The Martial Unity

"Winner; representative Fiona Roschem!"

"And there you have it folks! Representative Fion Roschem makes it to the third round as well! This brings us to an end to the second round. Be sure to be here at the Martial Colosseum same time tomorrow to catch it in time!"

The crowd cheered loudly in response.

Rui sighed as he left the viewing balcony along with squires Kyrie and Dylon, deep in thought.

The following matches of the third round were;

Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Rui Quarrier.

Mia Marnt vs Fiona Roschem.

The winners of those would go onto fight each other in the finals.

"Freshen up a bit." Squire Kyrie told him before parting ways. "We'll meet in an hour."

Rui nodded as he headed his own way.

He had a lot to think about.

His next opponent was Ian Nepomniachtchi. He definitely had a lot to think about.

He had already gathered two round worth of data on Ian. Not idea, but not bad, and definitely better than nothing.

prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would probably test his limits with

immediately fixed himself a tub bath, soaking in, relaxing as the warmth permeated his

Ian. A breathing technique specialist that generally fought by amplifying his

generally two traits that made him quite a formidable opponent. The first was that the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was incredibly high, matching and even surpassing dedicated Martial Artists to those

his parameters kept changing, making it incredibly tricky to fight him, far more so than any of the other contestants. One moment he was

create a single adapted fighting style, he needed to create multiple adapted fighting styles. Furthermore,

of the complete VOID algorithm, it wouldn't be a problem, but he couldn't. It was too difficult. He would need to analyze and memorize immense amounts of

simply too data-intensive in its entirety. That problem had not yet been solved in this life either, he had been able to mitigate the problem to a certain degree with his powerful mind, but

a way to overcome this barrier, otherwise he wouldn't be able to travel his Martial path for too

asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant

to hold back. So far, he had just barely managed to hold back Phantom Step,

fight Ian, bare minimum. The worst-case scenario was that he would end up using all his trump cards and still end up losing. If he could do it, he would likely to keep the Blink plus Stinger combo hidden until he fought

he met

hope for the

everchanging flexibility." Squire Kyrie had told him. "In a way, his fighting style is

also able to change to fight his opponent. Of course, he did this in a

the third round was ready to

match of the third round, we have representative Rui Quarrier and his Flowing Void Style representing the Hajin branch facing off against representative Ian Nepomniachtchi and his Breathing Mountain Style representing

crowd cheered loudly, hyped

simultaneously as they walked up

has come." Ian coldly stated. "I'll show you

wordlessly. He didn't care to

closed his eyes, emptying