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.

him. Ian was incredibly strong,

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

breathing technique specialist that generally fought by amplifying his parameters by

first was that the degree to which he

him, far more so than any of the other contestants. One moment he was a speedster, the next moment he could be an offensive

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 create multiple adapted fighting

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

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

needed to find a way to overcome this barrier, otherwise he wouldn't be

shook his head, putting asides such nebulous thoughts.

whether he had the leeway to hold back. So far, he had just barely managed to

all his trump cards and still end up losing. If he could

eventually he met

for

be wary of his everchanging flexibility." Squire Kyrie had told him. "In a way, his fighting style is not

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 tell who did

the day passed and the third round was ready

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

loudly, hyped for this anticipated

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

Ian coldly stated. "I'll show

didn't care to engage in a juvenile

his eyes, emptying