The Martial Unity

"..."

"..."

Rui stared at him.

Nel stared back at him.

"You... what?"

"Broke through without em."

"No, surely..."

"Nope."

Rui tilted his head with incredulous confusion.

Broke through to Martial Apprentice without learning a single technique? What sort of nonsense was that?

Rui wasn't even sure what to say to that.

He wasn't even sure he believed him.

Was he lying to get Rui to lower his guard so he could later unveil them?

Looking at his sincere clueless expression, Rui shook his head, this guy was serious.

But wasn't that even more absurd?

"You... What is your Martial Path?"

"Take your stances." The supervisor had arrived, and quickly told them to be ready.

"Heh." Nel chuckled as he crouched, letting his arms dangle freely.

"My Martial Path is to beat everyone up using my body alone." He declared, his aura growing more feral by the second.

"..."

Rui's eyes flew wide open at those words.

For the very first time, he had run into someone with a Martial Path even more obtuse than his own!

"Take your stance." The supervisor insisted to Rui.

"I see..." Rui ignored him, staring straight at Nel with a boundless fascination and excitement.

He just couldn't wait!

"...My Martial Path is to beat everyone up with my VOID alone."

Rui adopted a neutral all-rounder stance, dividing his weight perfectly, positioning his arms and legs to be equally conducive to offense, defense and maneuvering.

"Fuuu..." He exhaled.

His mind went blank.

There was nothing.

And slowly...

He focused.

his mind had bloomed

He focused.

physical

in amazement

immense amounts of pressure from Rui's sheer focus. It grew by the second, pouring onto him from

how strong

Nel wanted to know.

He grinned as the savage weight of an apex predator

pressure the two

one could

could draw their eyes

supervisor commenced the

RUMBLE

with which Nel had launched himself sent tremors across the

he launched a

WHOOSH

powerful swing crashed into a feint, hitting

BAM!

his ribs from the side,

POW POW POW

calmly mitigated

strong as Nel was, even he couldn't overcome the combination of two mid-grade defensive techniques as well

He grinned.

ordinary

capable of

WHOOSH

forth with shocking explosive speed, launching a

BAM

his arm visibly despite his defensive

he confirmed that he could not

launched another loaded

try and tank

WHOOSH

with a feint. He used Balanced Direction and Parallel

BAM BAM BAM

a flurry

was powered with Outer Convergence and Vital

it was not

Rui to land

"Tsk." Rui retreated.

ordinary attacks aren't

WHOOSH

with the help of Primordial Instinct, stepping back to open

Or so everyone thought.

Nel charged at him with a punch, Rui charged right back with an

BOOM!!

clash shook

at the sheer

his momentum to the max with Balanced Direction and Parallel Walk, and launched a Flowing

Nel's fist

the power of five Apprentice-level techniques

The boys furiously fought.

Fists were exchanged.

Kicks were dodged.

Attacks were endured.

And defenses were sieged!

were lower than Nel's. A symmetric

things up with

allowed him to avoid more strikes than his speed did, and