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

He focused.

every ounce of physical energy

in amazement

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

strong was

Nel wanted to know.

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

the two boys generated burdened

no one could look

single person could draw

supervisor commenced

RUMBLE

with which Nel had

He snarled as he

WHOOSH

swing crashed into a

BAM!

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

POW POW POW

of swift jabs. Rui leapt back, having calmly mitigated the

was, even 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

capable of

WHOOSH

forth with shocking explosive speed, launching a

BAM

bruised his

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

launched another

wasn't going to try and tank it

WHOOSH

it with a feint. He used Balanced Direction and Parallel

BAM BAM BAM

a flurry

was powered with Outer Convergence and Vital

it was

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

"Tsk." Rui retreated.

ordinary attacks aren't doing

WHOOSH

kick cleanly with the help of Primordial Instinct,

Or so everyone thought.

a punch, Rui charged right back with

BOOM!!

clash shook

at the sheer display of

to the max with Balanced Direction and Parallel Walk, and launched a Flowing Canon attack amplified

fist hadn't

power 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

things up with Phantom

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