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.

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

bath, soaking in, relaxing as the warmth permeated

Ian. A breathing technique

was that the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was incredibly high, matching and even surpassing dedicated Martial Artists to

more so than any of the other contestants. One

single adapted fighting style, he needed to create multiple adapted fighting styles. Furthermore, he needed a way to account for the rapid

was able to use the higher-end pattern recognition systems of the complete VOID algorithm, it wouldn't be a problem, but he couldn't. It

life. It was simply too data-intensive in its entirety. That problem had not yet been solved in this life either, he had been

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

head, putting asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant to the issue

wasn't sure about was whether he had the leeway to hold back. So far, he had just barely managed to hold back Phantom Step, Blink and

was that he would end up using all his trump cards and still end up

eventually he met

for the

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

nodded at those words. He agreed. Ian was also able to change to fight his opponent. Of course, he did

the day passed and the third

have representative Rui Quarrier and his Flowing Void Style representing the Hajin

crowd cheered loudly, hyped

as they

coldly stated. "I'll

at him wordlessly. He didn't care to engage

he closed his eyes,