The Martial Unity

The feeling of the prototypical preliminary application of the Forestep project was quite strange, to say the least.

Rui did not expect it to feel in any particular way, but it was jarring when he did use it. It was as though he was manipulating his own body like it was a puppet.

When he used Godspeed with ordinary combat movements, he couldn't react to his own movements. It was extremely difficult to control his speed and stop his movements in time. He basically needed to plan every movement out ahead of time carefully, and then start and stop it at the right time relying purely on highly prepared reflexes.

"WOAH!"

BANG!

He had crashed into a boulder when he had mastered the forty percent of the Godspeed technique.

"I told you, you can't react to it if you wait for the right moment, it happens too quickly. You don't know what the right moment is, either," Kane had told him months ago when he had tried applying the Godspeed boost to his combat movements.

It wasn't until the present day when Rui challenged him to a spar did he realize how wrong he was.

"Come, I have more tests to run," Rui smiled.

Kane got up with a bewildered expression. "You said… you were using only one technique?"

"That's right," Rui nodded. "Preliminary applications of Project Forestep are highly optimistic. It seems that the substitution of reaction speed with predictions of my Flowing Void Style is feasible, upon initial observations."

Kane's eyes widened at those words. "You're managing timings that you cannot react to by predicting them ahead of time!"

if it would work as well as

can keep up with me, no, overwhelm

to what extent," Rui took a stance this time, hopping lightly

stood on

Rui tuned into a blurry flash even his

WHOOSH

backward evolving sweeping kick to

reflexes truly are something else,"

the time to complain that he was struggling, he would have, but alas,

of pressure that Rui began exerting on him didn't push him back, his

was empowered with his incomplete Godspeed technique, much to

fluid compared to prior. His movements had been discrete and choppy, as though they had been put together by a robot, but they were starting

POW POW POW!

successful combo with Godspeed, something he had failed miserably to do prior. A look of

Which, he did.

many boxes that he

supplementary techniques. His raw physical power without any Martial Art techniques was enough to hurt Kane because the nature of the

was one of the reasons that Kane was evaluated to be a grade four or five Martial Squire despite

Even an accidental hit from a competent Martial Squire could leave him battered and bruised, taking too much

Kane was more concerned with his inability to

absolutely all out against Rui. ('Why can't I land a

Kane's Martial body was far faster and more agile than Rui's. Despite the fact that Kane had more speed supplementary and

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