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.

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

soaking in, relaxing as the

technique specialist that

degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was

incredibly tricky to fight him, far more so than any of the other contestants. One moment he was a speedster, the

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 style, he needed to create

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 of data in the middle of the fight and process them

main reason the VOID algorithm was not a viable fighting style in his previous life. 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 mitigate the problem to a certain degree with his powerful mind, but that was not

he wouldn't be able to travel his Martial path for

nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant to the

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

Ian, bare minimum. The worst-case scenario was that he would end up using all his trump cards and

met

hope for the best."

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

those words. He agreed. Ian was also able to change to fight his opponent. Of course, he did

day passed and the third round

and gentlemen!" The commentator welcomed. "In the first match of the third round, we have representative Rui Quarrier and his Flowing Void Style representing the Hajin branch facing off against representative

loudly, hyped for this anticipated

they walked up towards

Ian coldly stated. "I'll show

him wordlessly. He didn't care to engage in a juvenile exchange of

closed his eyes, emptying his