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Alas, he too underestimated Rui.

WHOOSH!

Where Rui was a moment ago, was nothing besides an empty image. His eyes widened in shock as he realized that Rui had side-stepped him with ease.

('He dodged me despite attacking them?') He gritted his teeth. "Damn you!"

He launched a barrage of powerful and swift blows, breathing deeply as he manipulated the entirety of the air behind to push his body forward, increasing his speed and power tremendously.

Yet all of them failed to reach Rui. He evaded them with a degree of proficiency that only Kane could surpass.

Yet it wasn't the failure of the attacks that hurt Squire Varay the most.

It was the fact that Rui wasn't even looking at him.

Everyone could see that he had firmly turned his attention back to the two Martial Squires that he had been targeting.

That was a statement.

A statement that Squire Varay wasn't even worth acknowledging.

Hardly anyone could believe what they were seeing. Two grade-ten Martial Squires were being surgically bullied by powerful attacks from a ridiculous distance away, while the third couldn't even touch him despite being right in front of his face.

He couldn't even get Rui to acknowledge his existence.

His eyes grew bloodshot as an expression of pure rage covered his face. He prided himself as someone who stood at the very epitome of the Squire Realm. While there were Martial Squires stronger than him, he was not weak by any means.

Yet standing before Rui's gargantuan figure that refused to even meet his eyes, he felt as though he had gone back twenty years ago when he fought a Martial Squire for the first time after breaking through to the Squire Realm.

"YOU WILL NOT DISRESPECT ME!" He bellowed as he went all-out.

him with effort, making it untenable for the young man to ignore him or continue dodging him with

then that

movements began growing slower and

became cleaner

his muscles began growing

didn't fully understand what was happening, but

speed

he

man had the audacity to not only ignore him but also

the speed of Void Forestep anymore. His predictive model on Squire Varay had already reached a point where he could avoid the man without enhanced speed. Instead, he turned on Hypertrophic Surge to the maximum, doubling his offensive power, and causing even more damage as he accurately

other hand, felt and looked like a fool as Rui effortlessly dodged attacks that he predicted via the many passive and active patterns that he had spotted

that moment,

forward, determined to strike Rui no matter what. His fist moved so abysmally fast, that

not even that

WHOOSH!

hook with a step forward, closing the distance with

at the shocked man with a smirk, meeting his gaze for

had been waiting for that

he had been the real target, not the

was the last thought that flashed through his mind before the world went

BOOM!!!

powerful Flowing Canon amplified with the full power of the Hypertrophic Surge technique, as well as Outer Convergence

CRACK CRACK CRACK!

a deep dent in the man's chest even as it launched him across

BOOM!!!

end with

a moment,

Nobody moved.

Nobody could move.

that moment passed, all hell broke loose amongst the spectators. The gravity of what happened fully