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

to draw his strike away while

barely managed to throw up a

Gale leaped back, grimacing.

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

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

Rui didn't dodge

CLASP

with it to reduce the impact while simultaneously grasping Gale's arm

The Binding Lash technique.

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

CRACK

his arm. The Binding Lash technique allowed the user to

of these conditions

improved not just his defense but counter-offense as well, allowing him to increase the accuracy of his timing immensely. The VOID algorithm allowed

virtue of being much older, but Rui had nailed the timing too well,

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

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 big deal. Healing

The pain was far too excruciating and even

of relief. He did not enjoy the act of inflicting pain on others. He carefully let go of Gale's

throwing a bitter smile at

He meant it.

the entire fight along with the 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 a long time in the Academy, and even

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

he won every other fight, he almost would not be chosen as the representative of the