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.

in a chokehold.

after seven seconds of limited blood

seconds later,

Apprentice Rui Quarrier!"

The fight ended quickly.

gaped in

Hever to win after that intimidating performance against Nel, but

this

help

truth was a lot more

was extremely strong thanks to his astronomical 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 had figured

Rui, and the VOID

inputted the parameters of Hever, it

Metaphorically, of course.

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

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

technique Rui had generated many solutions to take Hever down. 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

was one of the most important variables in battle. Hever was decently compatible against Nel, allowing him

The VOID algorithm along with Phantom Step and Blink

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

one consolation, it's that he had only

Nel.

Lala Sec.

And finally, Kane.

he had only three contenders left. But

and attention drawing like the Stinger. Hopefully, people would