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.

couldn't

tell me...') Rui's eyes flew wide open. Could it be that his luck was so horrible, that he would be the seventy-ninth person who didn't have an opponent in the first

for fuck's sake!"

energy and sit

paused. "Maybe that's not such a

observe the strongest Martial Artists, especially the top three that he was wary of. Giving him a

difference, but it was better than nothing. The others had already dispersed as their matchups and assigned sparring rings had

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

of which of the two it was, it was unlikely to

he joined the Academy. That fight was so long ago, any

over to Nel's fight, keeping a close

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

know how a normal human could possibly come to

supervisor of their match announced, drawing Rui's

Rui frowned; this was the same stance he had taken in his fight against Felix nearly two years ago,

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

kicks. She'd placed all her weight on one leg so that her other leg would always be free

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

a threat to

let's see how overwhelmingly he beats her.') Rui narrowed his eyes as he concentrated on their

The supervisor

contorted as she tried her

BAM

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