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.

of fighting him. Ian was

tub bath, soaking in, relaxing as the warmth permeated

A breathing technique specialist that generally fought by

which he could amplify certain parameters by was incredibly high, matching

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 moment 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

If he was 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

in its entirety. That problem had not yet been solved in this life either, he had been able to mitigate the problem

otherwise he wouldn't be able to travel his Martial path for

asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant to

thing he wasn't sure about was whether he had the leeway to hold back. So far, he had just barely managed to

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 losing. If

eventually he met up with

do you best and hope for the best." Squire Dylon told

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

course, he did this in a

the third round

Quarrier and his Flowing Void Style representing the Hajin branch facing off against representative Ian Nepomniachtchi and

crowd cheered loudly, hyped for

as they walked

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

him wordlessly. He didn't care

he closed his eyes, emptying his