The Martial Unity

The difference was startling.

Squire Frinjschia's eyes narrowed as she felt a profound sense of peril unlike anything she had ever felt.

She always felt the faint pressure of death from particularly powerful Martial Squires. Even if she did not mind dying, her body was still cognizant of the threat of death that particularly lethal Martial Squires and Martial Artists of a higher Realm exerted on her.

Yet, this was different.

She felt a bone-chilling terror from Rui as if death was not the worst he could inflict on her.

Her instincts could sense it clearly.

The perils the depth of his eyes conveyed were beyond her fathoming

Instantly, her wariness spiked as she honed her focus.

He took a neutral stance, just like she did. The two faced each other in close quarters, facing each other eye to eye.

"Begin!"

She did not even hesitate. Instantly, she lashed out at him with her remarkable agility, throwing a number of jabs at his vitals.

POW POW POW! WHOOSH!

Rui dispersed their impacts only to have his own blow dodged with ease.

BAM BAM BAM! WHOOSH!

He narrowly turned, managing to block and disperse the impacts of her strikes with Flux Earther yet again, only to have his own blow dodged.

witness it. Landing a single blow on her was quite difficult

from

WHOOSH!

eyes widened as her blow crashed into an empty

BAM!

crashed into her, pummeling

this momentum, yet it appeared that she was too

prince than against me.' Rui noted as he continued

gained an inkling of what he intended to do. he thought he had hidden his intentions well behind a Mind Mask, but perhaps

from her movements when he

to me, then don't mind if I come to you.' Rui

hadn't been merely going back and forth with her. His predictive model had already made substantial progress

BAM!

collided straight into her face with unerring accuracy as he launched

'I thought I dodged at

Something was off.

of threat than he did before.

a hint of his capability for extreme speed in the second round yesterday. She knew that his current capabilities were far

like Rui, she had already determined that taking him down quickly in

some reason, she found

clenched. 'Getting bogged

up her mind, rushing in before launching a barrage of strikes and blows. Her balled fists morphed into knuckle punches as she aimed to inflict greater damage with each strike and make it harder to disperse her

blocked all of them with

CRACK!

managed to cleanly break one of her knuckles with a

was far from

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

to unfold.