The Martial Unity

SLASH SLASH SLASH

SPLAT

Rui grimaced as he leaped back, caressing the wound on his neck. He had attempted to see whether his incredible sword-based offense was able to cut down the branches that lashed out at him when he triggered the defensive mechanism.

Unlike the first time, where both he and Kane were caught greatly off-guard, he was prepared this time when he entered its range. He had just tried to see whether he could potentially make progress against the volley of branches that inevitably blasted toward him.

It was clear that the tree, like all living beings in the dungeon, had been monsterified with the esoteric substances running through its veins. This meant that the chilled Bellhorn Steel ought to be able to destroy the branches apart pretty easily, all things considered. What Rui was hoping for was the destruction to be potent enough to prevent the branches from actually reaching even as he proceeded moving towards the large singular esoteric deposit

He just realized he couldn't.

('It's not a matter of my sword being too weak, my sword is cutting through just fine, the issue is that my slashing frequency speed is not enough to prevent the branches from ever reaching me, especially when moving forward,') He tutted to himself.

It was harder to prevent the branches from striking him when he moved forward for multiple reasons, the first reason was, of course, he had less time to slash at them when he was moving towards the branches than if he was standing in one place. The relative velocity between them grew higher and the branches would only be moving faster from his perspective, making it even harder to cut them down before they could reach him.

Furthermore, the number of branches attacking also increased the closer he got. He had hypothesized that each branch's defensive system was autonomous to a certain extent, and they would simply attack whatever entered the radius. The closer he got to the tree, the more branches detected him and lashed out at him, making it even more difficult than it already was.

just standing stationarily at the edge of the range of the branch's striking range, I can manage, so

VOID algorithm wasn't strictly limited to humans, it was truly out of its element against a non-sentient tree that only had a single attack pattern; straight. Normally, Rui could drastically reduce his reaction times and lag with the help of the predictive model, but even though he had already created a

elementarily simple. The problem was that it didn't really help, this was one challenge that required adequate amounts of speed and destructive power, and unfortunately, Rui's Martial Art could not make up for the gap

of attempts. "This isn't good

anything. Hell, we've tried more than I would have had

is the first real setback we've faced in the Shionel Dungeon," He said out loud, there have been a few headaches here and there, but this is the first time our winning strategy has been

concurred, nodding. "What do

to be considered. The first avenue was simply relying on themselves to slowly make progress and hopefully find a way to

would have to spend a lot of time hacking it, and Kane was basically useless when it came to cutting down the branches, the only reason

was another avenue

have to do all the

in confusion. "Like, abandon the floor

shook his head. "What I am talking about is the fact that we