The Martial Unity

A little over four months passed by quickly. Time was often a blur to those who had immersed themselves in training. Especially to someone like Rui, who truly lost track of day and night thanks to his relentless training and immersion. Furthermore, his tolerance of potions made it even more difficult to keep track since he didn't have daily sleep cycles.

Rui launched a tremendous attack at Kane. The sheer force the attack contained blasted the air in its path apart, causing abrupt gusts of wind. The Outer Convergence technique once mastered had fundamentally upgraded his offensive force to a higher level.

WHOOSH

Kane evaded the attack, swerving to Rui's open side almost instantaneously.

POW

He managed a get in a solid jab before Rui could guard, and leapt back unsatisfied. The jab had done nothing, it hadn't even fazed Rui.

"Tsk." Kane tutted.

Rui took the initiative to charge in, chasing after Kane, trying to cut off as much room for escape as he could. One disadvantage that evasive maneuverer fighters had was that they needed space, they were crippled significantly if they were boxed in a small space.

Still, this was not an easy strategy against someone like Kane, who had enough speed and mobility to bypass Rui's attempts to block him.

WHOOSH

another strike past Rui's guard, a

three defensive Apprentice-level techniques. Kane's general offense is too weak to

secure in his defense. The three techniques he had purchased were all quite compatible with the VOID algorithm. Rui resumed his tactic of trying

his ability to maintain his top speed despite making really sharp turns and curves had risen immensely. Meaning he could almost instantly switch directions extremely acutely without needing to slow down at

hit him was impossible as long as Kane was focused on evading was utterly impossible. Even though Rui was quite swift himself having mastered Outer Convergence and

as he could. He continued to attempt boxing Kane, but instead of

"That just makes

an extremely

who was extremely swift and mobile, it just seemed like an

confidence in his speed and evasive mobility was extremely high and he did not think Rui would be able to out-speed him, especially from that

POW POW POW

in, and landed heavier blows, which hit harder than the speedy light jabs that he thrown earlier throughout the match with the few low-grade

neck, trying to finish Rui off with a single strike, unlike his normal fighting style. The reason he did this was because he knew Rui got stronger as the fight went on, he would alter his placement, timing and application

BANG

cleanly landed the strike onto Rui's neck, slamming him back. It seemed almost entirely clear that Rui had

he felt elated for having won,

he saw a grin on Rui's

had already latched onto Kane's

too high for Rui to time that technique perfectly. It was a technique that involved the entire body, meaning

me?') Kane wondered as he struggled to get out of the lock. But it was of no avail, Rui was a much better grappler than he was. He used Shifting Silhouette, his only defensive grappling technique to crush all