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.

absurd, not yet. Furthermore, Surman's specialty was mental techniques, so this was some kind of

images of Surman he saw were identical, their

he realized what

meaning the visual input they supplied to the brain were different. The reason people had a singular vision despite two eyes was because the

Marliaks. The strange movements that Surman had performed shortly before his vision had

and other sensory input could affect the brain and mind in various ways. He also suspected that this was the principle

WHOOSH

take advantage of Rui's disorientation, yet

WHAM!

swift kick. Surman frowned as landed back, realizing Rui was mentally

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 was employing anti-mental

body moved and contorted in bizarre

he was doing. He went for a swing when he suddenly froze. A sharp sense of

nothing had physically

he suddenly

POW POW POW

flurry of strikes. He began some

to defend

induce pain?')

think such a thing

felt his mind blurring as Surman struck his temple before performing some

Rui had begun bending and morphing, more and more so by the

my

BAM!

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

other hand was still

And excited!

understood Martial Art, some new

the sense of pain, spatial awareness and attention remotely and continuously with almost

It was extremely overpowered.