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

strike away while

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

Gale leaped back, grimacing.

panicked when he saw Rui

feint. This time he was

Rui didn't dodge or

CLASP

reduce the impact while simultaneously grasping Gale's

The Binding Lash technique.

the most apt way of defeating Gale, dragging outside the realm

CRACK

cleanly dislocate his arm. The Binding Lash technique allowed the user to dislocate and break arms as

of these

increase the accuracy of his timing immensely. The VOID algorithm allowed

being much older, but Rui had nailed the timing

struggling with everything he had. Despite the advantageous position Rui had, he didn't give up

damage to Gale, had this been on Earth, this might have been a career ending injury, but in the world of Gaea, within the

far too excruciating and even if Gale somehow broke through, he had no chance

grip with a sigh of relief. He did not enjoy the act of inflicting pain on others. He carefully let go of Gale's arm, not wanting hurt him

deeply, getting up slowly, before throwing a bitter

He meant it.

big the gap between them was. Gale had

fight man." Rui offered a hand to Gale's

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