The Martial Unity

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Rui evaded yet another attack from the dragon. 'Think.'

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He somersaulted away, narrowly avoiding a swift claw swipe.

'I'll need to prioritize acute problems that threaten defeat before tackling chronic hurdles towards victory.' Rui thought as he compiled a list of all problems before sorting them in a priority list based on this criteria.

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He evaded yet another lateral swipe, crouching with a split.

'First priority, minimize the probability of environmental disruption.' He thought. 'The greater the area I cover with my evasive maneuvering, the greater the probability I run into a sturdy tree or another beast, or a mountain that hampers my path. Therefore, I need to minimize the area I cover.'

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"RROOOOAAR!" The dragon raced after him in frustration.

'Do not cover new ground. Stick within a certain amount of area that I have already maneuvered through before and know that I can. This reduces the probability of environmental disruption by an order of magnitude.' Rui concluded as he immediately computed a solution for the environmental problem.

By sticking to known and vetted areas, free of environmental hurdles, he could reduce the probability of a clash with his surroundings. It also helped that the dragon leveled the area.

'I could also launch more omnidirectional attacks to level things myself, but that's far too energy-consuming. Let the dragon do all the work for you. That is optimal efficiency.' Rui's mind swiftly processed through as it mitigated the highest priority issue.

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of wide claw swipes, because of the size of the dragon, he needed to maneuver more, yet he made sure not to delve into uncharted area as much as possible. He would rather face a dragon than an unsensable unknown environment because Primordial Instinct could only help

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pirouetted away from a direct charge, cleanly

make sure that the dragon expends more energy than I do.' Rui noted. 'Use the stamina metabody to a

the Reaper's Dew poison before activating Final Breathing, this was enough to alleviate his

before his eyes narrowed. "Now then, time to work towards victory

much was clear. The dragon's pursuit of him was obsessive, which matched the personality profile of the creature that the Beggar's Sect's

viable.' Rui tutted as he avoided yet another blow. 'Phantomind Void is not

be extremely difficult to use in combat even without the sensory hamper.

rely on normal attacks to pepper it. Or get in

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another attack, swerving to the side rather than retreating away, making sure that

know its exact position and orientation.' Rui tutted. 'Since I can't sense it, I'll either need

narrowed. '...Or I'll need to create a

would have laughed at him. Even his research team would have burst out laughing at the idea of applying the VOID algorithm to an opponent that could not even be perceived. Not even the cutting-edge AI software that they employed in their labs

It was categorically impossible.

And yet...

do it.' Rui grinned. 'I will do

wave of determination wrung the very

pressure erupted from Rui's

needs a lot of empirical combat data on the opponent. However, I do not have that empirical data since I cannot observe my opponent. I can only sense the vague direction of incoming danger. Thus, it is logical to conclude that a predictive model cannot be concluded due

'But... what if I predict the empirical data that is needed

his opponent collect the empirical data like he normally did, then

I sense danger, I know it's an attack. However, there are limited possibilities as to what

all kinds, wing attacks, tail attacks, jaw attacks,

was not too much to keep track of. As long as he kept track of all