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 "It's been two years, the information we have is extremely outdated.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

type of 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

is an extremely strong defensive fighter. He's unbelievably

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

of Byron." Kane said as he went down the list. "He's a nerve striking Martial Artist. When

nerve striking Martial Art."

said, earning a confused look from

said with interest. "I'll have to look further into

if I recall correctly..." Fae and Kane went on

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

of them was colourful

breathing, vibrations, nerves friction, sound and

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

all had a chance of being chosen as the representative, none of

were all deviants in

question was how well Rui would do against

norm quite significantly. He had no experience against many of these Martial Art and

was certainly ill-equipped to face many of these

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

went, the more he realized how

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

it still became quite difficult to use the secondary portions of the algorithm. Then there was the fact that Rui still hadn't fixed

algorithm simply wasn't possible to master, it was too complex, too difficult. Too mentally intensive. It essentially only worked when it was run on a literal

the cognitive boosts he had received from his second cognitive growth stage and the breakthrough to Martial Apprentice, he was able to master a portion of it, but he still had some ways to go