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 bloomed

He focused.

physical energy his

grinned in amazement

It grew by the second, pouring onto him from a

how strong was

Nel wanted to know.

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

mental pressure the two boys generated

no one could

could draw their eyes

the supervisor commenced the

RUMBLE

sheer force with which Nel had launched

snarled as he launched

WHOOSH

swing crashed into a feint, hitting

BAM!

kick at his ribs from the side, but

POW POW POW

leapt back, having calmly mitigated the strikes with

the combination of two mid-grade defensive techniques as well as one high-grade defensive technique with ordinary

He grinned.

what if ordinary

was capable of

WHOOSH

burst forth with shocking explosive speed, launching

BAM

his arm visibly despite

only now had he confirmed that he could not

launched another loaded

going to try

WHOOSH

it with a feint. He used Balanced Direction and

BAM BAM BAM

a flurry of

with Outer

was not

against Nel's guard. His reflexes were too quick to allow Rui to land a clean strike on a vital, and when

"Tsk." Rui retreated.

attacks aren't doing the trick.')

WHOOSH

help of Primordial

Or so everyone thought.

him with a punch, Rui charged right back with an

BOOM!!

shook

at the sheer display of raw

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

fist hadn't

the power of five

The boys furiously fought.

Fists were exchanged.

Kicks were dodged.

Attacks were endured.

And defenses were sieged!

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

switched things up with

strikes than his speed did, and