The Martial Unity

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.

direction of attack all needed to

wooden blocks was easier when done along

could be exploited if one was precise

was his most

came sooner than anyone had

WHOOSH

an instant, Master Grais arrived before

SPLAT!

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

gazed into Rui's eyes with shock.

appeared on

thoroughly without resistance. Rui tightened his back and abdomen muscles, locking the man's arms within his body, refusing to let

his

"I have you now."

to escape. Yet his

—BZZT!

weakened the elder Martial Master's

grave light as he realized that there was no

what

down, unlike anything the Martial

black and blue. Each blow

inflict as much damage to Rui's

was

with pain even as his

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

with excruciating agony as each of Rui's blows set his nervous system on fire,

as he continued blasting the Martial Master with as much power he could possibly muster,

the end