Ian's defensive breathing technique was incredibly strong by itself. Rui was sure that it was stronger than all three of his defensive techniques combined.
POW!
An incredibly swift blow slammed into Rui's guard. Rui gritted his teeth as he used Inner Divergence, Elastic Shift and Acute Edge to mitigate as much of the impact as he could.
WHOOSH
Rui cleanly dodged the next attack with a well-timed feint, throwing a swift lower kick.
POW!
Ian merely threw an arrogant look at him. As if trying to say the blow didn't hurt him at all. The worst part was that it was probably true.
('Okay, let's try something else.')
Rui opened up some space between them, leaping back. Yet Ian immediately pursued, shifting to Lightning Breathing to increase his speed.
Yet rather than trying to retreat faster, Rui immediately paused and rushed back at Ian.
BAM!
A powerful impact crashed into Ian as Rui threw his most powerful blow; a Flowing Canon boosted with Outer Convergence, Vital Pressure, Parallel Walk and Balanced Direction. The sheer momentum and power of this attack was the highest of all of his attacks.
Not even Ian could shrug it off. He turtled behind his guard, even skidding back a meter from the impact.
It looked great, but Rui knew that the attack wasn't truly meaningful. Sure, it probably hurt and bruised him a bit, but in the long run that meant nothing. He needed to defeat Ian, not just hurt him.
WHOOSH
WHOOSH
WHOOSH
was quite high, and he was confident of evading
fighting style that Rui had ever had to try and adapt to. The sheer
cleanly navigate the issue with an incredible amount of thoroughness
WHOOSH
POW POW POW!
a strike from him as he threw a
about Ian based on all the data at hand. Most of it was centered on how he employed the
Breathing when he was about to launch an attack and completely shifted to
BAM!
afford to be hit with too often. His defense was good, no doubt, but Ian was at t a level where he could hit above what Rui could consistently
adapting a complete style
POW POW POW!
He was almost adapting Rui in his own way. This was the problem with someone with such an
WHOOSH
avoiding a strike as he tried to
POW!
intercepted him with
bit, yet the
BAM!
powerful kick sent Rui
need for using atleast another
to wait, a trump card was
him launching a powerful
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