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!

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barrage of blows was launched from both

the battle broke out, and yet it was only a minute

and fewer strikes from the initial

eyes narrowed. ('So this is his Martial

While he disapproved of Guardian Seronin and his tactics, he

and defense to apply when fighting

for this was simple, it wasn't that he put more weight 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

such as Flux Earther, Adamant Reforging, Inner Divergence, and Acute Edge. His

greater weight on his offense

physical capital,') This 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

isn't going to be

of pressure mounted on Squire Seronin as Rui

WHOOSH!

disappeared in the face of an

used the fact that the battle,

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abdomen, striking the intercostal nerves on his abdomen caused momentary paralysis to several

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a haymaker as he crouched, simultaneously launching a sweeping

in, charging in for a wrestling shoot maneuver. Yet Squire Seronin leaped back swiftly, determined to avoid

('Most likely due to the recount of Thundercoil that he got from

field of inevitability. If he was weaker, then he would certainly lose without many avenues

distance is not a good

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