The Martial Unity

"Good luck," Kane wished him as they split ways.

"Challenger; Guardian Falken," The arbiter announced once Rui entered the arena.

"Defender; Guardian Seronin."

The two of them approached each other as they stopped two meters away from each other. Rui had declined to go for any particular range and offered his opponent to choose the range of the battle, who promptly chose a short-range battle.

"Hehehe…" The man grinned. "Hope you're ready to go down because that's the only place you're going in this fight."

"I've been wanting to ask…" Rui remarked, ignoring his little taunt. "Why?"

The man snorted. "Naive little brat. This is the way of the world. I'm going to crush you because you don't know that."

"Take your stances." The arbiter instructed.

Rui took a simple neutral stance that didn't particularly place much weight on any field of combat.

The man, instead, grinned as he put forth one arm forward defensively while the other was tucked by his side, coiled and ready to strike. He spread his legs partially, enough to have a good and strong foundation, but little enough to ensure that he could still maneuver comfortably.

It was a rather basic all-rounder stance, so Rui didn't really look much into it.

"Begin!" The arbiter commenced the duel.

Both men rushed in toward each other, and immediately unfolded a flurry of blows!

POW POW POW!

was launched

was only a minute into the battle that the clashes began achieving a stable

began throwing fewer and fewer strikes from the initial

('So this is

understood what was happening in just a moment. While he disapproved of Guardian Seronin and

the optimal balance between offense and defense to apply when fighting in hand-to-hand combat.')

on defense than offense in his Martial Art, not at all. The reason for this was that his offensive capital was spread across multiple ranges, while his defensive techniques were applicable

against than hurt. His defense had powerful techniques such as Flux Earther, Adamant Reforging, Inner Divergence, and Acute Edge. His

a greater weight on his offense

was part of what he did, analyzing combat distributions and choosing a distribution of resources that was most apt to combat it was one of

be enough for me,') Rui's eyes

surge of pressure mounted on Squire Seronin as Rui focused, glaring at

WHOOSH!

disappeared in the face of

had used the fact that the battle, while intense, had reached monotony

TAP TAP TAP!

swift pokes to his abdomen, striking the intercostal nerves on his abdomen caused momentary

WHOOSH!

as he crouched, simultaneously launching a sweeping kick, knocking

in, charging in for a wrestling shoot maneuver. Yet Squire Seronin leaped back

noted. ('Most

a field with very little room for mistakes, it was a field of inevitability. If he was weaker, then he would certainly lose without many

the distance is not a good

THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM!