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?

their goal and cleanly sacrificed everything that wasn't necessary for it. They're making an

That was why he went for Neo Godspeed out of all the Metabody techniques, he needed speed more than power and

he had put a lot of effort into

helpful,'

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

the matter was, that his opponents had essentially built a huge barrier between himself and them, and they shifted it to keep up with his

purely a reactive defensive game on their part, the predictive model could not fix his problems. '…And that's the difference between us. They cut away and sacrificed what couldn't fix their problems while I clung to it even harder,' Rui realized. 'Predictive model this, predictive model that. Predictive model every single time. I have been clinging to

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 wish-granting

moment, Rui came arrived

need to abandon the pattern recognition system if I want to kill Chairman Deacon…' Rui gritted his teeth as he clenched his fists. Just the thought of doing

threw it away, he felt

his body had relaxed. His joints had loosened, allowing him to move freely like he

This sensation…

Rui inhaled a deep breath.

to the pattern recognition system all this time. When was the

full depth. Despite the fact that he was in the middle of the most important

'It's because this is

that he proved it was worth

glanced at the three Martial

reigned in his

moment, he

next moment, he faded out