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.

on his face at the prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would

tub bath, soaking in, relaxing as the warmth

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

the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was incredibly high, matching and even surpassing dedicated Martial Artists to

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

just create a single adapted fighting style, he needed to create

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

had not yet been solved in this

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

asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant

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

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 hidden until he

passed, eventually he met up with

hope for the best." Squire Dylon told

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

change to fight his opponent. Of course,

the day passed and the third round was ready to

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

hyped

and Ian entered the arena simultaneously as they walked

coldly stated. "I'll show

care to engage in a juvenile

he closed his eyes, emptying his