The Martial Unity

"I think... we might not die today." The head researcher shook his head.

Subject SQ007 had been woken up, briefed and dispatched. There was a set of loud terrifying explosions later before silence reigned again.

The surviving researchers were too terrified to leave the confined of their little hideout, but they had begun to suspect that perhaps the job was done.

After all, she was a Martial Squire. There was no way she would lose to Martial Apprentices. The researchers were well aware of her shortcomings and drawbacks. She did not possess a single Squire-level Martial Art technique, only the Apprentice-level techniques that were no longer compatible with her. Furthermore, she had only very recently completed her breakthrough and wasn't too familiar with the power of a Martial Squire.

Still.

She was a Martial Squire.

There was no way she would not win easily.

Right?

"Not unless there's an extraordinary grade-ten Martial Apprentice with an unbelievable Martial Art..." He pondered, before shaking his head.

There was no way that could happen.

Suddenly;

RUMBLE!

"Woah!"

The very facility began shaking as the researchers fell to the ground losing their balance, scrambling fear.

"What is happening?!"

On the other end of the facility, a horrifying conflict had commenced.

BOOM!

WHOOSH

She had crossed the distance between her and Rui in the smallest of instances. Her body twisted as she generated unprecedented power into an attack.

The very air shivered in fear as she launched a devastating attack.

Yet, to her surprise;

WHOOSH

Rui managed to evade her attack.

A combination of prediction based on center of gravity and distance analysis, Primordial Instinct, four maneuvering techniques and one breathing technique just barely allowed him to avoid the attack cleanly.

Yet, she wasn't done.

BAM!

kick swung at

BOOM!

grimaced as he skidded backwards, barely managing to guard in time. She immediately lashed out after him, swinging yet another

POW!

invisible attack landed on her face, affecting her fragile

had tried to throw

the Void Step technique. Yet before she could even land

BAM!

had caught up, landing a

Fae and Hever immediately arrived, trying to prevent her from focusing

Artists were clear on one thing; Rui was the key to the

he was clearly the strongest among them. That was true, certainly, yet the Martial Apprentices knew something about him that she

grew stronger the longer a fight

access to, the more accurate and precise the predictive model was. The

happened, they needed to prolong the battle for as long as possible and ensure Rui was as good

immense amount of faith in

WHOOSH

barely managed to avoid yet another attack, yet he

Squire lashed out to exploit the opportunity, aiming to kill him with a

Yet;

POW!

BAM!

just barely managed to intervene in time, launching powerful and

blocked both of them,

sent shivers down their

away, yet before she could even turn back to

BAM!!!

landed

had just barely managed to bruise her flesh,

CLASP

memory activated as it furiously executed the improved Meteor Swing

BOOM!!

facility shook as he did his best to swing the

"Insignificant."

her voice shook him

She was unharmed.

BAM!!

as a swift kick propelled him

she lashed out at her.

CLASP

caught

WOBBLE

stumbled as Rui activated Flow Flux at the last

WHOOSH

threw missed Fae due to Rui's

more fragile than it normally would be because she wasn't accustomed to it. She had not developed the muscle memory of active balance maintenance for her new body. Thus,

charged him, looking for a takedown. She