The Martial Unity

"Cheer up." Fae said. "You did a good job."

Dalen nodded. "It was a hard fight. If I hadn't gotten you by the end, you had a solid chance of winning."

Milliana sighed mildly, nodding slightly. She wasn't very expressive, but everyone could see she was dejected by her very first match resulting in a loss.

"The best part is that you can make improvements rather easily, just by shifting your tactics a little." Rui told her, trying to encourage her.

The fight had ended, and all five of them had gathered after their first fight.

Just as Kane was about to try and console her, a voice interrupted him.

"Apprentice Kane Arrancar." A staff member addressed. "Your second official match is ready."

Kane's expression drooped, as he nodded wordlessly. "I'll catch you guys after."

They all bade him good luck, before heading to his ring. Kane had finished his fight earlier than all of them, thus it made sense that he was assigned a fight sooner than all of them, especially, he was assigned his first fight the latest.

"His opponent..." Rui glanced at the boy, recognizing him instantly. "Gale!"

What odds. What was probability that Gale would get matched up with Kane immediately after Rui?

('What terrible luck, too.') Rui thought. He knew Gale's strength as well as Kane's prowess well enough to know Gale had almost no chance of beating Kane.

"Take your stances." The supervisor instructed.

"Looking forward to a good fight." Gale took his stance, as stance that allowed him to launch ranged blows with the greatest of ease.

"Yeah." Kane impassively replied, before taking an even balanced stance that allowed him maneuver with the greatest of ease.

"Begin!" The supervisor commenced the match.

that was when it

Kane disappeared.

He didn't run.

bob

around his opponent like he normally

simply and irreconcilably,

and Dalen were

"Where did he go?!"

of technique allows for such

Even the impassive Milliana

the other hand, wasn't even

watching with his eyes. He had wordlessly closed his

immediately maximized Primordial Instinct and

psychological tricks to minimize one's presence, as well as maneuvering-based misdirection techniques to draw the target's attention

were effectively invisible when you moved,

Kane at all with his normal senses, the misdirection was too strong and Rui had not trained in any anti-misdirection defensive measures, nor his normal senses to a superhuman level with sensory

senses in the

test how effective they were at combating the

observer, Gale was merely getting pummeled by an invisible force. One could

friends continued gaping

hand, was still motionless with

"Incredible..." He finally muttered.

able to precisely sense

even able to precisely sense

he could properly sense was the direction Kane

That was all.

video. Asides

was truly shocked that Void Step were able to obfuscate Kane to such an incredible degree against two roughly high-grade sensory techniques. Seismic Mapping was above average, while Primordial Instinct was a thorough and unshakably high-grade technique. Seismic Mapping had huge range,

of these techniques combined were barely able to make a dent against