The Martial Unity

The two of them ignored the pain as they recentered themselves, staring at their opponent.

'Ieyasu, listen to me, I have a plan,' Rui glanced at him.

The man glanced back at him silently.

'Unless you know of a way of breaking out of the spell of that technique, we need to find a way to compensate for it.' Rui explained. 'We can do that with long-range wide-area attacks, but if we spread it too then, it loses too much potency. The good part is that he's not sabotaging our spatial awareness by a large margin, probably because this is his limit without the Martial Heart and Mind. This means that possible actual distances between himself and us won't have too much of a variance. If we work well together, we can cover that entire area, and it won't matter whether he's sabotaging our spatial awareness or not.'

The basic idea of the plan was to use teamwork to account for sabotage to their spatial awareness and location-tracking senses. As long as they seamlessly timed and spaced their attacks together, they would be able to make sure that it didn't matter whether he marginally sabotaged their estimation of his location.

Regardless of whether he was slightly closer or further away than what they estimated, as long as they covered all possibilities together, it wouldn't matter

However, their teamwork needed to be beyond perfect to make sure that they covered all of the potential locations in their perception of where the Hypnomaster could actually be instead.

Their movements would need to be perfect fits with each other. Like pieces of a puzzle fitting together just perfectly well without any gaps between them to form a perfect image and shape.

Ordinarily, such teamwork only came with many years and decades of practice and experience together. It was not something that two Martial Seniors would have been able to develop on the spot.

'However, you can read my mind. And I can predict all of your Martial Art.' Rui conveyed to him. 'With the insights that we have into each other, we can develop an absolutely perfect synergy between us.'

Ieyasu simply stared at him.

'Er, take an offensive stance if you agree. A maneuvering stance if you're not against trying it out once. A defensive stance if you are against it.' Rui conveyed.

his stance, hopping lightly as

going to need close to medium-range offense for this idea. We'll also need to approach him in the

little strategizing

respond as he circled around the man, activating the Greater Phantomind

raised an eyebrow. "That particular style of misdirection reminds me of Reina. You must have

easily

man turned towards, Rui, pointedly ignoring Ieyasyu, as he grew fascinated with what he saw.

on Rui grew more intense. He recognized the

It evoked bad memories.

the technique

Zeamer's fascination increased

fixation on Rui followed

assassin. What a waste. Tsk, I should have never let her get

point that Rui's self-control failed

smirk emerged on

"Heh," Rui smiled.

moment, his eyes widened in shock as he

BOOM!

CRACK

A look of pure astonishment flashed across his face as

had successfully landed a blow on the

would break that finger," Ieyasu

hand. It was