The Martial Unity

The five of them bantered a bit more, touching more into several aspects and parts of the fight, going deep into them and offering their thoughts and opinions.

"Outer Convergence: Whirlpool huh?" Rui murmured. "That's amazing. If its difficulty is above Outer Convergence then my talent and affinity for offensive techniques is probably not good enough. Still, it was very creative of you adding a conditioning element to it to create that unique attack Fae."

"Thanks." She replied appreciatively. "I had mastered the technique for the Martial Festival and the Martial Contest, but it was too optimistic to not lose without using it. In the end I lost despite using it."

"You came too close." Rui said, shaking his head. "Just the tiniest difference could have been game over for me. In the end, I was forced to reveal my trump card."

"What was that technique?" Fae frowned, glancing at his toe.

"It's a technique known as the Stinger." Rui explained. "Through intense conditioning, the toe is transformed into an extremely durable hard piercing instrument. That along with a kick amplified with Apprentice level techniques allows me to kick with piercing power significantly surpassing even musket bullets."

The four of them were impressed.

"That's a lethal trump card." Dalen sighed. Out of all of them, the revelation that both Rui and Kane had power and lethal trump cards that they had hidden had hit him the hardest. He had lost against both Rui and Fae, but he believed that the gap was not gigantic, if he learnt two or three techniques, he would be on par with them.

This fight had shown him how misguided that notion was.

Artist. He had endured Rui's and Fae's attacks better than almost anybody else. But now he had learnt that both Rui and Fae could have pretty much easily put him into a critical

estimated he could take four-to-five Stingers and

had a long way to

Kane. The trump cards were less effective against him because they didn't solve the fundamental that he posed to

any attack that they landed on him. The biggest issue was landing attacks on him at all. In that regard, the Stinger and the Whirlpool attacks were

cards." he noted. "Are you two going to continue using

sense to hide it after

use them if it is optimal to use them, and won't if it isn't optimal." Rui shrugged. He made his decisions after analyzing his opponent and the circumstances via thinking it through the algorithmic

start that Rui had hidden trump cards. It wasn't a particularly genius deduction on his part. He

of those seven techniques, he was only aware of Phantom Step, Inner Divergence, Outer

techniques he hadn't seen Rui

hopes that whatever those three techniques

did he know, that his hopes were

all times, and also his position vaguely at all times. He could sense Kane's

suddenly remembered. "Nel's fight isn't

replied. "It's

against again?" Dalen scratched

"I'm looking forward to that