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Instead, he remained where he stood, crouching as he brought his hands and legs closer to him, making him smaller.

He reduced the feasible avenue attacks.

As a speedster, Master Grais primarily targeted the more vulnerable parts of the body since he lacked the power to do damage to particularly tough and well-shielded parts of the body.

His expression grew more severe as he understood what Rui was trying to do.

'It's an invitation…' His eyes narrowed as he stared at the prodigiously young Master. '…and a trap.'

For a moment, the two of them simply stared at each other.

As it was right now, Rui had exhausted more energy, but Master Grais had taken more energy.

However, as they exchanged gazes, a mutual understanding came between them.

A battle of attrition favored Rui.

The longer the battle continued, the more Rui grew familiar with his opponent and the more he adaptively evolved. His SOUL and predictive models only grew stronger and stronger, while Master Grais' speed only went downhill.

At some point, Rui would come to outmaneuver him if the battle continued for long. The fact that Rui was able to keep up without the Metabody System when he needed it before was proof of that.

If he wanted to win, he would have to do so very soon.

Rui had already foreseen this even before he used Neo Godspeed. He made sure to hurt Master Grais enough such that the decline of his speed was all but guaranteed before adopting a strategy that forced Master Grais to come to him rather than Rui adopting the role of the chaser.

"Well played, Void Prince," Master Grais snorted. "I accept your invitation."

His hand sharpened, straight as an arrow, as he finally activated his third system of thought. 'Lightning Spear Jab.' His eyes flared with power as he surged with power.

It was an offensive system of thought that relied on scanning the opponent's body for microstructure weaknesses across the entire body before eventually adaptively altering the form of the attack to inflict as much damage as possible.

and direction of attack all

blocks was easier when done along the grain

had imperfections that could be exploited if one was precise and accurate

was his

sooner than anyone had

WHOOSH

Master

SPLAT!

widened as his attack pierced through Rui's torso in between his

gazed into Rui's eyes with shock.

appeared on

had allowed the attack to impale him thoroughly without resistance. Rui tightened his back and abdomen

his tactic all

"I have you now."

the Martial Master's spine as he struggled to escape. Yet his speed-oriented body

—BZZT!

effect weakened the elder Martial

as he

face what was

the Martial Master had ever

with blows one after another, bludgeoning him black and blue. Each blow was empowered with the full power of

guarded with one arm, trying to inflict as much damage to Rui's vitals with his

was

with pain even as his vision

was locked in place, there was no need to continue employing anti-speed

of Rui's blows

the Martial Master with as much power

the end came