The Martial Unity

Everything had patterns. Everything was made up of patterns.

People, animals, plants, rocks, dirt, all of them had patterns in their very being, one way or another. Whether it was behavioral, psychological, cellular or even molecular and atomic.

Even the universe itself had patterns. These were codified in the laws of physics.

Martial Artists were no different.

The pattern recognition systems of the VOID algorithm collected data on the movements of the opponent of the user, organized them into an ordered data set and then conducted a statistical analysis on them to create a predictive model of the movements of the opponent based on the data gathered.

This predictive model allowed the user to predict the movements of their opponent based on certain parameters such as; position, center of gravity, distance, speed and acceleration. The greater the amount of data collected, the more accurate and precise the predictions of the predictive model were.

However, that was only half the work. After all, the VOID algorithm was an algorithm to adapt and evolve to your opponent, not an algorithm to merely predict your opponent.

Once the predictive model was completed, the user would input the predictions into the adaptive evolution model of the VOID algorithm that would output the move needed to counter the inputted move. The adaptive evolution model was created after many years of empirical research by Rui on what the best counter to every move was. It outputted the best counter for every move.

For example, the objectively best counter to a crouching sweeping kick was a flying knee kick. A flying knee kick cleanly would avoid the sweeping kick since the user jumped, while the knee kick would land perfectly into the face of the crouched person that was executing the sweeping kick.

If one inputted the crouching sweeping kick into the adaptive evolution model, it would output the best counter to the inputted move; the flying knee kick.

Thus, pattern recognition systems of the VOID algorithm had the user predict the movements of their opponents using the predictive model, then they would figure out the best counter to the predicted moves by inputting those predicted moves into the adaptive evolution model. The adaptive evolution model would output the counter to the predicted move, and then the user would execute said counter moves, once the prediction came true.

This allowed the user to fight in a manner that was completely adapted and evolved to their opponent. Such was the prowess of the VOID algorithm, yet the difficulty of executing this was inhuman. Which was why Rui had failed to make it viable in his previous life.

'In his previous life', being the key phrase.

He grinned with excitement.

He was succeeding!

he had experienced

His dream was possible!

the first sip of water after days of being

through his body. ('I can do

POW!

his

movements had suddenly become clumsy despite being

as he retreated. ('...Everyone has a plan until they get punched in

be true. Of course, Rui had momentarily forgotten this because no one

the first person to get this far with

of the sheer

WHOOSH

as he simultaneously launched an upper cut that perfectly exploited the gap in her defense created by the

Yet;

WHOOSH

She avoided it cleanly.

He wasn't surprised.

but her reflexes were much harder to limit, reflexes were subconscious and she could not consciously reduce

she was holding back, they were still there. Rui was fighting against

And he wasn't losing.

Kyrie." Rui said to her. "Please use as much power as is needed to defeat me. There is no point in holding back for my sake if you cannot force me to

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