The Unknown

As jubilant as Rui grew for having left the Kandrian Empire for the first time in many years, he did ground his personal excitement with the knowledge that this was not going to be an easy journey.

If there was one weakness that Martial Artists had, it was that their power was not their natural state.  This power not only had a strict time limit but also had other harsh consequences for using it.

The Martial Heart and Martial Mind were not endless resources.

They were very much finite.

If he ended up consuming all of them, he would only be as powerful as a Senior-level monster. That left him extremely vulnerable. He needed to source and ration his Realms of power and treat them judiciously now that he was outside the Kandrian Empire.

This was not easy.