The Martial Unity

The Roschem Manor welcomed Rui as a guest and he was given his own guest room to stay at. This was a luxury beyond Rui's expectations. Fiona chattered with him a lot as they waited for the commencement of the mission.

He'd learned a lot more about Fiona by that point. She was a grade-ten Martial Apprentice, even after the update of the Martial Artist grade system. Which meant her prowess was the real deal.

"By the way." She said at one point. "Do you want to spar?"

Rui's eyes lit up in interest as he considered her offer.

"Sure." He nodded. He had considered the same thing, but he wasn't sure if it was wise to challenge her in her own home after she had invited him. "I've been wanting a rematch for more than a while."

"Alright." She grinned. "Let's get started then."

She took him to a sparring facility inside the Roschem Residence., making him sigh at how rich and loaded her family was. He had visited the Arrancar Manor before and had seen something similar there as well, but that was more than three years ago. Back then he lacked the contextual understanding as to how ridiculous it was, unlike his current self.

"This is meant to withstand the power of Martial Apprentices." She told him. "We can go all out here without a worry."

"Honestly..." Rui scratched his head. "It's gonna need to do more than just withstand the power of Martial Apprentices for us to truly be unworried."

She smiled at those words. "Don't worry, we'll be fine."

"Alright, if you say so." Rui shrugged.

One of the

and Rui took neutral stances against each other. They were both all-rounders, it was one of the reasons Rui wanted to face her. She was

to exercise his

heavy as

"Begin!"

WHOOSH

lashed out as she crossed the distance between them in the briefest instance. She didn't hesitate to launch a barrage of powerful yet swift attacks. She had a much better understanding of his Martial Art since the last time they fought. She knew that he grew

adapt and evolve to his opponent with accurately timed and placed movements with high

her surprise, overwhelming him

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH

every single one of

realized. It was as though his brain was simply functioning faster than what was possible in the Apprentice Realm. He reached with almost no delay, in

of ridiculous reactions after he did his so-called adaptive evolution thingy. But she was pretty sure

And she was right.

predictive model of her. What she was facing was just the raw battle cognition upgrade that he had gained from the Mindmirror symbiote brain. His reactions and reflexes had all improved significantly thanks to programming the

Despite possessing greater movement speed than Rui, she simply

she was far from

CLAP!

that disoriented Rui on the

at a frequency below the audible range of the human ears. Greater amounts of this frequency

that generated high-density infrasonic sound that would disorient the