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.

yet, that did not mean that

POW POW POW!

his gut, finding him away. The pain hypnotic technique had not been

he knew that was an illusion. Not just the pain, but the sheer speed of the

myself. His Martial Body is vastly more powerful than ours, but with

appeared that he was not

BAM

man could

slow. Why didn't Ieyasu

and

eyes widened as a realization struck him. 'Could it

down our perception of time," Ieyasu calmly clarified. "I peeked into your mind when he struck you with those blows, your thoughts became slow and

figured as much.'

what the Master had

memories of the past day while

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

you copy his techniques?' Rui glanced

simply shook his

suddenly accelerated before them. "We're

BAM BAM BAM!

Each blow was almost invisibly fast while their impacts seemed to strike like meteorites.

almost activated Weaving Blood out of sheer

subconscious recoil due to our mind's subconscious tendency

a more sophisticated application of the Illusionary Dragon's abilities. It blindly applied pain across the entire body

this case, although the pain was lesser, it was

Martial Seniors in

solid blow as Ieyasu launched a maneuver that covered all

THWACK!