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.

he couldn't help but feel a smirk come on his face at the prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly

bath, soaking in, relaxing as the

Ian. A breathing technique specialist

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

fact that his parameters kept changing, making it incredibly tricky to fight him, far more so than any of the other contestants. One moment he was a speedster,

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 would need to analyze and memorize immense amounts

That problem had not yet been solved

to overcome this barrier, otherwise he wouldn't be

shook his head, putting asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant to

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

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

he met up

for

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

to change to fight his opponent. Of course, he did this in

passed and the third round

first match of the third round, we have representative Rui Quarrier and his Flowing Void Style representing the

crowd cheered loudly, hyped for this anticipated

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

coldly stated. "I'll

him wordlessly. He didn't care to engage in

closed his eyes, emptying