After fighting for many hours straight, conserving their Hearts and Minds as much as possible, Rui and Ieyasu too reached the end of their stamina. If there was one weakness that Martial Artists had, it was that their power was not their normal output but the result of squeezing every ounce of their potential.
It was not something that could be maintained extensively even if they minimized their output to the absolute minimum or killed as many as possible to weaken the tide.
Regardless, after hours of adaptively evolving heaven and earth to antithetically oppress the many beasts and monster, both of them had finally reached their limit.
Thankfully, the next shift had finally arrived.
"Fall back!" the leader of the pre-existing shift instructed tiredly.
The two shifts switched as the exhausted Martial Masters returned back home in safety.
STEP