The Martial Unity

BAM!

Rui's eyes flew wide open as Ian struck him with a more powerful blow than ever before. Rui skidded away as he gazed at Ian with a surprised expression. Why was he suddenly stronger than before despite the wound?

Ian had a furious expression on his face. "You bastard...!"

He coughed up a little blood.

('He's pushing himself to the absolute limit.') Rui realized. Ian was essentially pushing himself to his peak at the cost of accelerating the deterioration of his condition.

WHOOSH

Ian abused Lightning Breathing even as blood splurted out of his wound, to move faster than he ever had, reaching Rui in an instant.

BOOM!

Rui grimaced as an immensely powerful blow crashed against his guard. His body shook with the impact as he leapt back. Even the combination of his three defensive techniques weren't able to mitigate the impact.

Rui's senses heightened as he realized they had entered the final phase of the battle.

He abandoned all offense and shifted all of his focus on evasion and defense. Whatever happened, he could not afford to make a mistake! A single mistake was all Ian needed to turn the tables around for himself.

WHOOSH

Rui carefully evaded a strike with a feint as he immediately activated his maneuvering techniques to open up distance between them.

However, Ian was relentless.

"RAARGH!" he snarled as he shook the very ground with the sheer force he was accelerating towards with Rui with.

WHOOSH

he evaded yet another

BOOM!

drop kick

colosseum was absorbed into the

witnessing the decisive part

the clinch

WHOOSH

BAM!

into a feint as Rui sneaked past his guard, launching a FLowing Canon on his

Ian snarled in pain as he

BAM!

out a flurry of wild

POW!

pushed his blunt force trauma

THUD

ground

Rui Quarrier!" The

moment,

erupted in cheers and

you have it folks! The winner of this fight is representative Rui Quarrier! Against all odds he managed to overcome one of the favourites with

He did not respect his character, but he respected his power, his

left the arena

boy." Squire Dylon smirked, throwing him a thumbs

finals, win or lose this is an achievement you

was not blind to why she was saying that. He was relatively certain she though he had a high chance of

blunt in such circumstances, Dylon even managed to be

folks." the commentator announced. "One on hand, we have representative Mia Marnt and her Echo Blast Style representing the

cheers as the atmosphere lit up

the contrast between the two representatives. Mia was in her early twenties while Fiona was fifteen, like himself, furthermore she was short and petite for someone her age. It really did look like an adult was trying