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.

of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would probably test his limits with his ability

soaking in, relaxing as the warmth

had on Ian. A breathing technique specialist that generally fought by amplifying his parameters by using specific

to which he could amplify certain parameters by was incredibly high, matching

than any of the other contestants. One moment he was a speedster, the next moment he could be an offensive striker, the

that he was ever-changing meant that Rui couldn't just create a single adapted fighting style,

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 through the VOID

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 good enough by

this barrier, otherwise he wouldn't be able to travel his Martial path for

thoughts. They weren't

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

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

he met up

you best and hope for the

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

Of course,

the day passed and the third round was

Rui Quarrier and his Flowing Void Style representing the Hajin branch facing off against representative Ian Nepomniachtchi and his Breathing

loudly, hyped for

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

come." Ian coldly stated. "I'll show you your

him wordlessly. He didn't care to

his eyes,