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 "It's been two years, the information we have is extremely outdated.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

another 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 them. He wondered Ferlicia

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

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

a nerve striking Martial Artist.

nerve striking Martial

vibrations." Fae said, earning

huh?" He said with interest. "I'll have to look further into that,

went on to divulge everything they

the end, it didn't amount to much. However, what little

single one of them

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

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

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

deviants

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

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

the VOID algorithm was not adapted to Gaea-based Martial Art yet, making it less affective. Rui had already long recognized this shortcoming, but he had yet to overcome it, though he had

more

solutions for such almost magical Martial Art techniques? IT was truly confounding problem. Furthermore, it wasn't

were still entirely useful, it still became quite difficult to use the secondary portions of the algorithm. Then there was

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

from his second cognitive growth stage and the breakthrough to Martial Apprentice, he was able to master a portion of it, but