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

so horrible, that he would be the seventy-ninth person who didn't have an opponent in

fuck's sake!" He cursed, drawing

to contain his energy and sit watching while

that's not such a bad

he was wary of. Giving him a chance to grasp their prowess, and understand how strong

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

He also knew which technique Kane had mastered in recent times.

it

joined the Academy. That fight was so long ago, any specific piece of information from back then was utterly irrelevant to his current

over to Nel's fight, keeping a close eye

mastered Primordial Instinct, he had been able to do more than just subconsciously evaluate danger. Before, strong creatures and Martial

much gave 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

stance!" the supervisor of their

this was the same stance he had taken in his fight against

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

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

immediately concluded she was going to loose. Primordial Instinct combined with a lifetime of experience and research into combat psychology allowed him to evaluate his opponents far

too weak to pose a threat to either

let's see how overwhelmingly he beats her.') Rui narrowed his eyes as he concentrated on their fight, he didn't want

supervisor commenced

tried her best

BAM

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