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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with blows. To his surprise, Rui didn't

was simply far too meagre to defeat Rui. Rui didn't even

Dalen, who did his best to withstand all of them while

Dalen was very cognizant of this

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

of Outer Convergence nor were there any techniques barring a grade ten technique peak Apprentice-level technique that allowed the throat to

when vulnerable areas were targeted, the only realistic solutions that existed was avoid

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

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

Rui had extremely impressive and inhumanly perfect timing with the VOID

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

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

FLICK

intercepting one of 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

sideways as he had no crutch

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prevent being launched. Since Rui pushed instead of colliding

was what Rui

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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

way