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.

Hever's body, getting him in a chokehold.

shut down after seven seconds of limited

seven seconds later,

Apprentice Rui Quarrier!" The

The fight ended quickly.

gaped in

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

Rui this abysmally

help

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

many, many gaping holes and vulnerabilities on paper. However, his absurd counter-offensive prowess shined too bright,

Rui, and the VOID

inputted the parameters of Hever, it had squealed in ecstasy and gulped it up before

Metaphorically, of course.

solutions that devastated Hever, but they all required the Blink technique one way

with the combination of Blink and Phantom Step, two high-grade techniques, could Rui be

The solution he chose was Blink plus Mirage Dive, a grappling feint technique very similar to Phantom Step. This combination allowed Rui to permanently turn the battle into ground grappling, where Meteor Swing

the most important variables in battle. Hever was decently compatible against Nel, allowing him to crush every single initiative Nel took and even

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

without Blink. But he couldn't have his cake and eat it, too. But now all of his

consolation, it's that he

Nel.

Lala Sec.

And finally, Kane.

he had only three contenders left. But on the flip side, he would need

technique. It was not flashy and attention drawing like the Stinger. Hopefully, people would not have identified