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

strike away while simultaneously using Flowing Canon once

power of Flowing Canon, Outer Convergence, Parallel Walk and Balanced Direction had 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

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

Rui didn't dodge

CLASP

the strike hit him, moving with it to reduce the impact

The Binding Lash technique.

way of defeating Gale, dragging outside the realm of striking which is where his specialty lied. In the domain of grappling, Rui had a clear undeniable

CRACK

The Binding Lash technique allowed the user to dislocate and break arms as long as

of these conditions were

algorithm allowed him to consciously and actively analyze, evaluate

virtue of being much older, but Rui

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

and damage to Gale, had this been on Earth, this might have been a career ending injury, but in the world of Gaea, within the Martial Art, this wasn't much of a

excruciating and even if Gale somehow broke through,

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

Gale exhaled deeply, getting up slowly, before throwing a bitter

He meant it.

was. Gale had spent a long time in the Academy, and even with

Rui offered a hand to Gale's good hand. "You're

now that he had 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 though. On becoming the representative,