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

He focused.

of physical energy his body could

in amazement despite the

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

strong was

Nel wanted to know.

stronger void boy!" He grinned as the savage

the two boys generated burdened

one could

single person could draw their eyes

supervisor commenced the

RUMBLE

Nel had launched himself sent tremors across

as he launched a

WHOOSH

into

BAM!

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

POW POW POW

Rui leapt back, having calmly

Nel was, even he couldn't overcome the combination of two mid-grade defensive techniques as well as one high-grade defensive

He grinned.

what if ordinary jabs didn't

capable

WHOOSH

forth with shocking explosive speed, launching a

BAM

grimaced as he bruised his

suspected it, but only now had he confirmed that he could not take too many of Nel's more charged

launched another

try and tank

WHOOSH

it with a feint. He used Balanced Direction and Parallel Walk, to

BAM BAM BAM

launched a flurry

strike was powered with Outer Convergence and Vital

it was not

were too quick to allow Rui to land a clean strike on a vital,

"Tsk." Rui retreated.

ordinary attacks aren't doing the trick.')

WHOOSH

Primordial Instinct, stepping back to open up

Or so everyone thought.

charged at him with a punch, Rui

BOOM!!

shook

at the sheer display of raw

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

Nel's fist hadn't

the power of five Apprentice-level techniques

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

things up with

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