The Martial Unity

BADUMP!

Rui's arm flew across the colosseum arena.

The air plummeted.

A vague impending sense of despair and doom radiated across the battle arena.

None of the contestants had failed to notice despite their own losing battles. Many of the contestants had been disqualified, having been saved from absolute death. Those who still held on were severely wounded, even more so than Rui.

Yet, it appeared that Rui followed suit.

The colosseum was silent. Even the noise from the other battles seemed to melt away into the background as an overwhelming sense of defeat seemed to fill up the spectator stands.

That was when it happened.

THUD!

The abyssfeeder that took Rui's arm plummeted to the ground, forming a heavy crater when it landed.

BADUMP!

Everybody watched, shocked.

And confused.

The creature took off Rui's arm in the clash, why had it suddenly collapsed?

No one knew.

It began shifting in its crater, quivering as its body began shifting.

It was healing.

Or it would have, had it been allowed to.

BOOM!

Rui broke the silence as he blasted it with a tier-five Transverse Resonance.

A solemn expression emerged on his face.

He faced the abyssfeeder head-on.

words escaped his

"Mind wins."

through the fog of defeat as he made his declaration to

upon every ounce of

His eyes sharpened.

as it

Yet it bled.

to care. A glint of madness flashed across his eyes as his offense grew even

Rui went into a frenzy as he unleashed every ounce of

figure, his

emotion radiated from

Frustration.

It was incomprehensible.

They didn't understand.

What happened?

could such a clear defeat morph into such a

was the frustration

kind of Martial Artist grew frustrated after

Martial Masters understood the

close. Master Deivon

cross the precipice to a higher Realm. Master Gremingar shook

Carian closed his eyes. The Martial Heart

Uma stared at him impassively,

happened. Unlike the spectators, the truth

Master Gremingar narrowed his eyes. That single attack did more damage to the abyssfeeder than all of his previous attacks. It did more damage

impact all the way to the core of

was that the abyssfeeder had been adapting to Rui's long-range attack by protecting all of the vital tissue of its body by shoving it deep

not the only ones who knew this. Rui was the only other

he had capitalized on

distance. He had continued making it harder and harder for the abyssfeeder to

continued shifting more of its vital tissues to the core of the body while the exteriors became freer to absorb the sound

the perfect

He had known that.

it to continue using that adaptation with even more

waiting for the moment the abyssfeeder would inevitably cross the distance between

been for

clashed, he had launched his most powerful Flowing Canon throwing as much raw power in a single strike as he

it wasn't the power that he

was where