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.

Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would probably test

immediately fixed himself a tub bath, soaking in, relaxing

A breathing technique specialist that generally fought

two traits that made him quite a formidable opponent. The first was that the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was incredibly high, matching and even surpassing dedicated Martial Artists to

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

a way, he countered Rui extremely hard in a way. The fact that he was ever-changing meant that Rui couldn't just create a single adapted fighting

sighed. 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 too difficult. He

his previous life. It was simply too data-intensive in its entirety. That problem had not yet been solved

overcome this barrier, otherwise he wouldn't be able

his head, putting asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant to the issue at

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

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

passed, eventually he met up with his

hope for the

Kyrie had told him. "In

Ian was also able to change to fight his opponent. Of course, he did this in a different way than Rui did,

passed and the

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

cheered loudly, hyped for this anticipated

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

come." Ian coldly stated. "I'll show you your

He didn't care to engage in a juvenile exchange

he closed his