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 as he managed to sneak in yet another strike past Rui's guard, a strike that, once again, didn't do

god for the fact 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

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

Earthing, 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

though Rui was quite swift himself having mastered Outer

as he could. He continued to attempt boxing Kane,

"That just

launch a swift attack from an extremely

swift and mobile, it

in. His confidence in his speed and evasive mobility

POW POW POW

than the speedy light jabs that he thrown earlier

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

BANG

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

elated for having won, giving him

moment, he saw a grin on

that, Rui's arms and legs had already latched onto

that technique against him successfully. He was long aware of the 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, meaning that it was slow. Against extremely fast opponents like Kane, it was practically impossible to use unless one had timed the execution

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