The Martial Unity

Chapter 2088 Deceptive Trap

Master Vertol's true offense was not bullrushes or charges.

No.

Those were red herrings.

By constantly charging in over and over, he tricked his opponents into believing that he was a Martial Artist who relied on linear momentum to inflict damage with heavy collisions. His systems of thought relied on constantly conditioning his opponents to be wary of his bullrushes while writing them off as his sole offense.

It was a lie.

He grinned as the two Martial Masters blasted around on the battlefield, grappling with each other.

CLASP!

He pulled Rui into a deeper, deadlier embrace, using all the power he was able to muster in his arms and legs. By further pulling him in, he also subjected Rui to the Yin-Yang Shield, which had now become a full-contact battering ram.

BOOOM!!!

the full power of Yin-Yang Shield over longer

Blossom, which was at half power, and Flux Earther dispersing the impact. A half-powered Hypertrophic Surge helped him fight back against his opponent's immense resistance, yet this

focused on the most, his power output was extremely high, far higher than Rui as he had

struggled, yet Master Vertol was definitely more comfortable. The Yin-Yang Shield became surprisingly lethal when used in grappling; that was why Master Vertol had spent more than a century refining his grappling trap. Once he snared his opponents

him to maximize the probability of successfully grappling with his opponents by scrupulously evaluating their reactions, their attention, and their focus. It also allowed him to find the most optimal timing for springing his grappling trap so that he could ensure that the probability of failing to trap them

painstakingly and tediously burned into muscle memory and pure reflex to minimize the probability that it would be foreseen before it was too late. The lack of conscious intentionality behind the motions was the reason that the SOUL model's

physical intent at its inception, yet he was unable to read their minds to learn of strategies or their systems of

That wasn't all.

CLASP

Rui exerted himself to the maximum. Yet, Master Vertol even had a system of thought

his opponent's system of thought allowed him to grapple in a manner that was most adaptively evolved against his

the centuries of deep experience in grappling, the systems of thought specialized for grappling, and actual grappling techniques were strong advantages that gave Master Vertol an

other hand, Rui could predict his moves well ahead of time. He also dispersed much of the man's output over time with his defense. In addition,

probably would have broken some bones under

weren't the only cards he

BZZZT

of the technique, reducing their power. Master Vertol gritted his teeth as the two of them rolled around heaven and earth, furiously

Rui was even when he had fallen

for full-contact grappling, Rui demonstrated that they were so powerful that they didn't