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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.

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.

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

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

She responded by throwing a long straight kick into

power than you, is a

glanced back at

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

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

sessions. Her sparring sessions were meant to push the Apprentices beyond their limits, to have them get used to fighting losing battles under extreme pressure and exhaustion, yet

chased him with even greater speed,

stance

least it was better than running away. She intended to beat him up a bit before throwing him back in the center of the

launching an uppercut to

Rui's face. He rushed in for an upper takedown simultaneously. The uppercut reached Rui faster

WHOOSH

an illusion, and her uppercut

was the

for the lower takedown, yet just as he began the shoot, Kyrie halted her missed uppercut, and swung down her elbow, aiming to crush the lower takedown. The timing was impeccable, she launched the elbow almost as if she knew that the upper takedown would be

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

CLASP

Lash technique, the sudden shifts in center of gravity was dangerous at the

just barely enough to destabilize my center of gravity temporarily.') She sighed mentally.

fast, in just an instant, it had crossed almost all of

moving so fast that every Apprentice, including Rui,

had used in his fight 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

span of several milliseconds, he had crossed

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 only do so much while holding back almost all of

edge of the ring, she was remarkably off-balance. It was almost an incredible coincidence that Kane had chose to strike her at the