The Martial Unity

He planned to see how viable grounding the kinetic energy that he absorbed from his opponent's attack to get rid of it, the same way one did electricity, was. However, his initial failure wasn't an indication that the option was not viable. He just messed up the execution of the plan.

"Again."

Once again, she threw a solid jab at him. This time, he managed to absorb and channel more of it downwards than before.

SKRRRRR...

He skidded heavily, and deeply into the ground. By the time he stopped, he was a hundred meters away and waist-deep into the ground.

"That was better." Rui's eyes glinted with interest. "However, there might a problem I hadn't foreseen."

When he tried to direct his kinetic energy downwards, he was essentially trying to make himself move downwards instead of flying away like he normally did. He hoped that by directing the inherited momentum and kinetic energy down, he could dispel it into the land without any issue.

However, he now realizes that there were likely issues with that plan as well. When he directed his inherited momentum and kinetic energy downwards, it meant that his body was moving fast down, which meant that he was essentially crashing into the ground.

('That's why my body dug in so deeply.') Rui frowned as he looked at how below the surface he had dug into as he skidded across the ground.

Furthermore, this was just with partial success, if he did succeed in diverting all of his momentum down, how deep would he go?

('Shit.') Rui felt a pang of anxiety. ('This issue isn't light, it might make the project unviable if I don't find a solution.')

to divert one hundred percent

Casen asked as she gazed down the deep hole that Rui had created and

extended down more than a hundred meters. Yet Rui easily sky-walked out of it without any

Rui sighed. "Let's take a

that you're trying

the first time she had asked so straightforwardly. They had grown more

getting hurt." He turned towards the deep hole he made.

confused look at

rock," Rui explained. "Your

She nodded.

because I'm

passing the energy on to the ground?" She wondered. "If there's no difference between you striking the ground with a body or a fist,

want to strike without causing surface damage

as his

without causing surface-level

a technique

if I use Reverberating Lance to dispel all the energy to the ground?') Rui grew excited. ('This

impact of a collision deeper into the target, past the surface. This principle was the

was causing too much damage to the ground, the surface of the land when he tried to

kinetic energy to the ground with an impact, he used the Reverberating Lance technique to permeate the impact beyond the surface? If the energy was permeated deeper into the land through vibrations

Reverberating Lance allowed Rui to hurt his opponent on the inside without necessarily damaging the outside, he could pass on the inherited