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.

mental energy his mind had bloomed across

He focused.

every ounce of physical

in amazement despite the

of pressure from Rui's sheer focus. It grew by the

strong

Nel wanted to know.

the savage weight of an apex predator oozed out of every cell

mental pressure the two boys generated

no one

a single person could draw their

supervisor commenced

RUMBLE

which Nel had launched

as he launched a

WHOOSH

powerful swing crashed into a feint, hitting empty

BAM!

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

POW POW POW

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

strong as Nel was, even he couldn't overcome the combination of two mid-grade

He grinned.

ordinary jabs didn't

capable of much

WHOOSH

burst forth with shocking explosive speed, launching

BAM

his arm visibly

had long suspected it, but only now had he confirmed that

another loaded

Rui wasn't going to try and

WHOOSH

used Balanced Direction and Parallel

BAM BAM BAM

a

powered with Outer

was

land a clean strike on a vital, and when defended,

"Tsk." Rui retreated.

attacks aren't doing

WHOOSH

avoided a kick cleanly with the help of Primordial Instinct,

Or so everyone thought.

a punch,

BOOM!!

shook the

gaped at the sheer display

to the max with

fist

of five

The boys furiously fought.

Fists were exchanged.

Kicks were dodged.

Attacks were endured.

And defenses were sieged!

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

switched things up with

his speed did, and allowed