The three of them eyed Rui and Kane with daggers.
A maelstrom of bloodlust boiled the very air about them as their minds sharpened.
Any other Martial Squires would have frozen in terror.
"Hmph." Rui snorted, his expression crumpled with rage as he unleashed profoundly deep bloodlust.
Deeper than ever.
It washed over them.
Their hair stood on end as chills crawled up their skin.
Their jaws dropped as they came to a shocking conclusion.
"You…" The man stammered. "Martial Senior…!"
The Senior-level aura could not be mistaken!
Rui had pushed himself to the absolute limit, having constructed the most powerful Mind Mask that he ever had in his entire life.
"You're damn right I am." He exhaled deeply, feeling his body lighten astronomically as he felt a surge of temporary energy.
WHOOSH!
Rui moved so fast that he almost blurred in the eyes of his opponents!
Yet, he wasn't fighting incompetent fools. General Dereftar's eyes narrowed as his expression grew graver.
POW!
He blocked Rui's attack.
Yet Rui simply grinned.
SPLAT!
The man felt a stab in his back out of nowhere!
Kane drove his knife as deep as he could.
"Dereftar!" One of his comrades shouted as he launched a powerful attack that moved so far that Rui wasn't able to avoid it!
BAM!
The attack was so powerful that it blasted a hole across Rui!
For a moment, Rui had forgotten that he was dealing with Martial Seniors.
Yes, their Martial Hearts were gone.
Yes, they were extraordinarily exhausted and stressed and far away from their peak performance, enough for Rui and Kane to cope the way they did against Senior Xanarn.
But they were Martial Seniors nonetheless.
They could blast past his defenses like he was made up of paper.
BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM!!!
Rui ran away as he struggled to avoid them despite Void Step!
Both their sheer speed and power were truly astonishing. Rui could feel that his body offered as much resistance to his attacks as cardboard did to bullets!
Yet, it didn't matter.
FWOOOP!
The wounds healed instantaneously.
The three Martial Seniors froze on the spot in shock!
"What…" Senior Xanarn murmured in shock.
Was he immortal?!
They grew more grave as they launched more attacks at him, pushing their already exhausted bodies to the absolute limit.
And yet, he simply ran forward, evading half, while the other half peppered holes across his body, and yet…
They disappeared.
"RARGH!" Rui yelled as he launched a supremely powerful tier-five Transverse Resonance attack while following it up with an immensely powerful Flowing Canon!
BOOM!!!
He pushed them back, overcoming all their defenses and pushing them back with his two most powerful attacks!
At that moment, they had a flatteringly terrifying impression of him.
An abysmally swift, powerful, seemingly immortal monster!