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.

come on his face at the prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would

immediately fixed himself a tub bath, soaking

technique specialist that generally fought

that made 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

second was the fact that his parameters kept changing, making it incredibly tricky to fight him, far more so than any of the other

that he was ever-changing meant that Rui couldn't just create a single adapted

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

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

head, putting asides such nebulous thoughts. They

whether he had the leeway to hold back. So far, he had

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

passed, eventually he met

and hope for the best." Squire

of his everchanging flexibility." Squire Kyrie had told him. "In a way, his fighting style is not too

able to change to fight his opponent. Of course, he did this

passed and the

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 facing off against representative Ian Nepomniachtchi and his Breathing Mountain

hyped

arena simultaneously as they walked up towards each other,

time has come." Ian coldly stated.

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

he closed his eyes,