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.

him in a chokehold. Hever's weaknesses and shortcoming were starting

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

seconds later, Rui demonstrated

Quarrier!"

The fight ended quickly.

onlookers gaped

Hever to win after that intimidating performance against Nel, but

this

help

shook his head. He wished he was, but the truth was a lot more sober. He was

paper. However, his absurd counter-offensive prowess

and the VOID

VOID algorithm loved weaknesses. When Rui gave had inputted the parameters of Hever, it had squealed in ecstasy and gulped it up before excreting the desire

Metaphorically, of course.

had deduced many solutions that devastated Hever, but they all required the Blink technique one

with the combination of Blink and Phantom Step, two high-grade techniques, could Rui be able to finally crack a hole in

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

decently compatible against Nel, allowing him to crush every single initiative

with Phantom Step and Blink were the perfect tools to defeat

he couldn't have his cake and eat it, too. But now all of his trump cards

that he had only

Nel.

Lala Sec.

And finally, Kane.

least, he managed to preserve his trump card until he had only three contenders left. But on the flip side, he would need to

and attention drawing like the Stinger. Hopefully, people would