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

Phantom Step to draw his strike away

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 him with short range blows boosted with

Gale leaped back, grimacing.

rushed in. Gale panicked when he saw Rui dashing in, feeling an immense amount of mental pressure from Rui's

threw a cautious strike at Rui, expecting another feint. This time he was a bit more

Rui didn't dodge or

CLASP

reduce the

The Binding Lash technique.

grapple counter as the most apt way of defeating Gale, dragging outside the realm

CRACK

the user to dislocate and break arms as long as the timing was perfect and the physicality gap wasn't too

of these conditions were

his timing immensely. The VOID algorithm allowed him to consciously and actively analyze, evaluate and make a decision, while the Primordial Instinct technique allowed him

virtue of being much older, but Rui had nailed the

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

had no qualms about inflicting pain 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

tapped Rui's arm three times, indicating his resignation. The pain was far too excruciating and even if

his grip with a sigh of relief. He did not enjoy the act of inflicting pain on others. He carefully let go of

before 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 with his mediocre growth, he had come to accumulate more power

a hand to

other fight, he almost would not be chosen as the representative of the Academy. "I haven't given up yet