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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.

him. Ian was

immediately fixed himself a tub bath, soaking

had on Ian. A breathing technique specialist that generally fought by amplifying his

opponent. The first was that the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was incredibly high, matching and even surpassing dedicated Martial

of the other

way, 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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

eventually he met

and hope for the best." Squire

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

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

and the third round was

round, ladies and gentlemen!" The commentator welcomed. "In the first match of the third round, we have representative Rui Quarrier

crowd cheered loudly, hyped for this

simultaneously as they walked

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

He didn't care to engage in a juvenile exchange

closed his