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

defeat Rui. Rui didn't even bother blocking them, he simply used Inner Divergence, Acute Edge and Elastic Shift to completely negate

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

was very cognizant of this

blows on vital areas was truly troubling. Although Dalen had

there any techniques barring a grade ten technique peak Apprentice-level technique that allowed the throat to

targeted, the only realistic solutions

would have avoided. But Dalen was accustomed to blocking and

Rui was faster. Much faster. Not only was he quicker because he was lighter, but his movement speed had increased significantly thanks to Outer Convergence. Furthermore, with maneuvering techniques, Rui

cope with for Dalen, especially when Rui had extremely

out of him with Phantom Step. Dalen simply couldn't cope with numerous techniques, many of which were

that Dalen simply could do no more than turtle up and simply guard against

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his steps with a well-timed sweeping kick. Rui had become so sharp at predicting Dalen with the VOID algorithm boosted by Primordial Instinct that he was able to intercept things that normally would be

as he had no crutch

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him flying with 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 were completely useless, since they

what Rui had been aiming

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distance away, before finally stopping. Although this was a win by rules, since Rui knocked him out of the ring. He knew Rui 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

least painful way for Dalen to