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

meteoric impact struck

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

just barely managed to throw up a guard as Rui pummeled him with short

Gale leaped back, grimacing.

bearings, he rushed in. Gale panicked when he saw Rui

strike at Rui, expecting another feint. This time he was a bit more prepared, he didn't want

Rui didn't

CLASP

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

The Binding Lash technique.

outputted a grapple counter as the most apt way of defeating Gale, dragging outside the realm of striking which is where his specialty

CRACK

in pain as Rui managed to cleanly dislocate his arm. The Binding Lash technique allowed the user to dislocate and break arms as long as the

of these conditions were

counter-offense as well, allowing him to increase the accuracy of his timing immensely. The VOID algorithm allowed him to

of being much older, but Rui had nailed the timing too well, that shoulder's fate was

advantageous position Rui had, he didn't give up and ruthless

but in the world of Gaea, within the Martial Art, this wasn't much of a big deal. Healing

indicating his resignation. The pain was far too excruciating and even if Gale

of inflicting pain on others. He carefully let

before throwing a

He meant it.

from start to finish. Rui had shown him just how big the gap between them was. Gale had spent a long

fight man." Rui offered a hand to

almost would not be chosen