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.')

trying to divert one hundred percent of the inherited energy downwards, yet when he did

down the

hole extended down more than a hundred meters. Yet

Rui sighed. "Let's take

is it that you're trying to achieve with

grown more familiar with each other over five months. She felt

on my momentum to my surroundings without getting hurt." He turned towards the deep hole he made. "And without

threw a confused look

when you strike, say, a rock," Rui explained.

She nodded.

I'm effectively striking it with my body," Rui explained, before

ground?" She wondered. "If there's no difference between you striking the ground with a body or a fist, then doesn't that make it

of." Rui shrugged half-heartedly. "I want to strike without causing surface

as his

causing surface-level

a technique just like

ground?') Rui grew excited. ('This

to permeate the damage of the impact of a collision deeper into the target, past the surface. This principle was the same principle that was used in modern medicine back on Earth to deal with

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

impact, he used the Reverberating Lance technique to permeate the impact beyond the surface? If the energy was permeated deeper into the land

inside without necessarily damaging the outside, he could pass on the inherited kinetic energy of Project Bounce deeper into the land without necessarily digging through