The Martial Unity

Chapter 2225  Triggering Words

Master Satva froze in horror as he struggled to parse what had just unfolded before him. Everything had been going according to plan just seconds ago.

He was on the verge of getting her inside his tomb of earth.

Yet, suddenly, he found himself looking at his mother in the reflection of the broken mirror before it cracked when he reached for it.

Only to find to return himself back in reality.

A reality where the Harbinger's hand impaled his body.

DRIP DRIP…

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" He roared as earth and lava surged to swallow her up.

WHOOSH!

"Ahahaha~" Master Sera soared through the air as she laughed with derision, evading his attacks. "To think the mighty Apostle of Gaia was just a little mommy's boy hiding in the closet who wants his dear mama boohoo. Ahahaha!"

Unadulterated fury erupted in the eyes of Master Satva.

His hands quaked with rage as he even forgot to focus on healing his wound. "You dare…"

"Oh, wait," Master Sera tapped her chin, squinting her eyes as she fell into deep thought. "Don't tell me that the reason that you constantly yap about 'Gaia this' and 'Gaia that' is because…you're secretly projecting your mommy insecurities on Gaia, the planet, through your Martial Art?"

He froze as grave horror emerged on his expression.

"…Pfft!" She burst out laughing. "HAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHA!!"

Master Satva shivered as his bloodlusted fury boiled with a vengeance.

Yet, the Harbinger was enjoying herself too much. "Hey, everybody, listen up, the Apostle of Gaia wants Gaia to be his mommy!"

Her words reached the Masters in the surrounding region, many of whom gazed at Master Satva with a strange expression.

That was enough.

At that moment, Master Satva snapped.

"I'LL KILL YOU!!!" He bellowed as his eyes grew red with rage. "I WILL KILL YOU!!!"

RUMBLE!!!

All of heaven and earth shivered under the rage of the Apostle of Gaia as he unleashed the total might that his body harbored.

"Huhuhu~" Master Sera weaved around the countless incoming attacks. "Still can't catch me~!"

She grinned vindictively as she dodged and evaded every single attack that the Apostle of Gaia threw in her direction.

Yet, this only enraged the man even more.

Under any other circumstances, he would have been able to calm down and retain his rationality.

Yet, this time, he wasn't able to.

He could hear the Kandrian and even the Sekigaharan Martial Masters laughing at him with cruelty, laughing at his deepest emotional vulnerabilities that had existed in the core of who he was and the core of his Martial Drive and Art.

In reality, they weren't laughing at all.

Why would they?

They were in the middle of a war.

They were too busy fighting to be laughing at him.

Yet, he could hear them laughing at him nonetheless, heightening his already high emotional distress.

A glint of malice and cruelty flashed in her eyes.

Her Martial Embodiment was different from that of any other Martial Embodiment in that she actively used it as a weapon in battle. It was not usually flashy outside of its initial form of a broken mirror, in that it shifted to create circumstances that were designed to destabilize her victim's emotions as much as possible

All it did was add a little laughter from the Martial Masters in his ears and senses. It didn't alter reality in any other way.

That made it so hard to catch.

The more a hypnotic illusion matched with and overlapped with reality, the harder it was to notice. On top of that, how much of his anger had destabilized him emotionally made it even harder to notice that she was playing into him.

That wasn't all; unbeknownst to most people, most of her Martial Art was not comprised of combat techniques.

She only had a handful of potent techniques for offense, defense, and speed. The rest of her Martial Art was dedicated to Body techniques that carefully brewed and released potent pheromones that increased a variety of psychological and sociological behavioral parameters that broadly correlated with increased emotional instability.

In battle, emotional instability was a liability, especially in the Upper Realms, where it could be an absolute blunder.

Just as it was panning out to be in this battle, dodging his attacks had been far easier than it had ever been despite the fact that he was exerting far more than ever before. She even activated systems of thought that functioned as large language models that allowed her to figure out exactly what to say to deepen his emotional instability.

"Imagine still being in the Master Realm after five hundred years."

Her voice oozed derision.

Master Satva gritted his teeth as he clenched his fists. "I WILL KILL YOU, LITTLE WENCH!

Her grin widened. "If I was still in the Master Realm after five hundred years, I'd fucking kill myself." n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"AARGGHRAGHGHR!!!"

RUMBLE!!!

The earth erupted in cataclysmic power.

Yet—

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

She cleanly evaded every single one he dished out.

Because he had stopped using his systems in the irrational state of mind, he couldn't take the right approach to corner her like he almost had before.

"Your mom would probably cringe if she saw you now," Master Sera grinned. "Imagine being such a fucking loser that you still cling to her in your mind after half a fucking millennium. She's probably turning her grave."

She paused. "But her grave is in Gaia, so I guess your mother is turning inside your mother? Hahaha!"

RUMBLE!!!

Master Satva was too angry to even speak. Instead, he simply emptied his energy reserves, ravaging the world with his immense raw power, threatening the other Martial Masters even after they had moved a good distance away.

Meanwhile, Master Sera continued triggering with just the right type of rhetoric, allowing her to continuously emotionally abuse him to the point that he couldn't even think anymore. Yet, even as she enjoyed tearing apart her opponents, she didn't forget the objective of this battle.

Victory.

None of all of this mattered if she didn't win in the end.

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