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

didn't need power, he could kill them with a single tap. That was why he went for Neo Godspeed

he had put a

it hasn't been that helpful,' He

as the answer dawned upon him. '…Because it

fact of the matter was, that his opponents had essentially

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 the pattern recognition system too hard all this time. There are many

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 wish-granting superpower that

Rui came arrived

Chairman Deacon…' Rui gritted his teeth as he clenched his fists.

moment he threw it away, he

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

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 most

Rui's eyes softened with realization. 'It's because this is a pivotal

was only right that he

at the three Martial Senior

single emotion reigned in

One moment, he stood

he faded out