The Martial Unity

He had activated Forestep to a minor degree than he normally did, the Forestep technique boosted his movements to a much less degree than Kane's Godspeed did because it inherently spread the boost over time and because Rui had only mastered the Godspeed amplification technique to a partial degree due to lack of affinity and Kane's talent.

Even still, that almost entirely compensated for the significant gap between them, albeit Rui's moves were still less fluid than Kane's, his reaction was longer than his as well. He still did not want to waste this application of the Forestep technique.

Even if he did not make much progress today, he was determined to gain more experience and then use that experience to identify what it was that he was lacking, and what he could to do make it better.

In time, he hoped to become more effective in dealing with lightning.

The two of them immediately jumped back into training as they maneuvered across the outer layers of the Thunder Valley. Rather than just statically dodging lightning from place to place, the two of them decided a run course across the outer section of the Thundering Valley.

This increased the difficulty of the challenge because they needed to dodge lightning while moving at high speeds. It was much more difficult to dash off in a direction perpendicular to one's running than it was to do so when one was stationary. It allowed them to make it more challenging without increasing the risks too much by going too deep into the Thundering Valley.

Kane had it easier as he had to hold back since he was still faster than Rui due to the Forestep technique being limited in order to last longer. Furthermore, Rui himself was acting more cautiously and carefully, since he was moving faster than what he was most comfortable with.

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The two of them engaged in all kinds of maneuvers to evade lightning from all directions. One of the tricky parts about lightning was the fact that not only did it not follow a straightforward trajectory, but it was capable of moving in all kinds of wacky directions.

them but then

quite surprising since they had forgotten that this was a place where Martial Artists trained. As they circled around the valley, they ran into several Martial Squires. Thankfully, they each minded their own business. No one wanted to do anything that could be misconstrued as hostility and get into a fight in such an environment, that was concretely detrimental to both sides. It was not possible to fight all out here without getting hit by lightning bolts, thus all of them pretended the other did

Artists weren't the only creatures

as something moving in the distance

where the lightning came from. He had purposely minimized his awareness of what was ahead given that he was preoccupied by the lightning, he only needed

felt a sense of threat that

expected. About the size of a tiger, yet vastly more perilous. It resembled a fusion between a lion and a wolf, with one of the most eye-drawing traits being the fur coat that sparkled with lightning. In fact, the mane of

eyes widened as he gazed at the

Rui paused in his paths, prompting Kane

creature had intelligent

magnificent creature with an otherworldly appearance. It possessed a grace and a fierceness that co-existed. He knew that they were not going

It growled at them. Rui's widened as he instinctively understood what the beast was

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creature without so much as fazing it. It appeared that it was truly

even turn away, the creature lashed out

"Shi-!"