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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maneuver more, yet he made sure not to delve into uncharted area as much as possible. He would rather face

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a direct charge, cleanly avoiding

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

before activating Final Breathing, this was enough to alleviate his

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

pursuit of him was obsessive, which matched the personality profile of the creature that the Beggar's Sect's intelligence contained.

is... not viable.' Rui tutted as he avoided yet another blow. 'Phantomind Void is not advisable without a good grasp

Death's Sympathy would be extremely difficult to use in combat even without the sensory hamper. In these circumstances, it

rely on normal attacks to pepper it. Or get in a good hit on an extremely

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the side rather than retreating away,

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

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

team would have burst out laughing at the idea of applying the VOID algorithm to an opponent that could not even be perceived.

It was categorically impossible.

And yet...

it.' Rui grinned. 'I will

taut as a wave of

amount of pressure erupted from Rui's

'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

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

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

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

kinds, wing

danger, but it was not too much to keep track of. As long as he kept track of all