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 "It's been two years, the information we have is extremely outdated.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.

Martial Art Rui 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

had trouble hurting him back then." Fae agreed. "Mia is a sound-based fighter, by the way. I don't

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

nerve striking

said, earning a confused look

with interest. "I'll have to look further into that, what

on

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

of them

heat, breathing, vibrations, nerves friction, sound and many

some ways, Rui should have expected this, how could they possibly reach at the peak of their respective Academies if they

wasn't possible. Out of the five people in the Hajin Academy who all had a chance of being chosen as the representative, none of them

all deviants

was how well Rui would do against the other

quite significantly. He had no experience against many of these Martial Art and techniques at all before. Furthermore, he wasn't sure he had the tools to defeat many of these Martial

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

making it less affective. Rui had already long recognized this shortcoming, but he

the more he realized how difficult

confounding problem. Furthermore, it wasn't one or two or even handful

difficult to use the secondary portions of the algorithm. Then there was the fact

master, it was too complex, too difficult. Too mentally intensive. It essentially only worked

breakthrough to Martial Apprentice, he was able to master a portion of it, but he still had some ways to go