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.

prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would probably test

tub bath, soaking in, relaxing

through all the information he had on Ian. A breathing technique specialist that generally fought

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

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 could be an offensive striker, the next moment he could be

adapted fighting style, he needed to create multiple adapted fighting styles. Furthermore, he needed a way to account for the

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 fight and process them through the

simply too data-intensive in its entirety. That problem had not yet been solved in this life either, he had

he wouldn't be able to travel his

putting asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't

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

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

met up with

for the best." Squire Dylon

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

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,

the day passed and the third round was

the third round, we have representative Rui Quarrier and his Flowing Void Style representing the Hajin branch facing off against representative Ian Nepomniachtchi and

loudly, hyped

and Ian entered the arena simultaneously as they walked up towards each other, never breaking

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

care

he closed his eyes, emptying