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.

an avalanche of pressure

And then it happened.

BANG

body weight plummeted even further below how light

titanic surge of power flushed through

then he was

WHOOSH.

Kane entered territories of speed that almost

expanded perpendicular to his motion, splitting all the clouds in the sky

a fine powder as the air around him was

crossed Rui in the tiniest of split seconds, stopping ten meters

THUD

unconscious. A heavy bruise

to one knee as he coughed some blood, much to his shock. "To think

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

not perfect even then,"

even faster than Kane himself did. Yet he had

even before he tended to his wounds,

groaned as he woke up.

as he

paused as his eyes gained clarity. "Oh.

didn't know how much it hurt,

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