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 Rui wasn't quite

two images of Surman he saw were identical, their positioning, and their movements were all

eyes widened as he realized

to the brain were different. The reason people had a singular vision despite two eyes was because the brain merged those two images.

The strange movements that Surman had performed

various ways. He also suspected that this was the principle

WHOOSH

hoping to take

WHAM!

a swift kick. Surman frowned as landed back, realizing Rui was mentally remarkably resillient for him be this

of Rui's supernaturally powerful mind and the Primordial Instinct allowed Rui to fight almost unperturbed despite his disorientation. Rui's mental fortitude was quite remarkable, to the point that Surman suspected he

strange stances. His body moved and

a swing when he suddenly froze. A sharp sense of pain rushed across

had

did he suddenly feel

POW POW POW

Rui's openings launching a flurry of strikes. He began some more

to defend as he turtled

can induce pain?')

think such a thing was

his mind blurring as Surman struck his

begun bending

my spatial awareness

BAM!

exploited Rui's openings to the very limit, trying to end the

other hand

And excited!

some new technique came along and broke

the sense

It was extremely overpowered.