The number that he had been given in the evaluation facility corresponded with the force evaluation of his technique.
“You may purchase at most a grade-six Squire-level slot,” The staff member informed him. “That corresponds to a section of the ocean roughly fifteen meters wide. Once you begin training you are responsible for ensuring the section of the ocean that you’re tasked with keeping at bay does not cross a certain boundary, you will be held liable, and you will be required to pay a fee for every time this occurs. Please sign this statement if you agree to the terms and conditions.”
Rui nodded as he quickly signed before receiving a token indicating the grade number.
“Head to the Squire-level section of the Trench,” She instructed him. “The section manager and support staff will help you.”
It wasn’t long before he reached where he was supposed to be.
Great gusts of wind came his way, the roaring ocean atop that made for a jarringly chaotic environment. It was quite novel and exciting, but it was also strangely unnerving given that there were stakes at hand. The ocean levels receding would be quite disastrous for all coastal nations.𝑜𝔳xt.𝗇t
It wasn’t long before he ran into crews of normal humans wearing full-body armour. Rui could immediately sense that the armor that they were wearing was comprised of Apprentice-level esoteric alloys. Given that they were normal humans, they were putting a lot of trust in the Martial Artists holding back the ocean. Rui knew that they probably had high salaries.
“Please come this way sir,” One of the staff members guided him once he showed him his slot tokens.
He guided Rui until they were just a hundred meters away from a Martial Squire. “You’re to replace him, sir!”
The man felt the need to shout due to how loud the waves were, but Rui could hear him just fine.
Rui looked around as he saw an endless line of Martial Squires farther beyond the eye could see, farther beyond even what his eye could see.
“Now!”
The Martial Squire that Rui was to replace moved back after striking a section of the wave, giving Rui enough time to dash in and take his place.
He used Gale Force Breathing and Outer Convergence together as he dashed forward leaving behind powerful sonic booms in his wake.
He gathered enough momentum with his dash as he readied his palm. Mentally, he had already prepared to execute the Forestep Technique with the Mighty Roar Flash Blast Technique.
However, he had a feeling he wouldn’t fail.
STEP
He had reached.
RUMBLE!
The ocean wave was right before him. It had rushed forward with tremendous speed due to the sheer pressure the ocean was propelling the water forward.
Yet Rui drove his vibrating palm forward.
SPLASH!
He vibrated his palm the maximum as he gently pushed forward and upwards to target the upper segments of the wave, pushing harder and harder. Like a spring.
BOOM!
The impact permeated through the water as the wave blew back a dozen meters behind!
Rui’s eyes lit up with ecstasy as he reveled in his success.
(‘That has to be record time for creating a new technique!’)
It wasn’t perfect however, he could feel that a decent chunk of his power was not being permeated correctly. All he knew was that he had plenty of room for improvement.
(‘I’ll iron out all the chinks in my time here!’) Rui grinned.
He initially planned on ironing out all his offensive techniques, but he ultimately decided not to. He had more to gain by using this opportunity to iron out the technique that he had the least amount of refining with.
The Martial Squires practicing their techniques on the waves were quite careful, they did not want to get in each other’s way and get hurt, but at the same time, they couldn’t be too distant from each other, otherwise, that would leave a gap between their technique causing water to rush through the gaps.
His technique grew more refined in real time as he figured out the way in which he ought to permeate the impact across the entirety of the segments of the wave that he was assigned to. It was quite difficult to make sure that caught every part of the segment, he let slip a few giant blobs of water, but fortunately, that wasn’t an issue at all, thus he never got reprimanded for it. He realized the merit of such a training method.
It was essentially a giant training facility that could even accommodate Martial Artists of higher Realms. Rui couldn’t even imagine how much the whole thing would have cost, it could easily encompass the Martial Artists of multiple nations. He wasn’t entirely sure if even the gigantic revenue he made from the Shionel Dungeon would be able to fund the creation of the training facility that this trench served as a whole.
It was true that Sage Sia had caused an untold amount of suffering when she created the Umiana Trench, but it was also true that countless Martial Artists had benefited from it to this very day.
BOOM!!
He drove back the ocean wave nearly thirty meters backward.
The feat was so impressive that the Martial Artists in the vicinity couldn’t help but turn their heads in his direction.
The force that Rui had demonstrated had exceeded all of their techniques combined. He was accomplishing what only grade-nine or grade-ten Martial Squires did.
Rui knew, however, that it was a matter of efficiency, his technique allowed for a highly efficient transfer of power, allowing for extraordinary results with the same amount of power that many other Martial Artists were accomplishing.
He spend quite some time blasting away at the ocean until it was finally time for him to switch with the next Martial Squire.
“Huff…” He heaved a heavy sigh as he wiped some sweat off his forehead.
“Is that the new technique?” Kane asked, waiting for him. “Because I’ve never seen that.