The Martial Unity

Chapter 292

Rui gained a more thorough understanding of Hafbor's formidability through their exchanges. The man was probably the best defense-oriented Martial Artist he had come across. Arjun was strong as well, but his Martial Art was mostly passive, since his Martial Path was body conditioning.

Rui was of the opinion that well-balanced defenses such as Hafbor's were the hardest to deal with.

Still, one good thing about the fight was that Rui could be as aggressive as he wanted. Hafbor's offensive and counter-offensive initiative was not all that threatening to Rui. In most cases, he was too slow to land a clean strike on Rui, and even if he weren't his offense was not impressive. It wasn't weak, either, Rui couldn't withstand it with zero damage, but it would truly take a long time before the damage could actually hinder Rui.

Thus, Rui increasingly hit the pedal harder as he began pushing his maneuvering to the max. Hafbor increasingly grew strained as it became more and more difficult to redirect all of Rui's attacks. He began relying more on his passive defense, his conditioning, than his redirection.

Although redirection was not physically taxing, it was mentally taxing. Although Hafbor was good at it, estimating the correct timing and placement for applying force to correctly redirect strikes away was difficult. This was especially true for speedy motions like the one Rui was exhibiting. This was the adapted style that Rui had created with the VOID algorithm.

POW POW POW

Rui launched a powerful flurry of attacks that Hafbor redirected smoothly. Suddenly, Rui lashed out an attack for his groin, Hafbor shifted.

Yet;

WHOOSH

It was a feint.

('Now!')

PEW!

right toe cut through the

toe plunged into his right

of surprise

bearings as he entered a mild state

blink. The problem with the Blink technique was that Rui had no control over when they occurred. Furthermore, Hafbor was very careful, his eyes

of luck for him to pull off a successful Blink-plus-Stinger combination. He needed to divert Hafbor's guard and

Rui to do was simply creating opportunities that he could exploit and hope

happened. And Rui didn't hesitate to abuse the opening and inflict a critical injury

off-guard by the Blink. Yet, with half

had also managed to cripple his active defense because perception was necessary for

powerful strikes. With one

Eventually, Hafbor collapsed.

cried. "Apprentice Falken is

round of applause erupted

of the women around Nartha said. "Who

a real

like you caught a big

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