The Martial Unity

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.

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

then that something

began growing slower and

his dodges became cleaner

his muscles began growing

fully understand what was happening, but he managed

speed

a moment, he was just

was doing everything in his power to actually land a hit on Rui, yet the man had the audacity to

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

fool as Rui effortlessly dodged attacks that he predicted via the many passive and active patterns that he had spotted in

that moment, Squire Varay

rushed forward, determined to strike Rui no matter what. His fist moved so abysmally fast, that the friction with the atmosphere

not even

WHOOSH!

evaded a hook with a step forward, closing the distance with

with a smirk, meeting his gaze for

been waiting for that

he had been the real target, not the other two

flashed through his mind

BOOM!!!

of the Hypertrophic Surge technique, as well as Outer Convergence and Reverberating Lance, crashed into the man's

CRACK CRACK CRACK!

a deep dent in the man's chest even as

BOOM!!!

giant crater was formed at the end with Squire

moment, everything was

Nobody moved.

Nobody could move.

what had happened. But once that moment passed, all hell broke loose amongst the spectators. The gravity of what happened fully dawned on all