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"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.

fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would

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

Ian. A breathing technique specialist

which he could amplify certain parameters by 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

just create a single adapted fighting style, he needed to create multiple adapted fighting styles. Furthermore, he needed a way to

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

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

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

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

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

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

met up with

and hope for the best." Squire Dylon

told him. "In a way, his fighting

nodded 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, only time would

day passed and the third

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 facing off against representative Ian Nepomniachtchi and his Breathing Mountain Style representing

hyped for this

they walked

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

him wordlessly. He didn't care to engage

closed his eyes, emptying