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

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

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

defense. The three techniques he had purchased were all quite compatible with the

attack, ever since Kane had mastered Axis Earthing, his ability to maintain his top speed despite making

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

adapted his approach to be as well-suited to Kane as he could. He continued to attempt boxing Kane, but

attacking me?" He smiled playfully. "That just makes

false, it was difficult to launch a swift attack from an extremely defensive position. On open offensive stance was launched attacks quicker than super defensive

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

dashing in. His confidence in his speed and evasive

POW POW POW

than the speedy light jabs that he thrown earlier throughout the match with the few low-grade of the Apprentice-level offensive

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

BANG

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

felt elated for having

he saw

had already latched onto Kane's arm, using the

to use 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

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