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.

of physical energy his body could

in amazement

Rui's sheer focus. It grew by the second, pouring onto him from a boundless

strong

Nel wanted to know.

He grinned as the savage weight of an apex predator oozed out of every

mental pressure the two boys

one could

could

supervisor

RUMBLE

which Nel had launched himself sent tremors

he

WHOOSH

powerful swing crashed into a feint,

BAM!

threw a powerful kick at his ribs from the side, but Nel simply blocked it, pushing the

POW POW POW

jabs. Rui leapt back, having calmly mitigated the strikes with

two mid-grade defensive techniques

He grinned.

if ordinary

was capable of much

WHOOSH

shocking explosive speed, launching a flying

BAM

bruised his

that he could not take too many of Nel's

another loaded

Rui wasn't going to try and tank it this

WHOOSH

with a feint. He used Balanced Direction and Parallel

BAM BAM BAM

a flurry of

was powered with Outer Convergence and Vital

it was

quick to allow Rui to land a clean strike on a vital, and when

"Tsk." Rui retreated.

attacks aren't doing the trick.')

WHOOSH

Primordial

Or so everyone thought.

at him with a punch, Rui charged right

BOOM!!

clash shook the

sheer display

charged up his momentum to the max with Balanced Direction and

fist hadn't

power of five

The boys furiously fought.

Fists were exchanged.

Kicks were dodged.

Attacks were endured.

And defenses were sieged!

speed were lower than Nel's.

things up with Phantom Step and

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