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.

feel a smirk come on his face at the prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would probably test

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

A breathing technique specialist that generally fought by amplifying his parameters

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

making it incredibly tricky to fight him, far more so than any of the other contestants. One

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 a way to account for the rapid shifts and changes

complete VOID algorithm, it wouldn't be a problem, but he couldn't. It was

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 either, he had been able to mitigate the problem to a certain degree with his powerful mind, but that was not good

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

asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't

hold back. So far, he had just

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 hidden until he fought

met

best and hope for

Squire Kyrie had told him. "In a way, his

his opponent. Of course, he did this in a different way than Rui did, only time would tell who did it

the day passed and the third round

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

cheered loudly, hyped

they walked up towards each other, never breaking

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

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

he closed his eyes,