The Martial Unity

The two dashed towards each other.

('I'm faster.') Rui realized.

Yet despite this, Gale's strike reached first.

WHOOSH

Rui dodged the strike.

Gale continued dishing an onslaught of strikes and Rui avoided all of them cleanly. Ever since he mastered Primordial Instinct, his timing had grown much sharper and more accurate. Its synergy with the VOID algorithm was truly impressive.

Gale didn't stop, his strikes were straight forward and had a huge range. He launched all of them from outside Rui's striking range, so Rui wasn't able to do much.

('He's a long-range striking specialist.') Rui realized. Each strike had a huge reach, and he launched them in a way that deliberately prevented Rui from reaching close enough to launch his own attacks.

Rui keenly observed this before making a decision, he stopped avoiding Gale and instead dashed against him once more.

A flash of surprise morphed into Gale's expression as he quickly launched a straight jab at Rui, growing even more surprised when he saw Rui didn't avoid them, and instead ran into it even faster. Just as the strike was about to hit Rui

WHOOSH

Rui disappeared.

('A feint!') Gale realized.

BAM

impact struck

Phantom Step to draw his strike away while simultaneously using Flowing Canon once he reached striking

Gale, leaving him reeling. He just barely managed to throw up

Gale leaped back, grimacing.

recuperate and regain his bearings, he rushed in. Gale panicked when he saw Rui dashing

expecting another feint. This time he was a bit more prepared,

Rui didn't dodge or

CLASP

strike hit him, moving with it to reduce the impact while simultaneously grasping Gale's arm with

The Binding Lash technique.

the most apt way of defeating Gale, dragging outside the realm of striking which is where his specialty lied.

CRACK

cleanly dislocate his arm. The Binding Lash technique allowed the user to dislocate and break arms as long as the timing was perfect and the physicality gap wasn't

these conditions were

improved not just his defense but counter-offense as well, allowing him to increase the accuracy of his timing immensely. The VOID algorithm allowed him to consciously and actively analyze, evaluate and make

Rui had nailed

pain he felt, Gale did give up, struggling with everything he had. Despite the advantageous position Rui had, he didn't give up and ruthless pressed and twisted the

might have been a career ending injury, but in the world of Gaea, within the Martial

tapped Rui's arm three times, indicating his resignation. The pain was far too excruciating and even if Gale somehow broke through, he

with a sigh of relief. He did not enjoy the act of inflicting pain on others. He carefully let go of

up slowly, before throwing a bitter

He meant it.

that Rui was putting on him mentally the entire fight along with the perfect fight that he'd displayed from start to finish. Rui had shown him just how big the gap between them was. Gale had spent a long time in the Academy, and

fight man." Rui offered a hand to Gale's good

luck." Gale said, now that he had lost to Rui this cleanly, even if he won every other fight, he almost would not be chosen as the