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.

escaped

"Mind wins."

defeat as he made his declaration

as he called upon every

His eyes sharpened.

as it pulled

Yet it bled.

flashed

as Rui went into a frenzy as he unleashed every ounce of power onto a crippled

figure, his

emotion

Frustration.

It was incomprehensible.

They didn't understand.

What happened?

a clear defeat

was even more incomprehensible was the frustration that was visible on his

Martial Artist grew frustrated after they

understood the true depths of that

close. Master

to cross the precipice to

Master Carian closed his eyes. The Martial Heart

stared at him

the spectators, the

before his arm was taken off, he struck the abyssfeeder with an uppercut. Master Gremingar narrowed his eyes. That single attack did more damage to the abyssfeeder than all of his previous

used vibrations to permeate the impact all the way to the core of the creature. Master Carian mused. Ordinarily, that

been adapting to Rui's long-range attack by protecting all of

not the only ones who knew this. Rui was the only other one who had also recognized the

had

launching more attacks from a distance. He had continued making it harder and harder for the abyssfeeder to absorb the

more of its vital tissues to the core of the body while the exteriors became freer to absorb the sound through acoustic

perfect counter to Rui's

He had known that.

it to continue using that

abyssfeeder would inevitably

had been

powerful Flowing Canon throwing as much raw power in a single strike as he

power that

was where that power