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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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

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pirouetted away from a direct charge, cleanly

make sure that the dragon expends more energy than I do.' Rui

partially activated the Reaper's Dew poison before activating Final Breathing, this was

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

profile of the creature that the Beggar's Sect's intelligence contained. It was not going to let him go. The only way this battle would end was

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

Sympathy would be extremely difficult to use in combat even without the sensory hamper. In these

in a good hit

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to the side rather than retreating away, making sure that

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

I'll need to

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 able to

It was categorically impossible.

And yet...

do it.' Rui grinned.

a wave

of pressure erupted from Rui's sheer

his circumstances. 'In order to create a predictive model, one 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

of excitement flashed in his mind. 'But... what if I predict the empirical data

could not observe his opponent collect the empirical data like he normally did, then he could predict the empirical data that he could not

much as eliminate all possibilities except for the truth.' Rui mused. 'Every time I sense danger, I know

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

time he sensed danger, but it 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 based on the many possible