The Martial Unity

The moment the battle shifted to that of one between speeders, rui was on a timer. He needed to get the battle done as quickly as possible because it was not something that he could afford to prolong too much.

Unlike Master Grais, this was not something that could be prolonged too much. He immediately rushed in to blast his opponent and end the battle as soon as possible. WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH

Master Grais evaded a flurry of blinding blows, one after the other.

Alas, it was not as easy as he had hoped.

POW

One of Rui's strikes crashed into his face.

His eyes widened, stunned. In the depths of Rui's eyes stirred an endless darkness.

A void.

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His expression darkened as he barely managed to block the swift blow that blasted into his face.

It wasn't that Rui had gotten stronger.

No.

He was reading Master Grais better.

"You may be able to hide your telltale signs, but you cannot hide your active patterns."

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The master gritted his teeth as he bore Rui's onslaught.

The only reason that he did not break bones then and there was because rui had lost power to achieve greater speed.

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"Rgh." Master Grais leaped away from Rui to put some distance between them.

eyes as a mutual understanding flashed

Master Grais understood that there

your power wears out." The

that he was right as far as that

gaining the upper hand with Neo Godspeed, then he would undoubtedly be losing it to his opponent

was on

Grais watched him

for the critical

was a smile emerge on Rui's

very limit of his ability to adaptively evolve. His eyes widened at

the moments I feel most alive can teach me something about who I

pushed to his limits. His eyes lit up as he felt profoundly euphoric. He had taken the first

it was a step in the

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grimmer as Rui pummeled him hard on

Rui's attacks only grew stronger, but unfortunately, he continued to suffer damage from his opponent as

Speed Void, Temporal Disharmony, and Rui's own Neo Godspeed was so great that his Martial Mind was able to make for

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put as much distance between himself; alas, Rui wasn't

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Blasts at the Master, guided by the Void Pathfinder. They

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his eyes never

They were waiting.

few

wrong in his estimates, able to accurately gauge the time that Rui had left in his state based on the physiological strain that was clearly evident to the power senses of

as close as possible. He

Metabody System ended and the battle hadn't, Master Grais

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his opponent did his best to ensure that they didn't meet. Long-range power was usually weaker, which was

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managed to nail him with

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attack fractured bones in his body, reducing his combat