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

draw his strike away while simultaneously

had crashed into Gale, leaving him reeling. He just barely managed to throw up a guard as Rui pummeled him with short range blows boosted with the power of

Gale leaped back, grimacing.

panicked when he saw Rui dashing in,

feint. This time he was a bit more

Rui didn't dodge or

CLASP

to reduce the impact while simultaneously grasping

The Binding Lash technique.

Gale, dragging outside the realm of striking which is where his specialty

CRACK

allowed the user to dislocate and break arms as long as the timing was perfect and the physicality gap

these conditions were

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

older, but Rui had nailed the timing too

had. Despite the advantageous position Rui had, he didn't give up and ruthless pressed and twisted the already dislocated joint, causing unimaginable agony

been on Earth, this might have been a career ending injury, but in the world

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

did not enjoy the act of inflicting

exhaled deeply, getting up slowly, before throwing a

He meant it.

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

Rui offered a hand to Gale's good hand.

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