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

BOOM!

spun out of the path of a drop kick that

entire colosseum was absorbed

were witnessing the decisive part of the

yet, the clinch

WHOOSH

BAM!

Rui sneaked past his guard, launching a FLowing Canon

snarled in pain as he crouched clasping

BAM!

out a flurry of wild attacks, but his condition had

POW!

simple uppercut to the jaw pushed

THUD

ground as he bled out,

Rui Quarrier!" The referee

a moment, nothing

erupted

Quarrier! Against all odds he managed to overcome one of the favourites with a

Ian, who was being treated. He did not respect his character, but he respected his power, his perseverance and his determination. He never

the

my boy." Squire Dylon smirked, throwing him

managed to reach the finals, win or lose this is an achievement you have every

He was relatively certain she though he had a high chance of losing

in such circumstances, Dylon even managed to be funny about it. Though he did appreciate

final fight of the third-round folks." the commentator announced. "One on hand, we have representative Mia Marnt and her Echo Blast Style representing the Fellen branch. On the other we have representative Fiona Roschem representing

crowd erupted in cheers as

representatives entered the arena, facing each other. Rui could merely be surprised at the contrast between the two representatives. Mia was in her early twenties while