Chapter 1932 Higher Aspirations

Chapter 1932 Higher Aspirations

Because the difficulty of surviving, sustaining, and progressing in the Beast Domain only grew higher the deeper they went, their journey stalled significantly. Of course, while it got harder, it naturally made them stronger.

Rui forgot what protection felt like during this time.

He forgot what safety felt like during this perilous voyage through the Beast Domain.

The fourteen months he had spent under constant protection from Martial Masters might as well as have happened ages ago. While he previously felt like he was stalling and growing rusty due to the lack of danger that served as a crucible to forge Martial Artists, now, he felt like he was perhaps in too much danger.

It shook any rust he thought he had accumulated off him.

Now, he had very naturally learned to grow an eye at the back of his head. A state of subconscious alertness in every inch of his environment was absolutely necessary and naturally came.

That was how omnipresent the perils of the Beast Domain were.

In the Human Domain, Rui had a lot of confidence in his sensory prowess. If his senses didn't detect any threats, then he could have a high certainty that there weren't any threats. While Martial Artists of higher Realms with decent stealth could still hide from him, such a circumstance was extremely unlikely.

The Beast Domain was different.

Camouflage, stealth, deception... these had all been dialed to eleven in the Beast Domain. Rui had lost count of the number of times that his senses failed to detect threats until the very last moment, almost getting him and Kane killed.

It forged him to be a stronger Martial Artist in more than one way.

THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM!

Rui fired off a powerful tier-five Transverse Resonance attack, blasting five griffons in the face.

"RAAAWWWWWWWRRR!" The powerful beasts roared in pain, failing to avoid them as the Pathfinder technique refused to let them escape.

They swiftly surged, encircling Rui, converging on him.

Yet, he didn't so much as budge. Instead, his muscles enlarged, and his body swelled with enormous power.

A Master-level creature.

Just looking at it sent shivers down their spine.

It slumbered, unperturbed by its surroundings.

A single attack from the creature could lay waste to a region spanning more than a hundred kilometers in diameter.

Rui had been quite nervous about awakening it by their battle, but thankfully, Martial Seniors were too weak to bother it, it appeared.

"That's a Master-level creature?" Kane asked for the umpteenth time. "You're telling me the Kandrian Empire has a hundred fifty of those?!"

"We are considered a powerhouse for a reason." Rui grew grave. "If it wakes up, just the act of waking up may wipe out all life in the vicinity."

He felt powerless in the face of such a being. Despite the fact that they were many kilometers away from it, it radiated passive amounts of pressure that rattled him to his very bones.

He realized how much control and discipline Martial Masters had over their aura. They didn't let it flood an entire nation and traumatize all the citizens unless they did it on purpose. They didn't let their power leak unless on purpose. On top of that, they didn't possess much more raw power than Rui did, generally. However, their minds and cognition had risen to such a level that they could do with the Martial Heart as Martial Apprentices did with normal human power.

Compared to them, Martial Seniors like Rui were cavemen using rifles as a club.

The very thought evoked deep dissatisfaction within the depths of Rui's heart. A deep yearning for that power boiled within the depths of his heart.

"Hey." Kane's voice snapped him back to reality.

"Hm?"

"We just crossed the final region of the North-West region of the Beast Domain," Kane remarked. "We're here."

Rui turned to overlook the view that spread far past the eye could see.

"The northern region of the Beast Domain," Rui remarked, narrowing his eyes.

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