The Martial Unity

Furthermore, there was no point in trying to kill each other now.

The battle was over. The core reasons for their bloodlust; the desire to break through, had also gone.

If anything, Rui valued him. He was probably the one man who would never be anything less than extremely difficult for Rui to defeat, no matter how many times they fought.

Rui's Martial Art was such that once he fought someone, they would never be able to defeat him ever again under ordinary circumstances. This happened with Kane, who lost to him even on a battlefield where he essentially had limitless stamina for a powerful grade-ten technique fueled by the environment around them. Not even such overwhelming situational advantages could allow Kane to defeat Rui.

The VOID algorithm when adapted was too powerful, and it never forgot.

Yet, against Ieyasu, this was not strictly true especially since the man did not have any patterns. A feat that Rui still did not entirely understand, though he did get the core reason for why it was necessary.

'A mirror that bears its own image can never truly reflect any other.'

It meant that Ieyasu needed to abandon who he was, in a sense, to pursue his Martial Path.

Yet a Martial Path was a reflection of who one was. It was a confusing paradox with only one solution.

It meant that his very psychology must have been extremely warped around others for such a Martial Path to manifest from it. Rui could not even begin to imagine what he had been through to develop such a Martial Path.

make improvements and grow stronger. A strange thought entered his mind when Rui remembered that

truly was the case. In fact, it would actually be beneficial if that truly was the case. He could present Ieyasu to Master Uma and

plummeted as he

pay. But the time for that

business considering fighting and beating a

at a

queue for matters that he needed to attend to.

going to get rid of Chairman Deacon. When he first left the Shionel Confederation,

decade ahead of him. He had simply focused on becoming a Martial

three years. He

the difficulty of taking himdown.' Rui's mind entered a state of rational

to overcome a problem, he needed to ascertain its

a monumentally difficult task, but how difficult? What were the various impediments that would prevent him from doing so? Even if he did succeed, he needed to consider where there were there outcomes of killing Chairman Deacon that would be so unfavorable that they would

Deacon and was identified as the culprit. That was highly undesirable. A more unlikely one was suicidal measures

too much

Detailed high-quality strategic intelligence on

enough, he

Union. Guildmaster Bradt.