The Martial Unity

Rui rode a wave of euphoria as he felt his Martial Art maturing, it was a feeling of unmistakable clarity. He lashed forward as he acted on the predictive models that he had created for each of the over the span of the fight while deriving the best counter to their impending actions with the adaptive evolution model.

WHOOSH

BAM!

He avoided a predicted low kick by leaping forward with a flying knee kick, striking his opponent's diaphragm with a powerful impact. It was especially worse because Reverberating Lance permeated the impact deeper into the body, shocking the diaphragm and impeding his opponent's breathing. The woman collapsed, writhing on the ground.

Six more Martial Apprentices to go.

WHOOSH

POW POW POW!

He evaded a roundhouse kick as he threw a combo of strikes at his opponent, disorienting him with the powerful impacts of his strikes permeating deeper.

The remaining two immediately ganged up on him.

BLINK

PEW!

He managed to land a Stinger on his opponent's neck veiled through a Blink. He immediately grimaced, retreating as he cradled his bleeding neck.

The final remaining close-range Martial Apprentice threw a swing that Rui saw coming from a mile away thanks to the predictive model.

CLASP

intercepted the swing with Flow Flux immediately, destabilizing balance and leaving him wide open

BAM!

violently, causing enough blunt-force trauma to cause the brain to shut down. Rui didn't bother trying to kill

launched multiple Tempestuous Ripples to block and neutralize as many of

it meant extended flexibility, wind attacks, launching land, or other sorts of

BOOM!!

Canon crashed into the necks

on

swiftly take

he had defeated all of them. All of the Martial Apprentices were part of the

All by himself.

of the entire world, he had forged himself a new feat. At some point in time, the mask he had put on had broken before he had even noticed. The various nations immediately verified his identity as they learned more about the foe that had foiled every response that had ever been thrown against him by any

their shock and anger at his feats,

entire large-scale

Or so they thought.

Mind Mask and Shadow Step to avoid gathering the attention of the many Martial Apprentices and potion users that were wrangling with each other

And soon he arrived.

immediately knelt on the

plan that he had proposed to

eyes, while

that flashed through his mind as he began gathering his concentration and focus like he had done so many times. Yet this time, they were especially important, they would be playing a very significant role in the upcoming plan. He knew that there was no way he would be able

as invincible, invulnerable, and omnipotent. He pictured himself embodying the very concept