The Martial Unity

Though the predictive model allowed him to bypass reaction speed by replacing reactions and reflexes with predictions and foreknowledge, there were limits to this. It could not help him evade attacks that were far faster than him. At least, not as he and it were as they currently were.

For example, even if he tried dodging well ahead of time due to having foreknowledge, the Root would most certainly alter its trajectory to match its dodge. If it could see him moving much ahead of time out of the way, then obviously it would not simply hit empty air, no, it would instead shift to attack the dodging Rui.

This meant that he could not dodge too much ahead of time even if he knew it was coming well ahead of time. He needed to time the evasion maneuvers just right, it could not be too much of a headstart.

However, because Rui was so much slower, he could not dodge it if he didn't get a headstart either.

Thus if he started too early, he would get hit because the Root could alter its trajectory and hit him to where he had dodged to.

If he didn't start early, then he would get hit because his body was too slow to move out of the way when they both started moving at the same time.

That was why the predictive model was not enough. Damned if he did, damned if he didn't.

Rui had used the VOID algorithm to overcome speed gaps before, however, he had never succeeded in doing so with such a large speed gap.

The difference between his Martial Art techniques/body and the Root's attacks was no different from the difference between a normal human and a speed bullet.

a gigantic gap all by itself. Even if the VOID algorithm allowed his mind to keep up thanks to

I only focused on a technique that amplified movement speed and discard reaction

was not advised. A body that moved faster than the mind was dangerous in many ways. For one, if the body moved too fast for the mind, then the Martial Artist would be unable to react to their own movements. Thus, if they needed to stop a maneuver at a certain point, they might stop

themselves with their own techniques, and causing themselves harm

might start to throw a single punch and the very next

exceed the

would be unable to react to its opponent's

mental speed with the help of foreknowledge?') Rui's eyes widened. ('What if someone's mind acted on the future

the mind would be able

not need to react to the body if it already knew

focus on a technique that relies on maximizing bodily speed without any care of my reaction speed being left behind,') Rui realized. ('Then I can compensate for my lack in reaction

he predicted an attack ahead of time, and prepared the movement speed supplementing technique, preparing exactly what movements to make ahead of time, allowing him to execute movements

predictions would already allow it to know what was going

different from pre-programming his body to respond in a certain way

eagerly evaluated and simulated such a technique inside his mind, conducting some preliminary analyses on whether the