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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.

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

tub bath, soaking in, relaxing as the

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

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

the other contestants.

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 rapid shifts and

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 analyze and memorize immense amounts of data in the middle of the fight

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 to a certain degree with

barrier, otherwise he

his head, putting asides such nebulous thoughts. They weren't relevant to the issue at

sure about was whether he had the leeway to hold back. So far, he had just barely managed to hold back Phantom Step, Blink and the

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

passed, eventually he met up with

you best and hope for the best." Squire Dylon

be wary of his everchanging flexibility." Squire Kyrie had told him.

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

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

cheered loudly, hyped for this

arena simultaneously as they walked up towards each

coldly

him wordlessly. He didn't care to engage in a juvenile

closed his