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!

blow stung more and more, as

POW POW POW!

not expected such a technique to work despite the sheer power that it was conveying deeper and

techniques, any pattern or limitation that exists in it becomes much harder to get

active defensive technique was 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

to pause in the middle of the battle as

rushed in after momentarily stepping back to crash yet another powerful Flowing Canon on the

Yet he didn't.

attack was about engage, Fzartil brought

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 simply knock him out the

concrete progress. Rui wasn't even using the Void algorithm for such an opponent. He did not need it against such

at all. There were bigger fish to fry, and if the ringleader of the three scavengers was watching, then Rui decided it was best not to divulge all

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

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 absolute limit

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

that he attacked was a well-timed