Chapter 2319 Begin

Chapter 2319 Begin

That day was a special day. The denizens of the manifold had experienced pressure.

An immensely deep mental pressure.

It had borne down on them, spreading great concern across the entire manifold. Many had momentarily thought that the manifold had come under attack by the East Panamic Treaty Alliance.

Their fear turned to curiosity when they learned that the Void Prince had caused the anomaly that pressured the entirety of the manifold with the weight of his mind. Not even the Martial Sages who had been training in the manifold could contain their curiosity into the matter.

Yet, the request he made immediately after was even more bizarre.

"I would like a battle simultaneously against as many Masters willing to help me test out my new technique as possible."

Very few Martial Masters had the capital to make such demands. In the first place, there were very few Masters who could make that demand and not come under backlash for the disrespect. There were even fewer Masters who could make that demand and come away without making a fool of themselves for undertaking a challenge that was clearly too much for them. One was Master Sera, the Harbinger.

And the other was Master Rui, Void Prince of the Kandrian Empire.

STEP

The Masters stiffened when he arrived upon the Master-level battle arena within the manifold. He had changed.

An even greater weight seemed to accompany his every movement.

A gravitas so deep he might as well have developed his own gravitational field.

As well as a peril that prickled at their nerves.

"...Remarkable," Master Sera remarked with an expression of delight as she watched from the spectator stands. "He's grown even stronger."

"Forsooth, that is to be expected," the Gatekeeper calmly replied, standing beside her. "If my suspicions are correct, he has made an immensely powerful breakthrough to obtaining an even greater capacity of thought."

The two of them had taken time out of their schedule to witness the fruits of Rui's labor that had caused the little anomaly within the manifold.

Yet, they weren't alone.

"What do you think, Your Sagehood?" Master Sera glanced to her side. "What do you foresee?"

Matriarch Nephi snorted. "I do not exercise my power lightly. What is to come will come."

They had grown accustomed to it, yet the sheer power of his Martial Embodiment never failed to earn their admiration and envy.

Yet, it was what followed that truly shocked them.

The weight of his mind and Embodiment did not stop rising.

It only accelerated.

The glowing blood vessels that stretched across the entirety of his Martial Body grew dimmer and weaker as their physical output decreased. Their power was being redirected to his brain.

The blood vessels in his skull consequently began shining, resembling streams of boiling lava on arid land.

His eyes glowed blood red as they flared with power.

RUMBLE

An unfathomable amount of mental pressure weighed down on the other Martial Artists, almost shackling them where they stood. The infinite void resurged as a shocking force seemed to accompany the devastating Martial Embodiment. It was as though the Embodiment had gained material substance, threatening to erode their minds away with a vengeance.

It was as though his mind could impact materia with the sheer elevation of its cognition.

"What are you waiting for?" His voice had remained unchanged, yet they could have sworn that it was heavier than before.

Those words that jolted them out of their stupor.

He was right.

What were they waiting for?

Sure, he was stronger than them, but that did not mean he was invincible.

They also had a huge numeric advantage.

On top of that, Masters were naturally highly observant.

While his mind had grown more powerful, they did not fail to miss that his Body had grown weaker.

It didn't take a genius to figure out the basics of what he was doing.

"Attack!" They leaped all at once, ignorant of what was to come. -