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.

but feel a smirk come on his face at the prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong,

soaking in, relaxing as the warmth permeated his

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

a formidable opponent. The first was that the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was incredibly high, matching and

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

a single adapted fighting style, he needed to create multiple adapted fighting styles. Furthermore, he needed a way to account for the rapid

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

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

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

his head, putting asides such nebulous thoughts.

thing he wasn't sure about was whether he had the leeway to hold back. So far, he had just barely managed to hold back Phantom Step,

the Phantom Step to fight Ian, bare minimum. The worst-case scenario was that he would end up using all his

passed, eventually he met up

and hope for the best." Squire Dylon told

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

was also able to change to fight his opponent. Of course,

and the third round

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

cheered loudly, hyped for

simultaneously as they

time has come." Ian coldly

care to

his