The Martial Unity

"There's no doubt about you," She sighed, before turning to Kane. "But it's your turn now."

She needed first-hand knowledge of both of them, and that meant fighting Kane as well. Kane nodded, acquiescing, and the two of them quickly stood some distance apart from each other, before taking their stances.

Kane, as always, took his light-footed stance, while Squire Ferilwal took her shoot stance.

Rui watched with interest as he analyzed the battle.

('Their win conditions is straightforward,') Rui mused. ('If Kane gets caught, he loses, if he can keep away for long enough, he'll be able to win.')

Rui suddenly recalled something as he narrowed his eyes exerting some pressure on Kane to draw his attention. Kane glanced at Rui with a raised eyebrow.

Rui simply shook his head once.

Kane stared at his him, nodding once, before turning back.

Soon enough, the battle began.

DASH!

She shot forward, as was predictable aiming for Kane with her arms. Much to Rui's relief, he casually evaded with visible ease.

Rui sighed in relief. He wasn't worried that Kane wouldn't be able to evade her initial glance, he was just happy that Kane didn't go all out.

He didn't use Void Step.

how good Squire Ferilwal's senses were. He wasn't sure that she would be able to recognize the sheer potency of the grade-ten technique. Regardless, if Kane used it here, he would be expected to use it on the battlefield against the surrounding nations. It would expose his technique on a wide scale and thus, it would increase the

it even if it would grant him the victory in this

at that moment with that

as she lashed out against Kane again, lashing out

wasn't quick

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evaded by leaping

POW!

gut, allowing him to push himself away

irritation, annoyed by his speed. However, Kane could see that his attack had essentially done

as striking power went. Unlike Rui, he did not possess the ability to inflict major damage on her with

order to avoid her shoots, he could be much closer, and avoid her much

her aggressive shooting strategy the second she saw that it wasn't as effective as she had hoped it would be. The way

bad, she's clever,') Rui

stick to a losing strategy that would only drain her stamina faster

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in his direction, she chose to systematically close off the

it is an effective strategy,') Rui mused. ('Her maneuvering is greater than mine as a

to the degree where he could run circles around her. Furthermore, with her remarkably large wingspan, she was able to cover a lot of area at any given

appeared to be a strange game of tag, as Kane quickly realized that he was slowly but

running away and faced her head-on, preparing his palm

in an instant, his jab shot forward to