The Martial Unity

Rui continued increasing the intensity of his long-range attacks from a distance, spamming barrages of sonic bullets, trying to slowly gather damage while keeping it away from him at a distance, while also sky-walking at top speed.

Ordinarily, this would be difficult for any grade-ten Martial Squire to overcome. Rui's long-range offense was quite respectable even without Hypertrophic Surge, furthermore, with Gale Force Breathing, and Outer Convergence he could shift around the air quite swiftly. Catching up to him was a remarkably heavy task.

Yet, the Abyssfeeder simply shifted its form. From a concave hemisphere, its shape shifted to that of a disk.

('Coefficient of drag reduced by ninety-six-point-eight percent.') Rui's expression grew more severe. ('It's adapting to aerial maneuvering by becoming more aerodynamic because I took the battle to the air.')

Now, the earlier equation no longer held true. The Abyssfeeder zipped through the air at a much greater speed than Rui could. The human body was not aerodynamic, and there was a limit to what Martial Art techniques could do in that regard.

Nothing beat literally changing the shape of one's body to cut through the air effortlessly, even particularly useful techniques like Gale Force Breathing were not enough. The Abysfeeder shot through the air towards Rui faster than any of the contestants could hope to outrun or tag with attacks, that was why most of them quickly returned to the ground.

But not Rui.

BOOM!

Many widened their eyes.

Rui sharply tagged the flashing disk with a tier three Transverse Resonance out of seemingly nowhere, displaying remarkably high accuracy that far exceeded the conventional limits of the Squire Realm!

on the Abyssfeeder midair, every single attack that Rui

Rui incredible accuracy. Because the creature mindlessly became increasingly efficient and energy-consumptive in its trajectories, Rui could easily predict

to the fact that the sound bullet could not be easily perceived once it was launched, it simply was not equipped to dodge him. It could try and gauge his aim from physical cues, but that required not only being sentient and intelligent

possibilities. He became more and more certain of his understanding of this creature the more he fought it. He became more and more certain that it embodied the concept of the body of water

not allowing it to reach him. ('It's more like individual cells undergo random rapid genetic changes or mutations in the face of an environmental problem or hurdle. Cells with successful changes most likely serve

for how these changes occurred? Rui

his eyes, staring at its

it could be edited by the body through complicated biochemical processes. It was through RNA editing that octopuses edited their brains and bodies to be able to adapt

adapt to much more than octopuses could, along with the presence of primordial seed in the creature's body. Together, he understood why it came to be

BOOM!!!

creature with a tier five

him to constantly knock away the aerodynamic disk from entering close range from him, Rui knew better than to be satisfied with the course of the

BAM BAM BAM!

struck the disk this time,

budge this time…It grew even faster!') Rui narrowed his eyes as his

had not changed, yet

sponge to suck air better than it ever did before.') Rui clenched his fist. ('A disk form for aerodynamic maneuvering, a porous and hollow exterior to facilitate greater absorption of air not just to propel itself forward, but to increase the power of its acoustic absorption to become almost immune to sound attacks. It

techniques that even he, as modest and grounded as he was, prided himself in to be crushed so overwhelmingly. Its air and sound absorption properties made

Yet…