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

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

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

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

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

Rui was

attempt boxing

smiled playfully. "That just makes you a harmless

attack from an extremely defensive position.

swift and mobile, it just seemed like an incredibly bad

he shrugged, before dashing in. His confidence in his speed and evasive mobility was extremely high and he did not think Rui

POW POW POW

in, and landed heavier blows, which hit harder than the speedy light jabs that he thrown earlier

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

BANG

It seemed almost entirely clear that Rui had

for having

saw a grin

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

high for Rui to time that technique perfectly. It was a technique

avail, Rui was a much better grappler than he was.