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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.

the prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would probably test his limits with his ability and Martial Art in

fixed himself a tub bath, soaking

on Ian. A breathing technique specialist

made him quite a formidable opponent. The first was that the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was

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

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

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

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 to a certain degree with his powerful mind, but that was not good

this barrier, otherwise he

head, putting asides such nebulous thoughts. They

was whether he had the leeway to hold back. So

scenario was that he would end up using all his trump cards and still end up losing. If he could do it,

eventually he met up with his

best and hope for the best." Squire

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

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

the day passed 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 and his Flowing Void Style representing the Hajin branch facing off against representative Ian Nepomniachtchi

loudly, hyped

they walked up towards each other, never breaking

come." Ian coldly stated. "I'll

wordlessly. He didn't care

he closed his eyes,