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

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 Fae.')

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 to combat had

to maintain his top speed despite making really sharp turns and

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

well-suited to Kane as he could. He continued to attempt boxing Kane, but instead of going for the attack, he took an extremely defensive posture with very few openings

smiled playfully. "That just makes

was difficult to launch a swift attack from an extremely defensive position. On open offensive stance was launched attacks

extremely swift and mobile,

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

POW POW POW

jabs that he

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 and tactics throughout the

BANG

strike onto Rui's neck, slamming him back. It seemed almost

elated for having won,

he saw a

and legs had already latched onto Kane's arm, using

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

get out of the lock. But it was of no avail, Rui was a much better grappler than he was. He