The Martial Unity

2899  Faring Sages

While Kane surged across the entire battlefield at extraordinarily high speeds, struggling to engage in defense or offense, the other Martial Sages had greater luck than him. Sage Zentra's body altered as he deployed his Martial Soul, his body control techniques, and his systems of thought to create a body that would allow him to not just resist the heat but to absorb it and fuel his own attacks. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!!!

Inferno upon inferno washed across his body, singeing his grey Martial attire woven from quasi-Transcendent substances. They washed over his well-groomed hair, beard, and mustache.

And yet, while others suffered under the heat, he welcomed it, consuming it with his altered physicality, allowing him to use it to fuel his own power. Mild as the energy boost was due to how little of it he was directly exposed to, it was still worth ingesting, if for no other reason but because it helped him defend himself effortlessly.

Upon entry to the Sage Realm, his bodily control had risen to levels previously unseen. He had already been one of the very most powerful Martial Masters when it came to the mastery of body.

It was as though he had been born for the Sage Realm. He surged forth steadily, his body continuously adapting to the extraordinary rigors of the serpent's visceral heat while hardening his bones, altering his bone structure, and preparing bioweapons within his body to attack the serpents with.

Upon entry to the Sage Realm, he discovered a more powerful way to weaponize his body against others and completely bypass their physical defenses by deploying bacterial agents of his own making into their bodies, causing rapid disease to spread through his opponents. He would slowly weaken the serpents throughout the entire battle, allowing the Martial Sages to fall them sooner.

Of course, the closer he drew to the serpents, the less he was protected by Rui's domain and the more intense the heat was, slowing done his progress.

While he chose the long game, there were those who chose a more direct and simple method of inflicting wounds upon their opponent.