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 simultaneously using Flowing

reeling. He just barely managed to throw up a guard as Rui pummeled him with short range blows boosted

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 amount of mental pressure from Rui's Martial

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

Rui didn't dodge or

CLASP

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

The Binding Lash technique.

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

CRACK

Lash technique allowed the user to dislocate and break arms as long as the timing

these

algorithm allowed him to consciously

much older, but Rui had nailed the timing too well, that shoulder's fate was

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

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

even if

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

exhaled deeply, getting up slowly, before throwing a bitter

He meant it.

shackling pressure that Rui was putting on him mentally 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 than most Apprentices in the Academy currently. But Rui

offered a hand to Gale's good hand.

luck." Gale said, now that he had lost to Rui this cleanly, even if he won every other fight, he almost would not be chosen as