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.

energy his mind had

He focused.

of physical energy his

grinned in amazement

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

strong was

Nel wanted to know.

whose Martial Path is stronger void boy!" He grinned as the savage weight of an apex predator oozed out of every cell in

of mental pressure the

one

a single person could draw their

supervisor commenced

RUMBLE

had launched himself sent

snarled as he launched a wild

WHOOSH

powerful swing crashed into a feint, hitting

BAM!

from the side, but Nel simply blocked it,

POW POW POW

leapt back, having calmly mitigated the strikes with Inner Divergence, Elastic Shift and

couldn't overcome the combination of two mid-grade defensive techniques as well as one high-grade defensive technique

He grinned.

ordinary jabs

capable

WHOOSH

shocking explosive speed, launching a

BAM

bruised his arm visibly despite

but only now had he confirmed that he could not take too many of

launched another

going to try and tank it

WHOOSH

cleanly avoided it with a feint. He used Balanced Direction and

BAM BAM BAM

a flurry

was powered with Outer Convergence and Vital

was

to allow Rui to land a clean strike

"Tsk." Rui retreated.

expected, ordinary attacks aren't

WHOOSH

of Primordial Instinct, stepping

Or so everyone thought.

him with a punch, Rui charged right

BOOM!!

clash shook

sheer display

strike, while Rui had charged up his momentum to the max with Balanced Direction and Parallel Walk, and launched a Flowing Canon

Nel's fist hadn't

power of five Apprentice-level techniques

The boys furiously fought.

Fists were exchanged.

Kicks were dodged.

Attacks were endured.

And defenses were sieged!

offense, defense and speed were lower than Nel's. A

with Phantom Step

avoid more strikes than his speed did,