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.

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

immediately fixed himself a tub bath, soaking

A breathing technique specialist that generally fought by amplifying his parameters by using

that the degree to which he could amplify certain

was the fact that his parameters kept changing, 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

he countered Rui extremely hard 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

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

viable fighting style in his previous life. It was simply too data-intensive in its entirety. That problem had not yet

otherwise he wouldn't be able to travel his Martial path

putting asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant to

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

certain he would need the Phantom Step to 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

he met up

you best and hope for

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

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

the day passed and the third round was ready to

commentator welcomed. "In the first match of the third round, we have representative Rui Quarrier

crowd cheered loudly, hyped for this

as they walked up towards

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

at him wordlessly. He didn't care to engage in

his