The Martial Unity

"Alright alright, that's enough." He broke the two apart. "Are all of them descendants of Martial families?"

"Yep." Kane replied.

"Figured." Rui sighed. "Atleast, that makes reconnaissance easier. What can you tell me about them?"

"Honestly, not much." Fae sighed. "It's been two years, the information we have is extremely outdated. Look how much all of us have grown in two years, after all."

Rui nodded. "I understand that. Just tell me what type of Martial Art they have."

"Sure." Fae agreed. "I know Fiona and Ian the best, so I'll begin with them. Fiona as I told you is an extreme all-rounder with immense mastery in all aspects of combat with her sheer talent and affinity for all fields. Ian on the other hand is much more specialized."

"Specialized in what?"

"He specializes in breathing techniques."

"Interesting..." Rui's face flashed with intrigue. He hadn't heard of a breathing technique specialist before, there certainly wasn't one in the Academy.

"He had mastered breathing techniques incredibly quickly at a young age. I have no idea how strong he is now." Fae said. "But given his talent and his age, he should have an incredibly solid Martial Art. I would suggest being careful with him."

"Will remember that." Rui said. "Anybody else?"

"Ferlicia was a heat technique user, if I remember correctly..." Kane pondered aloud.

"Right, though she had only mastered two techniques when we'd last met." Fae said.

hadn't seen before. He had seen temperature-based techniques in the Apprentice library, of course, but he wasn't familiar with them.

Erigaisi is an extremely strong defensive fighter. He's unbelievably tough." Kane

I had trouble hurting him back then." Fae agreed. "Mia is a sound-based fighter, by the way. I don't know her personally but I've heard plenty of

as he went down the list. "He's a nerve striking Martial Artist. When he hits your nerves, they really fucking hurt and he can do all kinds of

nerve striking Martial Art."

fights with vibrations." Fae said, earning

have

and Kane went on to divulge everything they knew on all the other

end, it didn't amount to much. However, what little he had learnt was extremely interesting and

one of them was colourful and

heat, breathing, vibrations, nerves friction, sound and

expected this, how could they possibly reach at the peak of their respective

the five people in the Hajin Academy who all had

deviants in their own

Rui would do against the other

a difficult question to answer. These Martial Artists had Martial Art that deviated from the norm quite significantly. He had no experience against many of these Martial

algorithm was certainly ill-equipped to face many of these Martial Art techniques, even if he

VOID algorithm was not adapted to Gaea-based Martial Art yet, making it less affective. Rui had

the more he realized how difficult this ambition

almost magical Martial Art techniques? IT was truly confounding problem. Furthermore, it wasn't one or two or even handful

of the fundamentals and the core of the algorithmic system were still entirely useful, it still became quite difficult to use the secondary portions of the algorithm. Then there was the fact that Rui

algorithm simply wasn't possible to master, it was too complex, too difficult. Too mentally

received from his second cognitive growth stage and the breakthrough to Martial Apprentice, he was