, likely causing even more troops to be deployed to hunt them alive.

In order to deal with this, he would need to understand exactly what was tracking them. He knew the mechanism by which he was being tracked, which gave him a method by which he could deduce exactly what was piercing his stealth technique.

’Could it be the flora of this forest?’

He found it unlikely.

With their nature manipulation, they could sense that the trees in Kiriket were not only much more primitive, but they also had a backdoor that he had gotten from Mother Vyia, regarding how to use them to their advantage.

There was no chance that it was flora, especially when considering that he was dealing with the Beast Path.

’I could easily find out with my Authority of Alpha, but using that would be like announcing my identity to the world.’

On top of that, most fauna on the continent was under the influence of the Dragon Emperor, so there was a good chance that it would be of very little gain.

RUMBLE...

The dark forests shook as a violent gust of wind blew past the jogging Amare and Rui as they navigated the Southeast forest of Kiriket Continent. The sound of buzzing wings drew their attention as they turned to find massive insects with wings that stretched almost a dozen meters in length, with therianthrope insect-people riding their backs.

Massive sonic cones formed around the insect that cleaved through the air like a butcher’s blade, causing much turbulence for the riders of the giant flies.

”Flies...” Rui murmured as he returned his attention to the forest around him, searching frantically.

He spotted many of them.

They seemed to mind their own business in a sea of insects, but Rui sharpened his eyes as he turned, stopping for just a brief moment.

”Rui...!” Amare’s eyes widened as he saw him pause while they were being chased. ”What are you doing?!”

Within milliseconds, they were bound to be attacked by their pursuers.

Yet, Rui reached out for a single fly with his stealth dialed up to the maximum.

BZZZT...!

The fly flew away from his touch.

Amare’s eyes widened at the sight. ”Incredible...! To think that such a small creature could overcome you stealth.”

The moment delay has been enough for the troops of the Dthrivoraustrat Clan to catch up to their location.

BZZZZT!!!

The powerful flapping of their chitin wings was powerful enough to create an extremely powerful and forceful wind blast that damaged both the flora and the fauna in the area.

Unlike the elves, they simply didn’t care to preserve.

Everything that died deserved to die, in their eyes.

”Ileisia Mirwilin es mileo Morli!”

Rui didn’t speak the language of this particular clan of therianthrope, but his mind sense allowed him to sense the gist of what they were saying.

Attack.

Massive gusts of wind emerged from the insectile wings as Rui leaped for Amare, activating Worm Step.

WHOOSH!

In the blink of an eye, they disappeared just a millisecond before powerfully destructive winds bombarded their location.

BOOOOOM!!!

The powerful attack razed the ground, causing immense land and bedrock to erupt from the ground as the troops chose to act with the ’shoot first, ask questions later’ mindset.

RUMBLE!

The world shook as the powerful attacks across the entire forests caused many lifeforms to perish in the blink of an eye.

Only the fittest survived.