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.

fighting him. Ian was incredibly

soaking in, relaxing as the warmth permeated

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

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

second was the 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, the next moment he could be an offensive striker,

was ever-changing meant that Rui couldn't just create a single adapted fighting style, he needed to create multiple adapted fighting styles. Furthermore, he needed a way to account for the rapid

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

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

way to overcome this barrier, otherwise he wouldn't be able to travel his

asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant to the issue at

to hold back. So far, he had just

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.

met up with his

you best and hope for the best." Squire Dylon

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

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

day passed and the third round was

to 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 representing the Hajin branch facing

loudly, hyped

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

coldly stated. "I'll show you your

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

closed his eyes, emptying his