The Martial Unity

The many spectators watched, shell-shocked, as Rui experienced a mysterious yet enormous surge of combat power. His speed and power were merely a minute fraction of the Gatekeeper's, yet he was somehow able to evade and even attack his opponent.

Yet even as he dazzled everybody with his almost magical ability to evade, he hadn't changed their outlook on the outcome of the battle.

There was one fact of the matter that killed any chance of victory for him in their eyes.

He had yet to so much as even hurt his opponent while the Gatekeeper continued to ravage.

Not for lack of trying.

Regardless, a single truth had become clear to each and every single one of them.

The battle had reached its twilight.

Nothing short of a miracle would be enough for Rui to seize victory under these circumstances.

POW POW POW!

He launched a short, swift barrage of blows on the Gatekeeper's jaw, instantly leaping away swiftly to evade the retaliation.

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rui grimaced as the destructive shockwave battered him with wounds despite a maximum Nemean Blossom. He immediately leaped back towards the Gatekeeper even as a maximum Weaving Blood healed his wounds, albeit slower than before.

WHOOSH

He spun, evading an astronomical blow from the Gatekeeper, simultaneously landing his own.

BAM!

The Gatekeeper didn't so much as budge. He didn't even bother defending against Rui's pathetic attacks, for his own had already been launched hurtling towards Rui.

WHOOSH!

Rui somersaulted, landing away, only to find that the Gatekeeper had already arrived with his astronomical speed, ready to pummel him with a powerful blow.

All within Rui's prediction.

WHOOSH

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the destructive shockwave caught up with him even after he evaded the attack, battering him once

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

leaped away dodging blow after blow after blow, barely avoiding being utterly demolished by

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

power. Each attack instantly carved out craters spanning many kilometers

utterly destroy Rui's body, Nemean

attack after attack against Rui with blinding speed and

one of them struck

that, and he would mistime the evasion, causing the attack to strike him successfully. The faster one's cognition was the

a microsecond too early, then the Gatekeeper could reactively change the trajectory of the

microsecond too late, then he would have been

had an extremely minute window to dodge the predicted

accurately over and

second he made a mistake, he would lose

Temporal Disharmony reducing his perception of time and increasing the size of that window, as well as Speed Void reducing the sheer speed of his movements, not even the full might of Rui's pattern recognition model in conjugation with maximum Neo Godspeed would have

maximum Nemean Blossom and maximum Weaving Blood constantly protecting him, he would have long succumbed to the destructive

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

three evaded attacks as

BAM!

much as displace his

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH

the three

A feint.

POW POW POW!

squeeze in a swift flurry of strikes to the back of the man's head

WHOOSH!

yet Primordial Instinct had

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH

one after the other, kicking off

BAM!