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 and

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

technique specialist that generally fought

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

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

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 adapted fighting styles.

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 was too difficult. He would need to analyze and memorize immense amounts of data in the middle of the fight and process them through the VOID

its entirety. That problem had not yet been solved in this life either, he had been able to mitigate

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

nebulous thoughts. They

the leeway to hold back. So far, he had just barely managed to hold back Phantom Step, Blink and

would end up using all his trump cards and still end up losing. If

he met up with his

best and hope for the

told him. "In a way, his fighting style is not too

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 would tell who did

the day passed and the third round was ready

third round, ladies and gentlemen!" The commentator welcomed. "In the first match of the third round, we have representative Rui Quarrier and his Flowing Void Style representing the Hajin branch

hyped for this anticipated

the arena simultaneously as they walked up towards each other, never

promised time has come." Ian coldly stated.

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

his eyes, emptying his