The Martial Unity

Rui raised an eyebrow as an amused smile sprouted on his face. He felt bad, but his first reaction was one where he had a hard time taking Kane seriously. He was so far ahead of him on a general level that the two were no longer operating on the same scale.

Furthermore, Rui grew stronger against opponents the more he knew about them, and he knew Kane really well. The predictive model he had on the guy was incredibly robust and sophisticated. It was better than any predictive model he had ever created in his life.

What that meant was that Kane did not stand a chance against him ordinarily. Rui was confident that he would be able to fight three, or even five Kanes under normal circumstances.

However, he quickly realized that his confidence wasn't entirely unwarranted. The new technique that Kane had developed allowed him to develop multiple techniques that allowed him to fight people much stronger than himself.

('No, it made him much stronger, period,') Rui corrected himself.

Kane had achieved what Rui couldn't, and had truly attained another level of speed. Even Rui could not blatantly dismiss his confidence against him.

When Rui considered some of the best feats that he was proud of recently, he found that Kane wouldn't necessarily lag too behind in regards to some of them.

In fact, he would surpass Rui in some of them. For example, he would probably do a far better job avoiding the roots that Rui faced when he fought against the Root.

was considerably higher than Rui considering he now

Kane didn't need to burn the Godspeed technique into muscle memory since, unlike Rui, his reflexes could now keep up with the Godspeed technique thanks to this

combined, even with the prediction model, Rui wasn't sure if he would be able to dominate Kane like he once would be

Rui to get used to this shift, but he was

touted as a prodigious genius,') Rui

the opportunity to allow his mind to undergo a second round of growth in his new brain,

and affinity for Martial Art allowed him to discover his Martial Path at the tender

no different from a first-grade student being promoted to seventh or eighth grade due

even more convinced that the reason Kane seemed to have stalled for a while was not being subject to the right circumstances. A theory that he had come up with many months ago. Martial Artists had

never really challenged on impeded in that regard. The only time he had been challenged in that regard was on the sixteenth floor when they were confronted with the tree that was unaffected by Void Step, but that was not something he had

the same was not true for the Thundering Valley. It seemed like it was just the perfect place to truly bring out the untapped potential

subject them to challenges that would stimulate not only himself but also Kane. So that they could both grow side-by-side. It would make his job more complicated as the process of choosing places would become increasingly complicated, but he was willing to suffer this minor detriment to the benefit of his

think?" Kane smirked mischievously. "Scared you'll

"But a duel, and not