The Martial Unity

Rui and Ieyasu didn't need any encouragement. The two of them had already had a plan. They lashed out at Master Zeamer with their full power, hoping to be able to pressure him so that he couldn't avoid them nearly as easily.

WHOOSH

Master Zeamer cleanly shifted away from both their attacks. The first attempt failed, yet neither of them was discouraged. They immediately followed suit, refusing to give him even a moment to breathe. Their raw speed actually exceeded his, catching up in just a brief moment.

'Oho...' Master Zeamer watched with interest as their steps synced, their attacks converged on with blazing speed, filling in the gaps of each other's attacks.

WHOOSH!

Master Zeamer avoided a diagonal kick from Ieyasu and a double strike from Rui.

Or so he thought,

FLICK

Rui's knuckle trimmed a bit of his long flowing beard with sheer friction, narrowly missing his head. They failed in actually landing a strike on the Martial Master, yet both of them only grew more driven as they pushed forward with greater vigor.

They watched each other more carefully, Ieyasu kept track of Rui's movement decisions from his mind while Rui predicted every movement that Ieyasu made. With this insight, they began adjusting better and better each time.

With each attack, their transitions and follow-ups grew smoother. The gap between each combo grew shorter and shorter.

Their steps, the moments of the inception of their attacks and maneuvers all grew increasingly aligned as they grew more and more accustomed to working with each other against a common opponent.

'Oho...' Master Zeamer's eyes widened as their timing and placement grew to reach a critical threshold.

BAM BAM!

Master Zeamer blocked their attacks for the first time, unable to casually evade them as he did before.

that did not mean that they were close

POW POW POW!

into his gut, finding him

just the pain, but the sheer speed of the man's attacks

than ours, but with a Martial

was not

BAM BAM BAM

five consecutive blows across Ieyasu's body before the man could defend even a

slow. Why didn't Ieyasu react

extremely dull and dragged. Ieyasu's expression grew grave with pain as he leaped back, grouping with

widened as a realization struck

slowing down our perception of time," Ieyasu calmly clarified. "I peeked into your mind when

as much.'

recalled what the Master had told

of the past day while I froze

Heart and Mind, then it stands to reason he can speed up our perception of time, making

copy his techniques?' Rui

man simply shook his

Zeamer suddenly accelerated before them. "We're just

BAM BAM BAM!

pummeling them with incredibly swift and excruciating blows. Each blow was almost invisibly fast while their impacts seemed to strike like meteorites. Rui felt as though

activated Weaving Blood

getting us to subconscious recoil due

applied pain across the entire body without

case, although the pain was lesser, it was harder to ignore, requiring a much stronger

were the youngest Martial Seniors in

with a solid blow as Ieyasu launched a maneuver that covered

THWACK!