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!

of blows was launched

gear the very second the battle broke out, and yet it was only a minute into the battle that the clashes began achieving a stable equilibrium despite the high

on the defensive. He began throwing fewer and fewer strikes from the initial clash the moment the battle had commenced, being

eyes narrowed. ('So this is his Martial

what was happening in just a moment. While he disapproved of Guardian Seronin and his tactics, he had to admit, they had merit as distasteful as they

and defense

this was simple, it wasn't that he put more weight on defense than offense in his Martial

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

effectivity by putting a greater weight on his offense

a distribution of resources that was most apt to combat it was one of the more fundamental steps when

it isn't going to be enough for me,') Rui's eyes

of pressure mounted on Squire Seronin as Rui focused,

WHOOSH!

disappeared in the face of an

fact that the battle, while intense, had reached monotony to catch him

TAP TAP TAP!

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

WHOOSH!

avoided a haymaker as he crouched, simultaneously launching a sweeping kick, knocking

shoot maneuver. Yet Squire Seronin

noted. ('Most likely due to the recount of Thundercoil that

was a field with very little room for mistakes, it was a field of inevitability. If he was weaker,

the distance is not

THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM!