The Martial Unity

Hever's muscle memory flashed as he just barely managed to reach Rui's attack in time.

WHOOSH

It was a feint.

Where did he go?

THUD

Rui had crashed into his lower abdomen before Hever could even realize! The force of the takedown had toppled Hever onto the ground flat. Hever wrangled like a serpent, but to no avail.

CLASP

Rui used Shifting Silhouette, his only grappling defense technique to suppress all of Hever's grappling activity, and successfully mounted Hever.

BAM BAM BAM!

Rui mercilessly pounded on Hever like a gorilla, using the full power of Outer Convergence and Vital Pressure.

Hever had begun bleeding immensely. He did not have any defensive techniques like Inner Divergence, even if he did, they would not work very well, if at all in such a scenario. Inner Divergence required the user shifting the area of impact as close to the center of the body as possible, whereas Rui had mounted him, preventing such a defense.

Ultimately, the human body would not withstand the power of a Martial Apprentice. Rui even ended up holding back a bit, avoiding his head. One wrong mistake and Rui might have ended up even killing him.

Soon, Hever's condition had degraded immensely, but he never gave up. Rui couldn't really knock him out via blunt force trauma because his head would not rock because of the ground.

The solution was simply.

maneuvered across Hever's body, getting him in a chokehold. Hever's weaknesses and shortcoming were starting

would automatically shut down after seven seconds of limited blood or no blood

seconds later,

Apprentice Rui Quarrier!"

The fight ended quickly.

onlookers gaped in

expected Hever to win after that intimidating performance against Nel, but instead Rui

this

help but

truth was a lot more sober. He

mastery of Meteor Throw, everyone knew that he had many, many gaping holes and vulnerabilities on paper. However, his absurd counter-offensive prowess shined too bright, dominating his weaknesses and even overcompensating for them. No one

and

When Rui gave had inputted the parameters of Hever, it had squealed in ecstasy and gulped it up before excreting the

Metaphorically, of course.

but they all required the Blink technique one

of Blink and Phantom Step, two high-grade techniques, could Rui be able to finally crack a

he chose was Blink plus Mirage Dive, a grappling feint technique very similar to Phantom Step. This combination

in battle. Hever was decently compatible against Nel, allowing

Rui was extremely compatible against Hever. The VOID algorithm along with Phantom Step and Blink were the perfect tools to defeat Hever in a short

was unable to win without Blink. But he couldn't have his cake and eat it, too. But now all

there was one consolation, it's that he had only three

Nel.

Lala Sec.

And finally, Kane.

preserve his trump card until he had only three contenders left. But on the flip side, he would need to win despite the exposure of

not a very identifiable technique. It was not flashy and attention drawing