The Martial Unity

She grew more serious as she threw swift yet powerful jabs. Her Martial Path was centered around agile momentum. She placed equal weight on speed and power, allowing her to land a great deal of solid strikes quite quickly. The reason she had chosen to accept this mission in the first place was that her Martial Path suited the needs of the mission quite well.

She was quite curious to see what Rui had actually accomplished after training with her for so long. She decided to use the entirety of her arsenal to test his current prowess.

POW POW POW

Rui intercepted all of the strikes with palms while effectively spamming Reverberating Lance with his back leg, while also pushing himself down every time she intercepted a strike.

Squire Casen twisted her core as she landed a devastating roundhouse kick.

CLASP

To her surprise, Rui managed to intercept and dispel the momentum that she had painstakingly gathered with the torque of her body.

RUMBLE

The very land shook under the sheer amount of power that Rui was permeating across its depths. Of course, this didn't even hamper either of the Martial Squires, the vibrations were occurring so slowly in their perception that it may as well have not been occurring at all.

As Rui put himself on max alert and focus to dispel the energy of all her attacks, he purposely avoided using the VOID algorithm to build a predictive model and adapt to her entire Martial Art. The point of this training, and of this particular exchange was to test how well he had mastered Project Bounce.

Bringing in the VOID algorithm would ruin that because it would take the burden off him and make it too easy to defend against her attacks. Even if he was imperfect with Project Bounce, the VOID algorithm was simply too powerful, he would be able to counter her so easily that he would not notice any imperfections in the master of the technique.

time being, he consciously

he verified that he was doing just fine as far as proficiency went, he would not hesitate to use it with the VOID algorithm. After all, using it with the VOID algorithm was how he would be fighting against

incredibly powerful his defense had no doubt grown

bones that the sheer amount of defensive prowess he would no doubt gain due to the

managed to reign

on the other hand, was incredibly impressed by his current prowess. ('It's like I'm fighting a

BAM

top of his head she found that

nearly half a year, the level of understanding she had managed to develop about his intentions wasn't actually that deep. Part of it

from sending himself flying with each strike to sending himself digging into

utterly ridiculous transition from her perspective. Where was the power of her strike going? How

like this might very well be a grade nine

not speak vainly. Her biggest nemesis was the solid active

into the sky. "Come. I wish

out toward him

was harder because the air was not as much of a conductor of impacts

him,

VMMM!

faces morphed, surprised. When Rui dispelled the attack into the

turning into air currents, but also sound when I use Reverberating Lance to

in the air, thus Reverberating Lance, which generated vibrations, also generated sound when used to dispel