The Martial Unity

He simply pulled the Martial Apprentice who was kicking down, launching himself as he somersaulted out of his position, replacing himself with him.

POW POW POW POW!

BAM!

The four Martial Apprentices who attacked him on land grimaced as they not only hilariously missed their target but also ended up hitting their teammates. The one Martial apprentice who launched a flying kick found himself standing where Rui was, while Rui was standing outside their circle.

Everyone looked at him with amazement. This is what he was capable of when he restricted and limited himself to the Apprentice Realm.

Team Gerard quickly gathered itself, regrouping before they came at him again, two maneuvering-oriented Martial Apprentices dashed out at him with tremendous speeds, launching swift and short barrages of jabs.

Rui never let his inherently high toughness do the job for him. He cleanly parried away every single strike with as little movement and effort as he could, just barely applying the necessary force to ensure that they don't connect with him properly. He considered constructing predictive models to try and minimize the effort he needed to expend to take them down, but he decided not to. That was far too overkill, they wouldn't even comprehend what happened to them and would gain the misunderstanding that all Martial Squires could replicate the feat. He did not want to give them an inaccurate view of the Squire realm.

('These two aren't bad.') Rui mused. ('But their top speed is much greater than their agility, creating unnecessarily high amounts of inertia, making it difficult for them to decelerate and reach zero. They're fast at their peak but they're not quick to switch.')

They were almost like trains. Bullet trains had a very high top speed, but these massive transportation vehicles took their time to reach their top speed and to get back to zero from top speed. Of course, this could be due to their Martial Art being highly centered around speed, but that didn't necessarily mean everything had to be sacrificed to obtain speed at all costs, everything was needed to create a viable Martial Artist.

He had already identified numerous shortcomings and flaws

WHOOSH

powerful blow from one of the Martial Apprentices,

CLASP

caught his leg, swinging him down to the

BAM!

The man grimaced.

the ground.') Rui smiled behind his mask, amused.

sensed a powerful wind projectile being

out

STEP

jumped, landing on the

gaped as Rui rode the

even balanced upon it like he was surfing a wave, which he

on the ground once the energy of the attack fizzled out. "That was

Apprentice who launched an airborne attack so that he wouldn't hurt them, yet the attack was

of foresight, something none of the other Martial Apprentices had

around him. ('If I chose to dodge instead of slam him to the ground, your attack

his attention to

four of them who had tried to dogpile him with attacks again,

CLASP

body holds, from behind while the two offense-oriented Martial Apprentices threw their most powerful strikes straight toward his

WHOOSH