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.

was when it

Kane disappeared.

He didn't run.

didn't bob and

dance around his opponent like he

simply and irreconcilably,

Milliana and

"Where did he go?!"

kind of technique

impassive

the other

his eyes. He had wordlessly closed his eyes the second Kane disappeared from

maximized Primordial Instinct and Seismic

minimize one's presence, as well as maneuvering-based misdirection techniques to draw the target's attention away from the user subconsciously whenever

was truly absurdly powerful technique when mastered since it meant you were effectively invisible when you moved, and it was an absurdly difficult technique that made you extremely difficult to

Rui shut off his vision was because he knew he would not be able to sense Kane at all with his normal senses, the misdirection was too strong and Rui had not trained

had honed two new senses in the form of Seismic Mapping

primarily wanted to test how effective they were at combating the

ten seconds had passed since the fight had begun. To the ordinary observer, Gale was merely getting pummeled by an invisible force. One could only see Kane momentarily appear when he

friends continued gaping

was still motionless

"Incredible..." He finally muttered.

wasn't able to precisely

even able to

could properly sense was the direction Kane was

That was all.

watching a censored video. Asides from direction, everything else was almost

had huge range, environmental mapping capabilities as well as object detection while Primordial Instinct had given him extremely heightened instinctual senses and evaluation as well as predictive measures. Together these two techniques should have

these techniques combined were barely able to make a dent against the Void Step