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 "It's been two years, the information we have is extremely outdated.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

techniques. Yet another type of Martial Art Rui hadn't seen before. He had seen temperature-based techniques in the Apprentice library, of course, but

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

agreed. "Mia is a sound-based fighter, by the way. I don't know her personally but I've

a nerve striking Martial

nerve striking Martial

vibrations." Fae said,

have to look further into that,

went on to divulge everything they knew on

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

them was colourful

breathing, vibrations, nerves friction, sound and many

how could they possibly reach

five people in the Hajin Academy who all had a chance of being chosen

deviants

question was how well Rui would do

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

of these

Gaea-based Martial Art yet, making it less affective. Rui had already long recognized this shortcoming, but

the more he realized how difficult

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

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

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

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