The Martial Unity

Rui winced.

He knew what he had to do.

Yet, the thought of doing it in his current state was painful, to say the least.

Yet he did it nonetheless.

'Temporal Disharmony,' His expression grew strained as he employed the Hypnomatrix yet again. Yet that wasn't all.

"Speed Void."

With both anti-speed hypnotic and domain techniques, the man's very existence had been downgraded to a lower plan of speed. He appeared to be a sloth and a tortoise rolled up in one.

BOOOOOM!!!

Rui blasted his body with the most powerful Hypertrophic Surge-enhanced Flowing Canon he could possibly muster. Just a moment before the impact, he breathed in tremendously, dispelling the domain in the process but giving him a huge surge of power at the moment of impact.

It was the principle of Fire Breathing.

Rui had come to decode this powerful breathing technique naturally over the many years he had been practicing breathing techniques.

The resulting impact was the single most powerful punch that Rui had thrown in his entire life.

BOOM BOOM BOOM!!

The assassin was propelled across the forest, creating enormous gaping hill-sized craters. Because his perception of time and speed were hampered, he was unable to defend in time. Rui knew that his passive defense and durability were minimal at best.

Now, his condition was at least as bad, if not worse, than Rui's.

'I'd be dead without the Hypnomatrix, Metabody, and Yggdrasil System,' Rui mused as he prepared himself.

The three systems intersected in the VOID algorithm while also being their own groups of techniques, and they had saved Rui many times in this battle. While the VOID algorithm was still the most flexible and powerful, it also required the most amount of time and preparation.

These three techniques could be executed instantly and oppressed his opponents very hard, allowing him to take them down incredibly swiftly by relying on openings created by the hypnotic techniques and domains while he exploited them to the fullest with the Metabody System.

a healing factor that was only a fraction as good as his,

to go,' He fell to one knee as he panted heavily trying to

sense of peril arrived out

made him

SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT!

Rui grimaced as painful gashes appeared across his entire body despite a last-second

glanced up at his new

hooded woman stood before

arms were raised before

hands were open, and her fingers

more than she did a Martial Artist. He hadn't even understood what she had done to

he did hear

SZZZZZZZZZ

distinctly familiar sound rang around the forest they

His eyes widened. "Wires?"

my previous victims

on detail as he noticed thin strings all around him

not all of

burst into action abruptly,

SZZZZZZZZ!

to pick up several strings converging on

THWOOM THWOOM THWOOM!!

attacks, trying to curb as many

SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT!

teeth as his eyes

'Breathing Crucifix.'

the strings could converge on him omnidirectionally, he could not avoid them. If he was going to

"It's useless."

as several more layers of strings lashed

SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT!

that the string attacks had not lost an iota

they had

some defensive-heaven bending, Flux Earther, and Nemean Blossom, he would