The Martial Unity

There were plenty of things Rui had learned today. He learned that when a person abandons and sacrifices the prospects of winning, the prospects of actually inflicting damage on their opponents, all for the sake of stalling for ten minutes, it was pretty difficult to stop them from succeeding at that humble goal.

In a normal fight, they would die immediately after ten minutes, but not in this fight. In this fight, they would win if they succeeded.

He had been surprised that even Neo Godspeed and the predictive model together had been unable to weave past their attacks, but he also noticed that they had diluted their power and spread them wider. Yet it had done them good.

The reason for that was because it took less power to parry his charges away than to hurt him. They compensated for a speed gap with a large area of effect by sacrificing potency.

It was a good counter. They had adapted and evolved to him very well.

Rui froze.

Time slowed down to a crawl.

'They're adapting to me…?' His eyes widened as a profound realization hit him. 'Since when did my opponents adapt to me instead of the other way around?'

How had they been able to make more progress with adaptive evolution than he did?

He leaped away, putting enough distance between them as he studied the two gasping Martial Seniors. He was in the middle of an assassination attempt, yet he felt the need to take just a moment to understand what was happening.

He was positively in a better condition than they were, they had burned through much of their stamina, and they were having a hard time breathing with Breathing Crucifix.

Yet despite being in a better place, they were able to adapt to him more effectively than he did.

Why was that?

sacrificed everything that wasn't necessary for it. They're making an efficient application of resources.' Rui realized. '…Am I

kill them with a single tap. That was why he went for Neo Godspeed out of all the Metabody techniques,

top of that, he had put a lot

hasn't been that helpful,' He clenched

dawned upon him. '…Because it isn't the best

matter was, that his opponents had essentially built a huge barrier between himself and them, and they

harder,' Rui realized. 'Predictive model this, predictive model that. Predictive

pattern recognition system was his original baby. One that he had created back on Earth, it held an extremely special place in his heart. It was that that love that had blinded him. It had blinded him from the fact that it wasn't the all-powerful

moment, Rui came arrived at

want to kill Chairman Deacon…' Rui gritted his teeth as he clenched his fists. Just the thought of doing

threw it away, he felt

as though every muscle in his body had relaxed. His joints had loosened, allowing him to move freely like he

This sensation…

inhaled a deep breath. 'I

system all this time. When was the last time

to its full depth. Despite the fact that he was in the middle

'It's because this is a pivotal

was only right that he proved it

the

single emotion reigned in his

One moment,

next moment, he faded