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.

the prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong,

tub bath, soaking in, relaxing as the

breathing technique specialist that generally fought by amplifying

degree to which he could amplify certain

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

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

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

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

overcome this barrier, otherwise he wouldn't be

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

to hold back. So far, he had just barely managed to hold back Phantom Step, Blink

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

met

for the best." Squire

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

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

day passed and the third round was

The commentator welcomed. "In the first match of the third round, we have representative Rui Quarrier and his Flowing

loudly, hyped for this

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

has come." Ian coldly

didn't care to engage in a

his eyes,