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

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

that I have mastered 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

mastered Inner Divergence, he had become quite confident and secure in his defense. The three techniques he had purchased were all quite compatible with the VOID algorithm. Rui resumed his tactic of trying cut off Kane's evasiveness, but his approach

try running after Kane to land an attack, ever since Kane had mastered Axis Earthing, his ability to maintain his top speed despite making really sharp turns and curves had risen immensely. Meaning he could almost instantly switch

as long as Kane was focused on evading was utterly impossible. Even though Rui was

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

"That just makes you a harmless punching bag you

extremely defensive position.

mobile, it just seemed

but he shrugged, before dashing in. His 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

hit harder than the speedy light jabs that he thrown earlier throughout the match with the few low-grade of

Rui didn't bother counter-attacking, he threw a weight blow through a small chink in Rui's guard, aimed for his 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 of techniques, as well as general course of actions

BANG

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

elated for having won, giving him major

moment, he saw

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

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