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

fixed himself a tub bath, soaking in, relaxing as

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

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

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

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

higher-end pattern recognition systems of the complete VOID algorithm, it wouldn't be a problem, but he couldn't. It was too difficult.

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 to a

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

head, putting asides such nebulous thoughts.

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

all his trump cards and still end up losing. If he could do it, he would likely to keep the

passed, eventually he met

you best and hope for the

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

opponent. Of course, he did this in a different way than Rui did,

and the third round

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

cheered loudly, hyped for this

they walked up towards

coldly

at him wordlessly. He didn't care to

he closed his eyes,