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."

in a tug of war. It doesn't matter how much force he applies, human level, Squire level, or even infinite force. The weakest link will always break first in a tug of war, and the weakest links are all in his

he understood the analogy. "So the clashes between their fists are like a tug of war but in the opposite direction. Both of their joints are experiencing the

a collision where joints take all the strain because hers don't. When he swung down on her, she simply guarded because his wrist was weaker than

just her bones to be rock solid, but her joints to be equally tough, she could ensure that the clash would

wasn't an offensive striker. She's actually a conditioning-oriented counter-offensive specialist,') Rui mused. ('And she's

BAM BAM BAM!!

painful defenses. He even tried bull charging with his entire body, yet she keenly

CRACK!

when he threw a wild haymaker. She swiftly rushed forward, throwing a flurry

and Kane watched as she utterly beat the man black and blue, breaking his joints

CRACK!

across the battle arena, smashing

even bother finishing him

after the man breathed his final breath that

arena expressionlessly. Rui watched