Rui had limited himself to defense to explore the limits of his new technique, while familiarizing himself with how the technique felt in different counters.

STEP

('Flying knee kick; 98.9% probability,') He waited for only the briefest moment before activating Godspeed on a sidestep.

WHOOSH

He had half-dodged the attack before it had begun after it was too late for Kane to change his decision.

This was not the most optimal counter to Kane's maneuver according to the adaptive evolution model. But that was fine. His intention was to grow familiar with using Godspeed to move before his opponents moved after it was too late to change their decision. His normal speed meant that against something of the Root's caliber, even if he did begin moving ahead of time after it was too late to change the attack, he would be too slow to make it in time.

('But with this… I think I can-Hm?') Rui's attention returned back to Kane who was tired of being toyed with, taking a crouching stance.

Instantly, the air grew taut as Kane radiated danger. Yet Rui welcomed what was about to come.

"Oh…?" Rui raised an eyebrow as his smile widened. "Let's see if I can match the real deal."

The original Godspeed that Kane had mastered was a grade-ten technique. When used, it could grant him speed that was theoretically crossing past the threshold of a higher Realm of speed!

Even if barely.

Could Rui's improvisation match the original? Rui was excited to find out. Furthermore, this performance would allow him to gauge how potent the technique was.

his mind unleashed an avalanche of pressure as his

And then it happened.

BANG BANG

hundred times in one millisecond as his body weight plummeted even further below how

of power flushed through

he was

WHOOSH.

territories of speed that

the size of a small district violently expanded perpendicular to his motion, splitting all the clouds in

his feat crumbled to a fine

of split seconds, stopping

THUD

to the ground, unconscious. A heavy bruise on his lower

much to

had purposely avoided using Outer Convergence, given Kane's constitution, the difference in power between them, and the power of the

the outcome is not perfect even then," Rui murmured with

which moved even faster than Kane himself did. Yet he had been able to knock him out with a well-placed

before he tended to his wounds, feeding

groaned as he woke up.

as he consumed his

his eyes gained clarity.

didn't know how much it hurt, and that was after you massively reduced

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