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.

of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would

immediately fixed himself a tub bath, soaking in,

technique specialist that generally fought by amplifying

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

making it incredibly tricky to fight him, far more so than any of the other contestants. One moment he was a speedster, the next moment he could be an offensive striker, the next moment he could be a defensive

a single adapted fighting style, he needed to create

problem, but he couldn't. It was too difficult. He would need to analyze and memorize immense amounts of data in the middle

reason the VOID algorithm was not a viable fighting style in his previous life. It was 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

overcome this barrier, otherwise he wouldn't be able to travel his Martial

asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant

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

all his trump cards and still end up losing. If he could do it, he would likely to

passed, eventually he met up with

for the best." Squire

flexibility." Squire Kyrie had told him. "In a way,

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

and the third round

first 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

hyped for this

they walked

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

at him wordlessly. He didn't care

his eyes,