The Martial Unity

The fundamental structure of the human consciousness was such that the human could truly ever focus on only one thing at a time. Even if one felt that they were thinking about multiple things at once, this was not true. It was an illusion, what was actually happening was that the mind was thinking about multiple things in extremely rapid succession, making it seem like it was focusing on multiple things simultaneously.

This was the same mechanism that processors worked through, they could only engage in one distinct process at once and switched between many in extremely rapid succession.

It was because of this that in the brief moments where she had to focus on Kane, Rui's attack had almost completely landed on her!

As an experienced Martial Artist, she quickly realized the exact mechanics by which Rui was able to land powerful attacks on her bypassing her active defense due to effectively exploiting a momentary mental blindspot.

Yet she underestimated what was happening.

It wasn't just her that Rui was predicting, it was also Kane!

Kane was aware that Rui knew his movements inside out and was extremely flexible. So all he did was simply forget that Rui existed and went all out to become as much of a problem to Senior Xanarn as possible.

Rui had an extremely deep predictive model for Kane, he stacked the predictive models on top of each other to predict what Senior Xanarn was going to do many beats into the future!

This allowed him to prepare the most surgically adapted responses to her movements well ahead of time!

of them were able to push her into a defensive state as they went all out. Although they were unable to dominate her because even without the Martial Heart, she could easily withstand anything other than Rui's most powerful attacks to her vitals, and Kane's

so captivated by the movements of Rui and Kane, that they completely forgot that

Kane momentarily exchanged grins as they burned their power to

And it was working.

even faster than her in his Fulminata state. He could outrun her attacks until they diluted and weakened, while Rui efficiently canceled

the rest of her attacks with his body, while his enhanced healing factor worked furiously to fix all the damage to ensure he retained his combat effectiveness

Her attacks were incredibly heavy, there was a reason that she had

the role that he was playing, he could tolerate not being in peak condition. His goal was to

he had the opportunity to make sure

for her solar plexus, her liver, neck and above, and

those strikes from landing,

and had long exited the 'teacher' stage of the battle, she was now focused on winning, and would not make it easy for either Rui

began between the two of them as they

rhythm as they grew increasingly cleaner

other hand had been fighting continuously without even a moment's break for hours, exerting enough power to overwhelm

source of power and formidability mainly came from their Martial Hearts, without which they were

was truly running out