The Martial Unity

The audience watched the contestants fighting with shocked expressions.

Almost none of them were competitive!

It was terrifying to see what a single creature could do to Martial Artists of all kinds. There were only two Martial Squires out of the forty who were able to not get overwhelmed.

One was the reigning champion, Squire Meera. She had ended up getting locked in a stalemate with the abyssfeeder.

Their battle was hard to comprehend, it was almost incoherent. Both sides seemed to change rapidly, so much so that nobody could make sense of what was happening to them.

In comparison, the battle that Rui was undergoing was a lot more comprehensive.

He blasted away at the abysskeeper from afar with everything he had, refusing to allow it to come closer.

Rui narrowed his eyes as he realized that his tier Transverse Resonance was increasingly less effective with each attack. He knew that it was not going to last long based on the rate at which it was progressing.

Thankfully, it seemed as though its rate of adaptation against the powerful attack was lower in comparison. It appeared that the stronger the attack, the proportionally slower its progression was.

THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM!

Rui somersaulted backward as he launched three power tier four Transverse Resonance attacks in rapid succession.

BOOM!

The abyssfeeder quivered under the sheer amount of power that Rui was outputting.

It was as though it could hardly believe that a single Martial Squire could output such power!

Transverse Resonance tier four and tier five were already in the grade-ten territory, furthermore, they were amplified by the titanic power of Hypertrophic Surge.

On top of that, Rui was accurately nailing every single attack perfectly on the dot to ensure maximum impact. The ODA System of the Pathfinder was something that made the already daunting task of approaching Rui even more perilous.

That was why the fact that it continuously made progress against him was even more impressive.

It continuously focused more and more of its body mass at its core, shifting all vital and vulnerable tissue deep inside, while the tougher and harder tissue occupied the exteriors of the disk-shaped creature. The exterior looked extremely solid but in reality, it was light and extremely porous and web-like, perfect for absorbing air and sound and using it to fuel its own acceleration.

If not for the fact that Rui strategically used the ODA System to attack it in angles that were perpendicular to the direction that it wanted to go in, it would have been a lot more successful in using his power to accelerate towards him. However, Rui continuously used many tricks and tactics to slow it down.

Slowly but surely he was adapting to the adaptation of abysskeeper.

The only question was whether it was fast enough.

attack him from there. It would be unlikely that he would be able to switch to Nemean Blossom, or Weaving Blood

did, it would most likely be game over

eyes sharpened as he resolutely pushed himself even further. His movements became more and more efficient as

that he took to make it harder for

is not what makes absorbing them more difficult, not truly. He realized. What does

a wide attack was easier to absorb, less power focused across a much smaller area was much more difficult. The sheer amount of energy focused across a small area made it

way, he could reduce the energy he consumed, while also making it more difficult to absorb and negate his

and the abyssfeeder served as a measure of

distance was reduced, then it was only

BOOM BOOM BOOM!

continuously applied Gale Force Breathing and Outer

as the abyssfeeder resolutely followed. The predictive model that he was constructing allowed him to see what

his eyes as he ran calculations.

began reducing its disk size as it began squeezing even more mass into its super-dense core. It appeared that the primordial seed was so flexible that it could freely be squeezed into a small

BOOM BOOM BOOM!

shuddered as Rui unleashed his most

increasingly clear to those

"It's getting closer…"

one

"Do your best!"

of encouragement were just

Words.

impact reality; the

all the measures and tactics that Rui

good enough to

BADUMP!

so much as a ripple through the air as it

The time was nigh.

himself to the absolute limit,

WHOOSH!

Fifteen meters.

The abyssfeeder was arriving.

in his

BADUMP!

Ten meters.

His eyes intensified.

It was not over.

to let it

he let