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?

for it. They're making an efficient application of resources.' Rui realized. '…Am I

single tap. That was why he went for Neo Godspeed out of all the Metabody techniques, he needed speed

had put a lot of effort into his predictive

helpful,' He clenched his

the answer dawned upon him. '…Because it

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

clung to it even harder,' Rui realized. 'Predictive model this, predictive model that. Predictive model every single time. I have been

One that he had created back on Earth, it held an extremely special place in his heart. It was that that

very moment, Rui came arrived at a

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

the moment he threw it away, he felt his shoulders

every muscle in his body had relaxed. His joints had

This sensation…

a deep

system all this time. When was the last time he made a combat decision without the

was in the middle of the

'It's because this is a

right that he proved

at the three

single emotion reigned

One moment,

next moment, he faded out of