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.

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strike as he managed to sneak in yet another strike past Rui's guard, a strike

three defensive Apprentice-level techniques. Kane's general offense is too weak to bypass my solid defense, he'll need to use higher-efficiency techniques like what he used against

had purchased were all quite compatible with the VOID algorithm. Rui resumed his tactic of trying cut off Kane's evasiveness, but his approach to

mastered Axis Earthing, his ability to maintain his top speed despite making really sharp turns and curves had risen

was utterly impossible. Even though Rui was quite swift himself having mastered Outer Convergence and Parallel Walk and Balance

adapted his approach to be as well-suited to Kane as he could. He continued to attempt boxing Kane, but instead of going for the attack, he took

"That

swift attack from an extremely defensive

swift and mobile, it just seemed like an incredibly

and evasive mobility

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

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

BANG

him back. It seemed

for having won, giving him

saw a grin on Rui's

the moment after that, Rui's arms and legs had already latched onto Kane's

fact that Rui had mastered the technique but did not fear it because his speed was too high for Rui to time that technique perfectly. It was a technique that involved the entire body,

grappler than he was. He used Shifting Silhouette, his only defensive grappling technique to crush all of Kane's attempt at