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

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 him with short range

Gale leaped back, grimacing.

to let him recuperate and regain his bearings, he rushed in. Gale panicked when he saw Rui dashing in, feeling an immense

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

didn't dodge or

CLASP

him, moving with it to reduce the

The Binding Lash technique.

the realm of striking which is where his specialty lied. In

CRACK

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

these

the accuracy of his timing immensely. The VOID algorithm allowed him to consciously and actively

but Rui had

Rui had, he didn't give up and ruthless pressed and

career ending injury, but in the

resignation. The pain was far too excruciating and even if Gale somehow broke through, he had no chance

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

up slowly, before throwing a

He meant it.

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

hand to Gale's good hand. "You're strong

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