The Martial Unity

Fae had grown immensely in power in the time that she had joined the Academy. Rui did not forget that even two years ago she was able to compete with Nel on roughly equal footing. She had grown vastly stronger than she was two years ago. That fact along with the ridiculous power she had demonstrated just then truly made Rui excited to fight her once more.

Part of the reason was that he had never actually beaten her in a fight yet. Thought that was also further because they hadn't had a serious proper spar in recent times. After Rui's third training stage, where he had mastered Outer Convergence, he had immediately begun under taking missions and when he returned, he had immediately jumped back into training for the Kandrian Martial Festival and the Martial Contest.

He simply didn't have an opportunity to spar against her.

('I'll get my first win against her this time.') Rui was determined to win whenever they fought against each other in the preliminary contest, whenever that happened.

"Let's watch Dalen's fight with Milliana." Kane said, drawing his attention.

"Oh?" Rui raised an eyebrow. "They got paired against each other? What odds."

"Yeah."

Dalen was a heavy defensive type, he was capable of enduring an immense amount of onslaught, and was one of the very few Martial Apprentices in the Academy that could endure Fae's onslaught head-on.

In comparison, Milliana was a stamina-oriented Martial Artist, whose fighting style was centered around outlasting her opponent.

good matchup.') Rui mused to

were both passive fighters for the most part, this would usually

The two

"As expected." Rui sighed.

they were only being true to their Martial Art.

take initiative because if they just kept staring at each other, she

able to complete

size, it was guaranteed he would tire faster than she did, he needed to exercise some flexibility. Even if he didn't launch a belligerent offensive attack like Fae did, he at the very least could not

exchange of blows, forcing Milliana to atleast engage with him, giving him an opportunity to

a long time." Rui sighed. The matches of the preliminary contest didn't have a time limit. This was because time limits

alone was a good

tournament with a half-an-hour time limit. She would be able to beat no one asides from the weakest of Martial Apprentices. This was extremely

a day to end. As for who would win, he found it hard to say. They were both close enough that the probability for either side winning

he observed them clash, he could see both of them

had diversified his Martial Art a little, he had always been exclusive defense. Up until recently, he had had

being the weakest, up until very recently he had nothing going for offense asides from Vital Pressure. The most foundational striking technique in the