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

evaded

BOOM!

path of a drop kick that cracked the ground Rui was upon

colosseum was absorbed into

that they were witnessing the decisive

the

WHOOSH

BAM!

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

snarled in pain as he crouched clasping

BAM!

out a flurry of wild attacks, but his condition had deteriorated too much, he was barely able to use

POW!

uppercut to the jaw pushed his blunt

THUD

to the ground as he bled out,

Quarrier!" The referee

moment, nothing

crowd erupted in cheers

he managed to overcome one of the favourites with a stunning victory! He moves onto the finals of

He threw a deep look at Ian, who was being treated. He did not respect his character, but he respected his power,

the

boy." Squire Dylon smirked, throwing

or lose this is an achievement you have every right to take pride

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

when people were blunt in such circumstances, Dylon even managed to be funny about it. Though he

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

cheers as the atmosphere lit up

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