The Martial Unity

"Aaand we have a winner! Representative Ferlicia Ernand makes it to the second round after a spectacular victory against representative Askin Nodt! Onto our next fight. We have Representative Mia Marnt and her Echo Blast tyle representing ther Fellen branch. On the other hand, we have Representative Ana Mariane of the Hyulflum branch and her Belial Claw Style!"

The crowd cheered loudly as the two women walked into the arena, facing each other.

"Take your stances." The referee instructed.

Mia took a balanced stance, however her hands were positioned oddly close to her face. Rui wasn't entirely sure what to make of that.

He did, of course, recall some the bare basic information Fae had told him about her.

She wielded sound.

Rui wasn't sure what to make of that. But he had grown used to that feeling now. He had already long accepted that basically anything and everything could become a Martial Art in this world, that's just how things were.

Her opponent on the other hand was equally interesting. Fae and Kane didn't know much about her, but they said her Martial Art had something to do with wind.

That's right, wind. Rui had already given up on trying to understand.

Ana took a bizarre stance. She placed one foot ahead of the other and then placed her arms to her side with her palms facing the ground.

Rui shook his head. He genuinely had no idea what the fuck she was doing, but he assumed she did. He looked forward to seeing how both sides fought.

"Begin!" The supervisor commenced the fight.

Mia inhaled deeply, bring her hands to her mouth.

What came out of her mouth was not a shout.

But a roar.

couldn't see the attack, sound was invisible. But Primordial Instinct detected

eyes flew wide

shouting

avoided the attack not by moving

No.

to the air, reaching a good height to avoid the

Being midair made escaping impossible, Mia would simply target her

Mia didn't let go of the opportunity and sent more

WHOOSH

flash of shock for the second time in ten seconds

was flabbergasted as he saw

Kyrie frowned. "This shouldn't be possible at the Apprentice

the Apprentice Realm?" Rui turned, facing her in surprise. "What does that

she's using is known as Sky Walking. It works by kicking air down hard enough to stay hovering. Essentially an air version of swimming, in a way. Martial Apprentices are too weak to do this however, only Martial Squires and above can use it. Which

open. He glanced back at

being surprised over and over again in such a short timeframe. But the scene unfolding before his eyes

and Ana moved out of her aim ever so slightly

did not look like a battle between

From what he could tell, she was building an enormous amount of air and pressure and using that generate extremely intense sound waves focused in an incredibly small area. He figured she likely conditioned to a large degree

able to spam reasonably powerful attacks from quite range, giving her a

made countering them much harder than if they could be seen. This contributed to

they moved at the speed

her offensive speed surpassed all martial Apprentices. Martial Apprentices

Yet again, he