The Martial Unity

Rui wasn't sure, yet he didn't bother asking for clarification, it had already been made quite clear to him that nobody who knew the truth would reveal it so easily. Fae and Kane had both not been told about the breakthrough to Martial Squire, and Squire Dylon himself had refused Rui the truth, being purposefully vague and unspecific.

Still, Rui wasn't too bothered by this, he knew he would learn about the truth and even experience it himself as long as he traversed down his own Martial Path.

Once the event ended, Rui remained in the facility, looking for others to spar against.

Although he had tentatively mastered each individual technique alone, he hadn't fully gotten used to using all of them in combat. He'd decided he wanted to get more experience with them, it was better to refine it in the same environment of the Academy where he could afford to make mistakes than do so in the middle of a dangerous mission and lose his life as a result.

Especially so since the Academy had upgraded his Martial Apprentice grade from grade three to grade five. Meaning, from now on he could routinely take on missions that posed some degree of a threat, albeit not much, all by himself.

He would have only himself to rely upon.

The first course of action he wanted to do was test himself against different Types of Martial Artists, with different specialties. This gave him a wider dataset for him to evaluate how well he used his newly mastered techniques

He had already tested himself against an evasive maneuverer of Kane, and had been reasonably satisfied with his performance. Now he just needed to fight as many different types as he could. He could fight Fae for an offensive striker, Dalen for a defense-oriented Martial Art, Milliana for a stamina-oriented Martial Art. Felix for a grappling-oriented Martial Art.

He didn't particularly have anyone else he was acquainted with.

He shrugged, approaching other Martial Apprentices who had also stayed behind looking for anyone who was interested in a spar.

The sparing match he had gotten into now was just that.

your stances."

Rui exhaled as he put a foot forward, while extending his left arm open-palmed towards his opponent, while tucking his right fist at his ribs. It was a fairly neutral stance that didn't put too much weight on offense, defense

to the absolute limit, as though she was trying to crush something in between her forearm and bicep, while raising her elbows,

suggested to Rui that her Martial Art was a super close range Martial Art centered around elbows.

supervisor

wouldn't be much of a super-close-range fighter

peacefully, he immediately dashed backwards, maintaining the distance between

was that she was actually faster than he was, which meant she had invested a

remarkably well.') Rui thought. He

with greater range who could attack her from outside her range while she

any moron could come up with this strategy as long as they thought hard enough. Rui was relatively certain that she had encountered this strategy

of raw techniques, he was probably inferior to her in super-close-range combat. Still, he didn't feel any threat or fear, his sense of security had risen

she reached three meters away, Rui calmly stopped running away and instead ran

look of surprise flashed across her face, as this was the last

BOOM

let loose a huge gust of wind and that drew the attention of everybody within visible

when they glanced at the source of the explosive noise was Rui

at his

what had happened. Those who had already