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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to take Rui down with blows. To his surprise, Rui didn't

only mastered Vital Pressure for offense, and that was simply far too meagre to defeat Rui. Rui didn't even bother blocking them, he simply used Inner Divergence, Acute Edge and Elastic Shift to completely

waves of attacks on Dalen, who did his best to withstand all of them while also trying to inflict as much damage

battle could not be fought only via defense, Dalen was very cognizant of this fact. But his offense bounced off Rui like a beach

to land heavy blows on vital areas was truly troubling. Although Dalen had heightened his defense, vulnerable

to train the throat to be able to withstand the power of Outer Convergence nor were there any techniques barring a grade ten technique peak Apprentice-level

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one fighting him, he would have avoided. But Dalen was accustomed to

movement speed had increased significantly thanks to Outer Convergence. Furthermore, with maneuvering techniques, Rui was able

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

him with Phantom Step. Dalen simply couldn't

had become so unstoppably dominant that Dalen simply could do no more than turtle up and simply guard

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one of his steps with a well-timed sweeping kick. Rui had become so sharp at predicting Dalen with the

fell sideways as he had

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simply couldn't prevent being launched. Since Rui pushed instead of colliding

what Rui

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could have pummeled him 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 causing immense suffering to Dalen. But he chose to

least painful way