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 find

don't tell me...') Rui's eyes flew wide open. Could it be that his luck was so horrible, that he would

sake!" He

he would have to contain his energy and

"Maybe that's not such

him a chance to grasp their prowess, and understand

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

which technique Kane had mastered in recent times. As for Fae, her mastery speed wasn't as high as his own, in the span of four months she at most could have mastered one powerful

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

two, he basically knew nothing about Nel. He had seen Nel fight only once since he joined the Academy.

keeping a close eye on

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

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

your stance!" the supervisor of their match announced,

down, swaying loosely, an expression 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

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

for kicks. She'd placed

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

was too weak to pose a threat

narrowed his eyes as he

supervisor commenced

dashed towards Nel with a fierce expression. He body contorted as she tried her best to

BAM

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