The Martial Unity

They were arrogant words at face value, yet one could tell Rui was not merely grandstanding.

He meant every word.

That was why many could not help but believe him.

Perhaps it really was too late. Perhaps they should have taken him down sooner, and no longer had any chance of doing so.

Almost as if to prove a point, Rui moved, rushing forward toward them.

His eyes were fixed on the Martial Squire closest to him. He lashed forward, launching his most powerful attack!

A powerful Flowing Canon flew in the direction of his closest competitor. Ordinarily, an attack from so far away would be easier to dodge.

Yet Rui knew he wouldn't dodge.

The man he was targeting was a powerful defensive Martial Artist with a body that was slanted toward passive defense.

"Come!" The man firmly planted his feet into the ground, while adopting a defensive stance.

He was confident that at the very least, he would be able to handle Rui's raw power, if nothing else.

It wasn't that his confidence was misplaced. His analysis was actually quite reasonable. When one considered Rui's weight compared to his, as well as the fact that his Martial Body did not seem slanted for offense, and neither did his Martial Art, then the conclusion was quite reasonable.

Yet unfortunately for him, Rui did not fit into standard models of Martial Artists.

man would find that

TAP TAP TAP!

a powerful strike that he had braced his abdomen for

when he couldn't move anymore for a brief moment that he felt a deep flash

SPLAT!

his fingers at the very moment that he was unable to move. He had baited the man into adopting a passive defensive stance meant to withstand a powerful blow, and switched up at the last moment, opting to instead for a choice

which vital to attack.

Artists.

witnessed

discouraging. They hoped that a defensive Martial Artist would be able to hold out for longer. Ideally, if he had been able to stall him by weathering all of his attacks, then this would have been easier for them. They would be able to gang up on him with the defensive Martial Squire throwing himself in front of Rui to use himself as a shield

not to be the case. Rui had long predicted that the man would be able to withstand his attacks in base form, aside from perhaps Transverse Resonance tier five. Rather than wasting energy on taking him down the hard way, he simply made full use of patterns that the elementary predictive models had been

prone to tanking offense passively probably still relied on some amount of active defense to cover vital spots. Rui simply got rid of that active

others couldn't help but be shocked at how

time, and it most

He rushed forward.

Three Martial Squires rushed forward, launching three

WHOOSH

attack touched so much as a hair on his body. One moment he was in front of them, within

he disappeared. They couldn't even sense

That wasn't quite

('Shit! He's behind us!')

the last thing they

BOOM!!!

three of them, launching them away. This was the most apt way to use the