The Martial Unity

Three days passed as the challenge issued by the defensive scavenger came up eventually.

"Challenger: Guardian Fzartil. Defender: Guardian Falken."

The two of them stepped forward as they faced each other.

"Take your stances," The arbiter experienced.

Squire Fzartil grinned as he took a closed stance, bringing up his arms before him in a guarding position. Furthermore, he had spread his legs crouching, anchoring him to the spot as the divided weight made it more difficult for him to be mobile, but it also gave his stance a lot more stability.

('He's not going to be easy to move,') Rui narrowed his eyebrows. ('Very well then,')

They had both chosen close-range distance, thus the two of them faced each other up close. Rui adopted a classical boxing stance with both fists lower and pointing at his opponent. Such a stance was aggressive and offensive, and it showed Rui's intentions of fighting to beat him down.

"Begin!"

Instantly, not even a moment after the fight began, Rui dashed forward, launching himself at the man.

BOOM!!!

The combined power of Outer Convergence, Wind Breathing Reverberating, and a Flowing Canonon crashed into his guard as a huge shock wave arose from the collision.

The man gritted his teeth as he almost certainly experienced a tremendous amount of stress on his guard. He was a passive defensive Martial Artist, and a lot of it involved that he was employing some form of conditioning.

Rui could feel his Adamant Forging, pushing against a much greater degree of conditioning on the man's flesh.

POW POW POW!

more,

POW POW POW!

technique to work despite the sheer power that it was

of the lack of active defensive techniques, any pattern or limitation that exists in it becomes much harder to get rid of in the middle

not doing too well then one could simply cease using it. Yet this simply wasn't the case with passive

BAM BAM BAM!

blasted him with blow after blow. He even threw him some Lightning Ripple techniques that shot through the man's nervous system occasionally. These caused brief periods of hampered and limited

lightning across his body, causing him to pause in the middle of the battle as his body suddenly

momentarily stepping back to crash yet another powerful Flowing Canon on the man's

Yet he didn't.

was about engage, Fzartil brought his

Yet it never came.

Rui simply twirled by.

BAM!

the exposed head was enough. Although the man had conditioned even his head, it was not enough for Rui to

algorithm for such an opponent. He did not need it

no intention of using it at all. There were bigger fish to fry, and if the ringleader of the three scavengers was watching, then Rui decided it

because he was being watched and extensively prepared, he did not want to get carried away and

had truly forced Rui to use his Flowing Void Style to the absolute maximum. None of them had been able to push him all that far, and certainly, none of them had gotten him to use the Forestep technique be used to the

him to divulge his full power. After all, he was sure that in order to climb up, he would need

gritted his teeth as the image of Rui that he attacked was a