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"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.

are arguing in the middle of a fight.') She facepalmed. ('They're the

two of you have much to learn. I'm going to beat

her with multiple Apprentice-level techniques, throwing speedy jabs. She responded by throwing a long

with greater range and power than you, is a foolish move." She

glanced back at her with

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

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

her even more. She forbade blatant escapism in her sparring sessions. Her sparring sessions were meant to push the Apprentices beyond their

even greater speed, reaching the edge of

grappling stance standing at the very edge of the ring,

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

torque, launching

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

WHOOSH

was an illusion, and her uppercut

the Mirage

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

She mused. This was the orthodox way one countered the Mirage Dive technique; to throw counters that could very easily be diverted to handle real

CLASP

technique, the sudden shifts in

force you're using is just barely enough to destabilize my center of gravity temporarily.') She sighed mentally. ('You won't be able to throw me out with just

thoughts were interrupted as her senses detected an attack moving towards her incredibly fast, in just an

that every Apprentice, including Rui, could not

with Fae! It was an incredibly high-efficiency Apprentice-level technique with extremely low flexibility; it could only be used in one way. But in that one scenario, when used, it was extremely potent, reaching the very pinnacle of what Apprentice-level techniques could

several milliseconds, he had crossed

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

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 that Kane