The Martial Unity

Rui knew that going for a pass would land him in a similar situation as she was in right now, being targeted for a pass. Not that he didn't have experience being targeted. But the quality of Martial Squires in the second round was vastly higher than that of the preliminary contest.

If he was ganged up on here, then he had a very real probability of losing. Not even he could handle so many grade-ten Martial Squires for too long.

However, being the one to attack pass-gainers also meant competing with not only them but also the Martial Artist who gained the pass in the first place.

Furthermore, they would most certainly use the storm as a shield. Since the contestants would have long passed through the storm to acquire their own passes if they could.

('Tsk, such a pain,') Rui snorted. ('Surely, there must be a way to acquire a pass without the hassle of other contestants one way or another.')

His eyes widened as he came up with an interesting idea, breaking out into a grin.

He had a plan.

He quickly began the preparations as he rapidly began building a predictive model for the tornado and the Master's training technique.

What he was trying to do was map out the corresponding outcomes of the Master's breathing patterns and the resulting tornado. He needed to focus his mind to the absolute limit to be able to detect the patterns of her extremely rapid breathing.

Thankfully, she wasn't especially trying to confound anybody with her breathing patterns, it was clear that she was simply indulging in her own training. What the training was, Rui had no idea, after all, if the tornado were what the technique was all about, then it would be a Master-level technique and they would have all long been dead.

As it was, it was equivalent to a Senior-level technique, which was an entire Realm above them, and below her. Although they were Realm below it, the reason that they weren't all straight-up dead was because the power of the technique had been distributed over an extremely large amount of area and volume. Meaning each Martial Squire experienced only a tiny fraction of the full power of the Senior-level tornado.

an insurmountable task to most

generated the tornado. He quickly formed predictive models that allowed him to predict the future state of the tornado based

Yet this time, no one paid

Just as he hoped.

activating the Godspeed technique. Instantly his weight reduced massively as

forward, yet it wasn't the storm he was

movements, but it managed. After all, this was the same technique that allowed him to sense, predict, and dodge the

forward at a

absolute test. He flashed

because he wasn't

He couldn't afford to.

to predict how it would all unfold. Unfortunately, he could not do that, thus he had to restrict himself to analyzing the source of the

so much as faltering, one misstep and he would get

powerful technique

there was another who could come to possess a pass very soon. Since that was

burden lightened with

breath in anticipation

steal from. She kept muttering something about being ugly and

next one. They definitely had no intention of letting

action

They waited, impatient.