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.

fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong,

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

through all the information he had on Ian. A breathing technique specialist that generally fought by amplifying his parameters by using specific

first was that the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters

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

in a way. The fact that he was ever-changing meant that Rui couldn't just create a single adapted fighting style, he needed to create multiple adapted fighting styles. Furthermore, he needed

he couldn't. It was too difficult. He would need to analyze and memorize immense amounts of data in the middle of the fight and process them through

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

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

thoughts.

hold back. So far,

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

met up

for the best." Squire Dylon told

everchanging flexibility." Squire Kyrie had told him.

words. He agreed. Ian was also able to change to fight his opponent. Of course, he did this in a different way than Rui did, only time

passed and the

the third round, we have representative Rui Quarrier and his

hyped for this

as they

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

wordlessly. He didn't care to engage

he closed his eyes, emptying his