The Martial Unity

"Take your stances." The referee instructed.

Surman Marliak took a strange stance. He lifted his left leg, positioning his left foot at right knee. One arm was raised over his head while the other was raised towards Rui.

Rui wasn't sure what to make of this stance. It looked strange and silly, but the fact that Rui didn't understand the significance and reason for it simply meant his understanding of mental techniques was limited. He had tried to do some research, but he was limited.

In the face of the unknown, he simply chose a simple neutral stance while activating pushing his sensory techniques to their limit.

"Begin!" The supervisor declared!

WHOOSH

Surman Marliak disappeared in everyone's eye, drawing a gasp from the crowd.

POW

He appeared next to Rui throwing a powerful strike, but to his surprise Rui had managed to block him easily.

POW!

Surman retreated in surprise. He didn't expect his misdirection to fail so spectacularly. What he didn't know was that Rui was able to see through misdirection far greater than what he had used. After all, Rui had been able to detect Kane's position despite the Void Step technique; A technique with grade ten potency and difficulty.

Rui chased after him, refusing to let him go too easily. Surman paused at the sight, taking his strange stance yet again, he moved his arms legs in slow wavy patterns even as Rui approached him. It was then, Rui's eyes flew wide open as he suddenly Surman Marliak's figure cloned into two!

Suddenly he saw two Surman Marliaks!

What was this sorcery?

POW!

Both Surman Marliaks threw a strike, pushing him back.

was no way the clone was real, Martial Art was not that absurd, not yet. Furthermore, Surman's specialty was mental techniques, so this was some kind of trick that

of Surman he saw were identical, their positioning,

he realized what was

visual input they supplied to the brain were different. The reason people had a singular vision despite two eyes was because the brain merged those two images. Diplopia was the condition of having double images due to the brain not fusing

that Surman had performed shortly before his vision had

knew that vision and other sensory input could affect the brain and mind in various ways. He also suspected that

WHOOSH

dashed at him, hoping to take advantage of Rui's disorientation, yet once

WHAM!

away with a swift kick. Surman frowned as

Instinct allowed Rui to fight almost unperturbed despite his disorientation. Rui's mental fortitude

moved and contorted in bizarre ways bewitching the eyes of

he was doing. He went for a swing when he suddenly froze. A sharp sense of pain rushed across his entire

nothing had

did he suddenly

POW POW POW

advantage of Rui's openings launching a flurry of

defend as he

pain?')

such a

Surman struck his temple before performing some more strange

begun bending and

my spatial

BAM!

Rui's openings to the very limit, trying to

other

And excited!

thought he understood Martial Art, some

Marliak had been the latest of them. A Martial Art who could affect the sense of pain, spatial awareness and attention remotely and continuously with almost no pre-conditions or

It was extremely overpowered.