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 struck

his strike away while simultaneously using Flowing

into Gale, leaving him reeling. He just barely managed to throw up a guard as Rui pummeled

Gale leaped back, grimacing.

let him recuperate and regain his bearings, he rushed in. Gale panicked when he

at Rui, expecting another feint. This time he was a

Rui didn't dodge

CLASP

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

The Binding Lash technique.

the most apt way of defeating Gale, dragging outside the realm of striking which is

CRACK

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

these conditions

accuracy of his timing immensely. The VOID algorithm allowed him

Rui had nailed the

excruciating pain he felt, Gale did give up, struggling with everything he had. Despite the advantageous position Rui had, he didn't give up and ruthless pressed

career ending injury, but in the world of Gaea, within the Martial Art, this wasn't

was far too excruciating and even if Gale somehow broke through, he

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

Gale exhaled deeply, getting up slowly, before throwing a bitter smile at Rui. "You're truly

He meant it.

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,

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

said, 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