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

Step to draw his strike away while simultaneously using

barely managed

Gale leaped back, grimacing.

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

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

didn't

CLASP

reduce the impact while simultaneously grasping Gale's arm

The Binding Lash technique.

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

CRACK

Gale grimaced 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

immensely. The VOID algorithm allowed him to consciously and actively analyze, evaluate and make a decision, while

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

everything he had. Despite the advantageous position Rui had, he didn't

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

pain was far too excruciating and even if Gale somehow

He did not enjoy the act of inflicting pain on others. He carefully

slowly, before throwing a bitter smile at Rui.

He meant it.

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

offered a hand to Gale's

lost to Rui this cleanly, even if he won every other fight, he almost would not be chosen as the representative of the Academy. "I haven't given up yet