The Martial Unity

The Martial Games soon proceeded as Fernan was carried away. Rui was the new defending champion of the Martial Games and he sent challenger after challenger.

Yet, none of them prevailed.

One after the other, Rui overwhelmingly crushed them all with adapted styles that wrecked them in combat. The rest of the participating representative fighters weren't quite as deviant as Fernan was. The adaptive-evolution model was far more effective against them than it was against Fernan. His victories against them were smooth, clean and elegant unlike his messy battle against Fernan.

However, Rui had begun to notice something strange.

Every once in a while, some of his opponents would simply give up even when the fight wasn't quite over. Their bodies went limp as their eyes lost life as if someone had drained them of it. And he would win easily once they stopped resisting. They would collapse as if they no longer cared for anything.

Rui didn't understand what was happening. He only a found it a little strange because he experienced something similar with Vranil. But he simply shrugged, maybe they just knew went to stop?

There were Martial Artists that fought bitterly to the very end and gave Rui one hell of a run till the very end. Their eyes burned with determination and perseverance even as Rui knocked them out.

At the end of the day. He was still the defending champion and had defeated every single fighter who had participated.

All of the guests were shocked as they witnessed Rui upending the Martial Games!

"Winner; Apprentice Falken. He is the current undefeated reigning champion!" The butler announced. "There are no more challengers!"

The guests applauded loudly at Rui's performance. Suddenly, a voice boomed from the crowd.

"No, not quite."

Charles DiVilier smiled as he drew everybody's attention to him. "Normally, I don't participate as one of major hosts of the Martial Games. But today is a special day, an old champion has come back to reclaim his rightful title and has done so undefeated. It would be interesting is he was met with a challenger qualified to fight him."

Rui's eyebrow rose at those words.

"My representative fight will be participating today." He said.

silence overtook the guests, before they erupted in enthusiasm. They seemed familiar with

heavy presence

man was tall, his body was chiseled like he had been sculpted by hand. What surprised Rui was that the man was also masked, just

from Rui,

your stances."

man took a neutral stance, and Rui followed

anticipation

The arbiter commenced

eyes as the man appeared in front of him in an

BOOM!

in time. The sheer impact of the blow sent him

pressure crashed onto Rui as the man had already

WHOOSH

evade his strike narrowly as he

gritted his teeth.

VOID algorithm. Which meant it required time, which meant that he could not use it right off the bat. Which meant he was not at

POW POW POW!

through a combo of strikes, but the masked man casually

BAM!

Rui skidded away.

ensued was a dominant display of power. Just when the crowd thought Rui

WHOOSH

BAM!

a powerful Flowing

yet to his surprise, Rui calmly dealt with his attack

blow furiously as Rui began gaining perfect parity with the masked man. The crowd's eyes lit up in elation as they realized that Rui's

prediction model just in time. Confidence filled every cell in his body as went all-out trying to defeat his opponent. His opponent

opponent was extremely efficient. He was also a tricky and tactical fighter that impressed Rui. He didn't fight head-on like a brute but instead fought cleverly, making the best of