The Martial Unity

"I mean, sure." Kane shrugged.

"Good, hear me out." Rui moved closer to him and began whispering his plan, he knew the Squire had sharp senses, so he took all the precautions he could, to avoid letting her in on the plan.

Meanwhile, Fae launched a flurry of powerful palm attacks, each one with incredible force. Yet Kyrie managed to parry all of them handily.

WHOOSH

Felix lunged towards her from the other side, looking for a takedown, but she simply evaded his attack with a summersault, cleanly dodging the shooting maneuver. This resulted in Fae's and Felix's attacks heading towards each other.

"Not this time!" Fae narrowly avoided Felix's charge while diverting her attack away from Felix.

"Looks like the same trick won't work too many times, eh?" Kyrie noted blankly. Yet four Apprentices attempted to dogpile her from four sides, while three more were circling around ready to pounce the moment they failed.

All eleven of them couldn't attack her simultaneously. It was almost physically impossible, there was limited space around a person through which they could be attacked. Even if it were physically possible, it could only be achieved through practiced and rehearsed well-timed and well-placed attacks. Such a thing was, of course, impossible in this sparring session, which was why no more than five people ever attacked Squire Kyrie.

BOOM

Kyrie blew away the last of her attackers with blitz kick, dusting her attire as the Apprentices recuperated.

Suddenly a commotion of the other side of the ring grabbed her attention.

"NO NO NO! That's a stupid plan!" Kane shouted at Rui. "That's not gonna work!"

"HUH?" Rui snarled. "You think you can do better?!"

The two of them started bickering loudly, uncaring for their opponent, who simply gazed at them blankly before sighing.

in the middle of a fight.') She facepalmed. ('They're the type to

their debate. "Seems you the two of you have much to learn. I'm going

with multiple Apprentice-level techniques, throwing speedy jabs. She responded by throwing a long straight kick into his gut, literally kicking

is a foolish

her gaze towards Rui, who glanced back at

you're afraid of a sparring session, you're not cut out to be a

over to Rui at incredibly high speeds, throwing a barrage of punches and kicks. Rui simply tucked his tail between his legs and ran away from her as fast as he could, nearing the edge of the ring, all while still facing her, using Elastic Shift and Acute Edge to

in her sparring sessions. Her sparring sessions were meant to push the Apprentices beyond their limits, to have them get used to fighting losing battles

with even greater speed, reaching the edge of the

immediately turned around with a grappling stance standing at

wants to use my own momentum to throw me over the ring.') She mused. It wasn't an original idea, but at the very least it was better than running

her core, generating torque, launching an uppercut to Rui's solar

He rushed in for an upper takedown simultaneously. The uppercut reached Rui faster than the takedown reached Squire Kyrie,

WHOOSH

was an illusion, and her

was the Mirage Dive

swung down her

all the foundational Apprentice-level techniques.') She mused. This was the orthodox way one countered the Mirage Dive technique; to throw counters that could very easily be

CLASP

Lash technique, the sudden shifts in center of gravity was dangerous at the edge of the ring. But she

enough to destabilize my center of gravity temporarily.') She sighed mentally. ('You won't

in just an instant, it had crossed almost all of

every Apprentice, including Rui, could not

Apprentice-level technique with extremely low flexibility; it could only be used in one way. But in

span of several milliseconds,

of a Martial Squire. But she had limited herself to peak Apprentice-level speed and power. Furthermore, Rui had brought her to the very edge of the ring, and had destabilized her center of gravity with the Binding Lash technique, Kane had aimed to strike her at that very moment. Under these extenuating circumstances, she could

back into the ring, but with her center of gravity destabilized towards the edge of the ring, she was remarkably off-balance. It was almost an incredible coincidence