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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blows was launched from both

and yet it was only a

strikes from the initial clash the moment the battle had commenced,

this is his Martial Art, not

of Guardian Seronin and his tactics,

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

defensive in hand-to-hand combat than he was offensive. The reason 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

techniques such as Flux Earther,

putting a greater weight on his offense while

capital,') This was part of what he did, analyzing combat distributions and choosing a distribution of resources that was

be

of pressure mounted on Squire Seronin as

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in the face of an

had used the fact that the battle,

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

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avoided a haymaker as he crouched, simultaneously

for a wrestling shoot maneuver. Yet Squire Seronin leaped

confident of beating me in grappling,') Rui swiftly noted. ('Most

mistakes, it was a field of inevitability. If he was weaker, then he would certainly lose without many

the distance is not a good idea against

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