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

Step to draw his strike away while

crashed into Gale, leaving him reeling. He just barely managed to throw up a guard as Rui pummeled

Gale leaped back, grimacing.

his bearings, he rushed in. Gale panicked when he saw Rui dashing in, feeling an immense amount of

feint. This time he was a bit more prepared, he didn't want to be caught

Rui didn't dodge or

CLASP

to reduce the impact while simultaneously grasping

The Binding Lash technique.

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

CRACK

as Rui managed to cleanly dislocate his arm. The Binding Lash technique allowed the user to dislocate and

of these

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

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

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 already dislocated joint, causing

been a career ending injury, but in the world of Gaea, within the Martial Art, this wasn't much of a big

even if Gale somehow broke

did not enjoy the act of inflicting pain on others. He carefully let go of Gale's arm, not wanting hurt

deeply, getting up slowly, before throwing a bitter smile at Rui. "You're

He meant it.

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,

man." Rui offered a hand

to Rui this cleanly, even if he won every other fight, he almost would not be chosen as