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.

couldn't help but feel a smirk come on his face at the prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui

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

on Ian. A breathing technique specialist that generally

first was that the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was incredibly high, matching

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

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. Furthermore, he needed

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

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

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

nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant to the issue

So far,

absolutely 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

met

for

had told

at those 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,

the day passed and the third

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 Style representing the Farund

cheered loudly, hyped for

arena simultaneously as they walked up towards

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

care to engage

he closed his eyes,