The Martial Unity

Rui was ready to give his technique a new name.

('Though is it really a new technique if it's just a result of using three techniques simultaneously?') Rui wondered.

That was an interesting question. Rui did not think that it mattered in the grand scheme. Regardless of whether he considered it to be a separate technique or not, it was something that expanded his Martial Art that also individuality.

There was no point in speculating too much.

('Still, it feels nice commemorating it as a technique,') Rui shrugged. ('Even if it can barely be considered one.')

Rui knew that he wasn't missing much either way. Instead, he shifted his attention back to the Thundering Valley.

It was time for a test. He wanted to see how much more knowing the destination of the lightning would help him avoid them.

('There's a good chance I can use Forestep to a much higher degree, if not the entire way,') He grew enthusiastic at the thought.

He quickly got up, stretching as he warmed his body up. All that time spent meditating made him feel as though his body had gotten a little stiff. Not even Martial bodies were exempt from the requirement of activity to maintain their peak form.

He stretched every muscle in his body to the limit, groaning in comfort as he felt the blood flow to the various muscle groups increasing.

feet as he activated the Forestep

deeply, immediately feeling his body grow lighter as a surge of power began

sensory technique. Immediately as he walked in, he could identify the patterns that corresponded with the presence of streaks of charged particles reaching up

BOOM BOOM BOOM!

air as he gracefully avoided them. He didn't even feel the need to stress his mind by forcing his reflexes to keep up with his movements. The current system that he was working with, to a certain extent, mimicked what he had

BOOM!

I think about it in hindsight,') Rui thought to himself as he casually dodged a

events. That was essentially how the predictive model of the VOID

natural phenomenon as opposed to a person,') Rui mused. ('The biases and patterns that normal people have are part of their individuality. However, the patterns in natural phenomena in nature are… nothing short of the

as he dodged lightning bolts with greater ease than ever

can help me understand the nature of not just my opponent's fighting

STEP

paused in his path. Just the fact that that possibility seemed like it might

the VOID algorithm was originally something that he had created for hand-to-hand combat. That was

doesn't mean the same is true in Gaia, right?') Rui wondered to himself before his eyes

cusp of something important, a deep and sharp sense

BOOM!

A big lightning bolt struck his entire

valley, groaning in pain. "Note to self, store all epiphanies in the Mind Palace when in urgent situations before getting

though the coursing