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.

a smirk come on his face at the prospect of fighting him. Ian was incredibly strong, Rui would probably test his

fixed himself a tub bath, soaking in, relaxing as the warmth permeated

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

the degree to which he could amplify certain parameters by was incredibly high, matching and even surpassing dedicated Martial Artists to those

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

a single adapted fighting style, he needed to create multiple adapted fighting styles. Furthermore, he needed

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

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

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

putting asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't

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

minimum. The worst-case scenario was that he would end up using all his trump cards and still

met up with his

best and hope for

told him. "In a way, his fighting style is not too

agreed. Ian was also able to change to fight his opponent. Of course, he did this in a different way than Rui did, only

passed and the third

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 and his Breathing Mountain Style representing the

crowd cheered loudly, hyped for

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

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

care to engage in a juvenile exchange

closed his eyes, emptying