The Martial Unity

Still, Rui wasn't afraid. He had grown tremendously stronger in the nearly two years he had joined that Academy as well. It was a universal fact that Rui had gained the most amount of power since in the nearly two years since they joined. Not a single student of the Martial Academy could match his growth rate! Especially not Nel, who had taken a whole two years to accomplish what Rui had accomplished in two months.

Did this necessarily mean that Nel was weaker?

No, it did not.

Nel had started out far stronger than anybody else, even if Rui grew stronger much, much faster, he had started out from a much, much weaker place. It would depend on whether or not Rui's astronomical growth was enough to close the astronomical gap.

Rui shook his head.

Speculation didn't matter. Neither did theorizing and conjecture.

Reality would soon demonstrate the truth, and Rui would be able to find out for himself whether he was stronger than Nel, or weaker.

Currently, his three biggest threats were Nel, Kane and Fae. Although there were other strong Martial Artists, like the seniors from the batch before them. Rui had sparred against them, and did not think they were in the top three threats, still he did not dismiss them either.

Soon the matchups were announced. Since there were seventy-nine, one student would be left out every time. But this didn't matter, because every student will have faced every other student by the time the month ended.

Rui skimmed through the matchups, barely able to contain his excitement, looking for his matchup.

He looked.

Looked some more.

And a little more.

he couldn't

eyes flew wide open. Could it be that his luck was so horrible, that he

for fuck's sake!" He

have to contain his energy and sit

that's not such a

Martial Artists, especially the top three that he was wary of. Giving him a chance to grasp their prowess, and understand how strong they had grown, maybe even gain data for the VOID

that it would make a meaningful difference, but it was better than nothing. The others had already dispersed as their matchups and assigned sparring rings had already been decided. He walked over taking a seat at a place where he could observe Kane, Fae and Nel with

of their techniques, having spent two years with them. He also knew which technique

it was, it

Nel. He had seen Nel fight only once since he joined the Academy. That fight was so long ago,

over to Nel's fight, keeping a close eye

to do more than just subconsciously evaluate danger. Before, strong creatures and Martial Artists left an invisible

him the impression of a savage wild animal. He didn't know how a normal human could possibly come to develop to have such a temperament, but it was

your stance!" the supervisor of their match

of lazy arrogance covering his face. Rui frowned; this was the same stance he had taken in his fight against Felix nearly two years ago, how was it possible for his

low, as they curved to the other side, all of her weight was on her left leg, which was in front

concluded. Her positioning of the arms were for generating as much torque for kicks. She'd placed all her weight

combat psychology allowed him to evaluate his opponents far more accurately and precisely than anybody else

a threat to either

eyes as he concentrated on their fight, he

The supervisor commenced

contorted as she tried her

BAM

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