The Martial Unity

It didn't take Rui long to regain his composure. Regardless of what the magic that Kane was performing at the moment was, Rui quickly grew sober after witnessing it a few times.

On top of that, he was following Kane. That meant he had to successfully deal with the same tribulations that Kane was dealing with, otherwise, he would get struck by the lightning himself!

Rui's eyes narrowed as he steeled his focus, honing his concentration and he gathered every bit of his awareness and brainpower to the hurdles at hand.

He dashed to the left as he avoided the eight streamers that immediately formed into a lightning bolt. The density of the lightning bolts per unit area of land had increased substantially, so much so that even Kane no longer went deeper but had long since curved his trajectory sideways.

('He wanted to go deeper so that he could travel a shorter circle and complete a lap around the valley quicker than if he stayed on the outer ring that would require traveling longer distances,') Rui mused. ('Sheesh, he sure is competitive.')

It wasn't too strange. This was his field, his Martial Path. It made sense that he would hold back no punches when competing in a manner that centered around it, so Rui wasn't worried.

In fact, Rui tried imagining how competitive he might get if he entered a competition centered around adapting and evolving.

('It wouldn't even be funny,') Rui knew himself well enough to know that he was not going to take such a competition lightly. He would push himself to the absolute limit if that was what it took to validate the competitiveness and effectiveness of his Flowing Void Style compared to the rest who walked similar Martial Paths.

Seeing Kane go all out accomplishing such dazzling results strangely motivated Rui more than he had expected. He thought he was above such juvenile games even if there was merit in friendly competitions.

('Apparently not,') He smiled as he exhaled deeply.

Instantly, his body felt lighter. He decided that if he had any chance of winning, he couldn't hold back!

a second surge of power enveloped his body

light as air, yet as swift as

as he decided to take a little bit of a risk. He hadn't yet tried using the full extent of Forestep with the new sensory technique that he had just created. That was why

WHOOSH!

at an incredible speed as his momentum tore through

BOOM BOOM

five lightning bolts before they had even

lightning bolts. It made life much easier as he was able to do a great job at maintaining top speed as he zipped through

going all out are you?" Kane laughed as he saw that Rui was no longer being left behind in the dust. "But that's not going to be enough

He was right, unfortunately.

it was just a matter of

was most suited to maneuvering, speed, and

up, it would be through the reaction speed department, but unfortunately, Kane had him beat in that aspect as

to do his very best. At the very least, he could not embarrass himself by falling behind to the point that Kane's figure had entirely left his

persevered, pushing himself to the

even that was

"I win!"

the air, pumping his fist into the

with a resigned smile, appearing just some seconds later.