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

He focused.

physical

in amazement

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

strong was

Nel wanted to know.

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

the two

one could look

could draw

supervisor

RUMBLE

with which Nel had launched himself sent tremors across the

snarled as he

WHOOSH

powerful swing crashed into a

BAM!

the side, but Nel simply blocked

POW POW POW

Rui leapt back, having calmly

mid-grade defensive techniques as well as one high-grade defensive technique with ordinary jabs

He grinned.

if ordinary jabs

was capable

WHOOSH

with shocking explosive speed, launching a flying

BAM

his arm visibly despite his

now had he confirmed that he could not take too many

launched another

to try

WHOOSH

He used Balanced Direction and Parallel Walk, to circle

BAM BAM BAM

a flurry of

strike was powered with Outer Convergence and

it was

to land a clean

"Tsk." Rui retreated.

aren't doing the trick.')

WHOOSH

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

Or so everyone thought.

with a punch, Rui charged right

BOOM!!

clash shook the

the sheer display of raw

charged up his momentum to the max with Balanced Direction and Parallel Walk, and launched a Flowing Canon

fist hadn't backed

power of five Apprentice-level techniques with

The boys furiously fought.

Fists were exchanged.

Kicks were dodged.

Attacks were endured.

And defenses were sieged!

and speed were lower than

up with Phantom

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