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.

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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.

She facepalmed. ('They're the type to die young in the field.

their debate. "Seems you the two of you have much

throwing speedy jabs. She responded by throwing a long straight kick into his gut, literally kicking the air out

is a foolish move."

her gaze towards Rui, who glanced back at her with a

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

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 mitigate the damage, all while trying to open the distance

her even more. She forbade blatant escapism 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 under extreme

with even greater speed, reaching the

a grappling stance standing at the very edge of

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 away. She intended to beat him up

generating torque, launching an

be seen on Rui's face. He rushed in for an upper takedown simultaneously. The uppercut reached Rui faster than the takedown reached Squire Kyrie, yet the moment

WHOOSH

illusion, and her

the

her missed uppercut, and swung down her elbow, aiming to crush

one countered the Mirage

CLASP

the incoming elbow hammer with all four limbs, using the Binding Lash technique, the sudden shifts in center of gravity

of gravity temporarily.') She sighed mentally. ('You won't be able

as her senses detected an attack moving towards her incredibly fast, in just an instant, it had crossed almost all of the distance and was about to

that every Apprentice, including Rui, could not

could only be used in one way. But in that

of several milliseconds, he had

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

her center of gravity destabilized towards the edge of the ring, she was remarkably