The Martial Unity

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Rui released an onslaught of heavy blows, each bolstered by Vital Pressure and Outer Convergence. Dalen simply guarded against each of them. He was one of the few people in the entire Academy who could straightforwardly withstand Rui's full power.

Although Rui didn't hit as hard as Fae or Nel, there weren't many people who hit harder than him. Outer Convergence was an incredibly difficult and powerful techniques that was just a few grades short of being grade ten, only senior striking specialists could over power in a contest of blows.

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Rui's strike found itself wiggling through his guard and striking his throat, earning a grimace for him. Dalen was just too rock solid, it would take him forever, if ever at all, to wear him down with ordinary strikes.

That's why Rui had aimed for vulnerable and vital areas with Vital Pressure, and tried his best to harm them with Outer Convergence.

Throat.

Solar Plexus.

Testicles.

Eyes.

Even the nose, for momentary incapacitation.

Rui didn't even bother trying to strike his honed muscles or his rock-solid bones. Only through these vital areas could Rui possibly hurt him.

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take Rui down with blows. To his surprise,

and that was simply far too meagre to defeat Rui. Rui didn't even bother blocking them, he simply used Inner Divergence, Acute

of them while also trying

be fought only via defense, Dalen was very cognizant of this fact.

was making meaningful progress. His ability to land heavy blows on vital areas was truly troubling. Although Dalen had heightened his defense, vulnerable areas remained vulnerable

Outer Convergence nor were there any techniques barring a

were targeted, the only realistic solutions that

him, he would have avoided. But Dalen was

was lighter, but his movement speed had increased significantly thanks to Outer Convergence. Furthermore, with maneuvering techniques, Rui was able to reposition himself

with for Dalen, especially when Rui had extremely impressive and inhumanly perfect timing with the VOID algorithm and

made a fool out of him with Phantom Step. Dalen simply couldn't cope with numerous techniques, many

become so unstoppably dominant that Dalen simply could do no more than turtle up and simply guard against the incoming onslaught. But that had weaknesses as

FLICK

at predicting Dalen with the VOID algorithm boosted by Primordial Instinct that he was able to

fell sideways as he had no crutch

BOOM

a double palmed push, amplified with Outer Convergence. With merely one foot on the ground, Dalen simply couldn't prevent being launched. Since Rui pushed instead of colliding a strike against him, all of his defensive techniques

Rui had

THUD

to the ground until he eventually managed to beat him black-and-blue or manage to wiggle in a lethal attack on a vital area

least painful way