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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to delve into uncharted area as much as possible. He would rather face a dragon than an unsensable unknown environment because Primordial

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a direct charge,

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

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

before his eyes narrowed. "Now then, time to work towards victory rather than just avoiding

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

as he avoided yet another blow. 'Phantomind Void is not advisable without a good grasp of environmental

difficult to use in combat even without the sensory hamper. In these circumstances, it

attacks to pepper it. Or get in a good hit on an extremely vital spot with Flowing Canon or Transverse

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

and orientation.' Rui tutted. 'Since I can't sense it,

eyes narrowed. '...Or I'll need to

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 running on all the processors and servers in the facility would be

It was categorically impossible.

And yet...

Rui grinned. 'I

wave

pressure erupted from

have that empirical data since I cannot observe my opponent. I can only sense the vague direction of

of excitement flashed in his mind. 'But... what if

he normally did, then he could predict the empirical

so much as predict as much as eliminate all possibilities except for the truth.' Rui mused. 'Every time I sense danger, I know it's an attack. However, there are limited possibilities

had claw attacks of all kinds, wing attacks, tail attacks, jaw attacks, and

was not too much to keep track of. As long as he kept track of all of them, he would be able to develop many possible predictive models