The Martial Unity

This was one Rui's first serious spar after his training session ended. He was quite satisfied with his performance, though he still yearned to be stronger. The most recent techniques he had mastered

The mastery of Inner Divergence had bolstered his defense to the point that Kane couldn't even hurt him unless he went all out with his offense instead of his usual stinging jabs. Outer Convergence had increased his power to the point that fighting Rui head-on was a losing battle, Rui would always hurt and damage Kane faster than Kane could do take down Rui.

Seismic Mapping had gotten rid of his blind spots, he was able to track Kane's movements, maneuvering and position even when Kane escaped his peripheral vision quite accurately.

These three techniques successfully bolstered his foundation making him a solid Martial Apprentice even without the aid of the VOID algorithm.

Still, despite all that Kane was able to keep up with Rui despite all this. His speed, agility and maneuvering were always ridiculously high but after he learnt to maintain his top speed constantly, he had truly become incredibly difficult to deal with.

Furthermore, the tactic he had used to beat Kane this time was not a tactic that could be abused. If they fought a second time, Kane would not fall for the same trick, all he had to do was avoid a belligerent attack when Rui entered a closed defensive stance, and the battle would just end up being a stalemate.

In truth, Rui did possess a way to win even without the tactic he used.

The fourth technique he had learnt; Blink. His trump card.

which would probably have ended

when his opponents weren't aware of it. Using it in the open in the Apprentice sparring facility was unwise, the facility wasn't exclusively being used by the two of them, after all. There were many Martial Artists in

at all. After all, Blink

want to take the risk. So he decided to opt out of using the

had primarily focused on primarily the fundamental aspects of combat; Offense, defense, maneuvering stamina, striking, grappling etc. Now that he had truly bolstered all of these areas with twelve Apprentice-level techniques,

sports beyond striking, grappling,

for Martial

more exotic systems of techniques and esoteric techniques based on principles and mechanisms that would be no more than pure

hard and solid, he could focus on expanding his Martial Art to these more exciting fields. The idea was extremely alluring by itself, but there were strong concrete reasons

designed for the limited martial arts off Earth and not the near magical Martial

effective counter-deductive system, which could not be done with intimate understanding

the first step in this regard. When he purchased and mastered Seismic Mapping and Blink; a sensory and stealth technique, he had already taken a step in widening the versatility of his Martial Art

continue that trend. Of course, doing this wouldn't be easy. The further away he got from the fundamental fields of combat, the more useless his MMA and combat sports research background was. He might end up taking longer to master these techniques due to

had already decided to grind like crazy with the missions and undergo one last time before undergoing a final training session just before the

Rui got up. "You