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

He focused.

physical energy his

in amazement despite the

It grew by the second, pouring

strong was

Nel wanted to know.

void boy!" He grinned as the savage weight of an apex predator oozed out of every

maelstrom of mental pressure the two

no one could look

person could draw

the supervisor commenced

RUMBLE

Nel had launched himself sent tremors across

snarled as he

WHOOSH

powerful swing crashed into a feint,

BAM!

kick at his ribs from the side, but Nel simply blocked it, pushing the strike

POW POW POW

Rui leapt back, having calmly mitigated the

mid-grade defensive techniques as well as one high-grade defensive

He grinned.

what if ordinary jabs

was capable

WHOOSH

shocking explosive speed, launching a flying

BAM

grimaced as he bruised his arm visibly despite his

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

another

Rui wasn't going to try and

WHOOSH

feint. He used Balanced Direction and Parallel Walk, to

BAM BAM BAM

a flurry of

with Outer Convergence and

was

against Nel's guard. His reflexes were too quick to allow Rui to land a clean

"Tsk." Rui retreated.

attacks aren't

WHOOSH

with the help of Primordial Instinct, stepping back to open up some distance

Or so everyone thought.

charged at him with a punch, Rui charged right

BOOM!!

clash shook

the sheer display

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

fist

matched the power of five

The boys furiously fought.

Fists were exchanged.

Kicks were dodged.

Attacks were endured.

And defenses were sieged!

lower than Nel's. A symmetric battle was

switched things up with

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