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.

come on his face at the prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would probably test his limits with his ability and Martial Art

soaking in, relaxing as the warmth permeated

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

first was that the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was

more so than any of the other contestants. One moment he was a speedster,

that he was ever-changing meant that Rui couldn't just create a single adapted fighting style,

couldn't. It was too difficult. He would need to analyze and memorize immense amounts of data in the middle

problem had not yet been solved in this life either, he had been able to mitigate the problem to a certain

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

such nebulous thoughts.

to hold back. So far,

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 he could do it, he would likely to keep the Blink plus Stinger combo

eventually he met up

for the best."

need to be wary of his everchanging flexibility." Squire Kyrie had told

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 third round

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

hyped for this

simultaneously as they walked

coldly

stared at him wordlessly. He didn't care to engage in a juvenile

closed his eyes, emptying