The Martial Unity

"She was about to get absolutely flattened by an attack that she couldn't handle… But then somehow the man took damage and backed off," Kane murmured, confused. "Is that poison, is she a poison-user?"

The others that heard Kane's speculation seemed to be inclined to agree. It made sense, this kind of delayed damage that was inflicted without strikes and collisions was characteristic of poison techniques.

"Not at all," Rui shook his head with an amused smile. "He just hurt himself."

"Huh?" Kane tilted his head.

"Take a look at her joints and bones," Rui gestured with his head.

Kane turned back with furrowed eyebrows, scrutinizing her body. "They're a much darker skin tone than the rest of her body, they also seem rougher and thicker… They're conditioned?"

"Correct," Rui nodded. "The weak point of the skeletal structure of the human, as well as a Martial body are the joints. Joints are easier to break than bones. She simply exploited that principle to inflict damage on him using his own power."

"I don't follow, how can she even do that?"

Rui paused for a moment as he considered how to explain it. "You can think of the skeleton as a chain. The human body passes power through each bone all the way to the fists and the knuckles that serve as the point of transfer of any impact of a punch. It's a chain that carries over the power of an impact. This is similar to a chain pulling an object where the force passes from the first link to the last link until it reaches the object, pulling it along. However, what if there was a weak link among all these links that couldn't withstand the force applied?"

"It would… break."

Rui nodded. "What she is doing is essentially removing the weak links from her chain, so that the weak links in his chains will break first in a tug of war. It doesn't matter how much force he applies, human level, Squire

direction. Both

her, she simply guarded because his wrist was weaker

rock solid, but her joints to be equally tough, she could

an offensive striker. She's actually a conditioning-oriented counter-offensive specialist,') Rui mused. ('And she's

BAM BAM BAM!!

he could bypass her strangely painful defenses. He even tried bull charging with his entire body, yet she keenly struck back, causing sharp intense pain to

CRACK!

a wild haymaker. She swiftly rushed

the fight was brutal. Rui and Kane watched as she utterly beat the man black and blue, breaking his joints

CRACK!

arena, smashing him against the wall, as he collapsed to the ground unconscious,

didn't even bother

few minutes later after the man breathed his final breath that the battle was declared

arena expressionlessly. Rui watched her with