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"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.

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

soaking in,

breathing technique specialist that generally fought by amplifying his parameters by using

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

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

a single adapted fighting style,

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 through

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

find a way to overcome this barrier, otherwise he wouldn't

thoughts. They weren't relevant to the issue

to hold back. So far, he

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 fought

passed, eventually he met up with

for the best." Squire Dylon

Kyrie had told

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

and the third round was

the third round, ladies and gentlemen!" The commentator welcomed. "In the first match of the third round, we have representative Rui Quarrier

crowd cheered loudly, hyped for this

the arena simultaneously as they walked up towards each

has come." Ian coldly stated. "I'll show

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

his eyes, emptying