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 yet another strike from

BOOM!

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

colosseum was absorbed into

understood that they were witnessing the decisive

yet, the clinch came

WHOOSH

BAM!

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

Ian snarled in pain as he crouched clasping

BAM!

ignored his condition, lashing out a flurry of wild attacks, but his condition had deteriorated too much, he was barely

POW!

the jaw pushed his blunt force

THUD

collapsed to the ground as he bled

Rui Quarrier!" The referee

moment,

the crowd erupted

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

not respect his character, but he respected his power, his perseverance and his determination. He never gave up until the

left the

boy." Squire Dylon smirked,

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

she though he had a high chance

in such circumstances, Dylon even managed to be funny about it.

and her

crowd erupted in cheers as the atmosphere lit up

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