The Martial Unity

This battle came to remind Rui of one of his other weaknesses. Perhaps it was more of a shortcoming, but regardless, Rui had come to remember how much larger scale conflicts and team battles could catch him off-guard.

The last time he had been part of a conflict this big was in the Serevian War, however, back then he was the most powerful and dangerous person on the battlefield, thus he never felt this shortcoming nearly as much. However, he realized that he was too accustomed to analyzing and making combat-centric decisions in a vacuum with his opponent and himself, and the environment. He did not have much experience in group battles.

The last time he truly fought together as a group was with his four friends against the newborn Martial Squire of the Commonwealth Duchy of Vinfrana. Even then, that was against one opponent.

Rui swore that he would rectify this problem when he got the chance. For now, however, he had to deal with the consequences of being caught off-guard due to not having factored in such an elementary solution.

His opponent shot across the sky at an extremely high speed towards him, laughing maniacally winding her leg back to slam him with a powerful attack no doubt. Rui scrambled away from the trajectory of her motion, but she carefully made sure to adjust her trajectory to keep up with Rui via sky-walking.

Rui felt Primordial Instinct screaming to him about the incoming danger as she got closer to him until it was too late for him to avoid her.

"RARGH!" She kicked hard, contorting her body to generate as much torque as she could. She employed power-boosting supplementary techniques not too dissimilar to Outer Convergence. However, it was exponentially more powerful than that of Rui when she used it. Hell, Rui was sure that she was proportionally more powerful than even Fae if their Realms and grades were hypothetically equalized.

Her leg blurred in his vision as it lashed out against him with tremendous power. Rui gritted his teeth as he intercepted the attack with his palm, immediately activating Flux Earther.

BAM!!!

CRACK!

WHOOSH!!!

yet what surprised her was that the impact seemed to suddenly send him hurtling an incredible distance away at incredible speeds as though he had been launched by a catapult. It was a strange sensation unlike anything she had

groaned as he finally managed

down at his swollen wrist. As bad as it looked, the situation wasn't all that bad. After all, he wasn't fighting with his arms

to do

start to finish, he only executed about half the technique. He elastically converted the power of her attack to kinetic energy to accelerate his body and send him

to prevent his wrist from cracking,

he consumed his healing potion. He had brought multiple since he knew that it was entirely

unwilling to give up on taking him down. She barreled down,

already winding as he wrung his body to generate as much power as he could when he flung her

as he prepared himself to take on yet another K'ulnen

WHOOSH

mate launched her forward as he withstood the attacks of his actual opponent with raw durability to ensure that he could help her against

shot towards him. ('I guess the only possible way out of this situation is to retreat from the battle entirely

His eyes narrowed. ('Win.')

an idea formed in his head as he came up with a