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.

vast mental energy his mind had bloomed across

He focused.

ounce of physical

grinned in amazement

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

strong

Nel wanted to know.

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

of mental pressure the

one

single person could

the supervisor commenced the

RUMBLE

Nel had

he launched a wild

WHOOSH

into a feint, hitting empty

BAM!

kick at his ribs from the

POW POW POW

calmly mitigated the

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

He grinned.

what if ordinary jabs

capable of

WHOOSH

forth with shocking explosive speed, launching a flying

BAM

as he bruised his arm

confirmed that he could not

launched another

to try

WHOOSH

He used Balanced Direction and Parallel Walk, to circle around

BAM BAM BAM

a flurry

with Outer Convergence and Vital

was

His reflexes were too quick to allow Rui to land a clean strike on a vital, and when defended, his

"Tsk." Rui retreated.

aren't doing the trick.') He

WHOOSH

kick cleanly with the help of Primordial

Or so everyone thought.

when Nel charged at him with a punch,

BOOM!!

clash shook

gaped at the sheer display of

his most weighted strike, while Rui had charged up his momentum to the max with Balanced Direction and

Nel's fist hadn't

of five Apprentice-level techniques with his

The boys furiously fought.

Fists were exchanged.

Kicks were dodged.

Attacks were endured.

And defenses were sieged!

average offense, defense and speed were lower than Nel's. A symmetric battle was not in his

switched things up with Phantom Step and Primordial

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