The Martial Unity

The days went by quickly and eventually, Kane's match rolled up. Ten days passed by very quickly.

"Relax, you'll do just fine," Rui reassured him. "Your plan is solid."

"Fuuu…" He exhaled deeply as he tried relaxing his nerves.

It wasn't every day that he was to compete in a death match where only one person was allowed to come out alive. This was not the same as risking his life on a mission or on the battlefield.

As an evasive maneuverer, he had great confidence in his ability to evade danger and death by simply removing himself from a given circumstance or situation. He was extremely fast and nimble, and it was difficult for people to tag him.

This gave him comfort and reassurance at the back of his mind.

However, in this particular circumstance, he could not run away and remove himself from this particular circumstance. Once he stepped into it, it was already too late. He would need to kill his opponent.

"It's time," Rui mentioned.

Kane nodded wordlessly as he loosened his joints, heading out of his quarters and towards the dueling colosseum.

"Good luck," Rui wished him one last time as the two of them split up

The spectators watched as he entered the arena, heading towards the arbiter of the match. Rui was quite nervous, but the rest of the colosseum did not echo his emotions, this was just another ordinary match to them.

Squire

stepped up before Kane, locking eyes with him with a cold

helped. Challenges from initiates were no different from a declaration of the intent to kill. The man

challenged the nine-hundred and seventy-ninth guardian Heviluo," The arbiter announced.

begin, and the average distance of the distance that they stated would be used as the range at which the

distances had come out to be fifty, which was

your stances," The arbiter

while his arms were loosely at his side, the man, on the other hand, inhaled deeply

"Begin!"

into

Step had been activated, and no one could sense Kane anymore. It was at times like this that Rui was reminded of the true power of the Void Step technique. Because of how useless it was against him, it was easy to forget it.

POW!

on his body that didn't even hurt, it felt like a child hitting him. Yet his body shivered as he felt a deep sense of

SCRATCH

instead causing him to have a skin cut

consciousness being unable to

certainly was true even for the Martial body. It was easy for Kane to fool the ordinary senses of Martial Squires and even many of the techniques that they had to run circles around them, but when it came to

Kane had been able to get away with it because the Shionel Dungeon greatly hampered all senses even further, but Martial Squires was not to be trifled with when the sense of self-preservation was triggered. It was not something that could be misdirected

he covered his vitals, making sure that Kane couldn't hurt them. The previous two attacks had shown him that Kane's offense was not impressive. It was actually startlingly weak, he hadn't even been able to make him bleed with a piercing technique while his strikes

Kane could possibly take him down. As long