The Martial Unity

Even if she said that, and was angry, Rui was actually quite grateful. She had helped him come across an idea to strengthen his Weaving Blood technique, and he looked forward to actually trying it out.

Currently, he mostly sacrificed strength, speed, and stamina when using Weaving Blood for extra healing. Fundamentally he burned energy reserves, but burning energy reserves required him to reduce his energy consumption, which reduced his energy output in the form of lowered strength and speed.

However, his defense did not suffer all that much.

His passive defensive techniques like Adamant Reforging were completely unaffected by Weaving Blood. His active defensive techniques like Flux Earther and Inner Divergence did not suffer all that much because they were not super energy consumptive in the first place.

Thus his defense as a whole was barely affected by Weaving Blood.

However, with this poison, he could create a way to empower his Weaving Blood at the cost of defense and durability. He could apply small doses of the poison to his outer flesh, causing it to

Of course, this wasn't something that he would do every time, or even sometimes. However, if he ever came across a Martial Artists where he truly needed his healing and regeneration skills more than anything, then he had no problem using it in such circumstances.

More than anything, it helped him make his first step in fulfilling Project Metabody much more fulfilling. If he could tap into this idea, he could fully be able to acquire a Martial body centered around healing.

Rui glanced at Squire Herea with gratitude, confusing her.

"I apologize for that," He replied. "I am grateful, nonetheless."

Suddenly, his pressure and aura flared.

An immense amount of peril radiated from him, so much so that it seemed to grind the very atmosphere between them.

"Allow me to fight you with everything I have,"

Rui raised his hand, showing his knuckle to her.

Her eyes widened as she saw that the area that she had poisoned was already returning to its original skin tone!

Somehow, Rui was able to deal with the symptoms caused by her poison. It was an incredible achievement, but it was one that she didn't quite understand.

How was he doing that?

Did he somehow already have some amount of resistance to the poison that she was using?

That sounded too absurd. Martial Artists generally did not go out of their way to gain resistance and immunity to random poisons. There were far too many, and while it was possible to gain resistance against broader categories of poisons, that was even more difficult, a process that took years.

Yet, here Rui was, able to handle the main kind of poison that she employed in combat.

Yet Rui did not even give her any time to think about it. He rushed forward with a surge of energy.

BAM!!!

A powerful Flowing Canon, armed with the power of Outer Convergence and Reverberating Lance crashed into her guard!

CRACK!

She gritted her teeth as the sheer impact cracked her bone.

('Her defense is quite weak, I'm guessing she relies on her lethal offense ending the game against her opponent because they can cause too much damage against her.

In a way, an extremely lethal offense could serve as a powerful defense. Her poison techniques were powerful enough to either take her opponents down quickly or deter them from going anywhere near her.

POW POW POW!

Rui pummeled her with powerful blows, uncaring for his greening hands.

He was probably the first Martial Artist that she had ever met that made contact with her so carelessly, and didn't seem to suffer any consequences at all.

Each blow rattled her defense.

What was probably truly astonishing to her was that his Martial body seemed to be too overpowered.

His raw power and speed were high despite his incredible ability to heal from the damage caused by her poison.

Normally, Rui would have low power and speed when using Weaving Blood, but in this case, his energy reserves and stamina were being bolstered due to the fact that the autophagy activated with Hungry Pain was eating up the cells killed by the poison before quickly converting them into energy, compounds, and nutrition.

That was why he could employ his power and speed more unscrupulously in this battle compared to his normal battles.

However, his defense was weakened due to his passive durability being lowered due to the poison killing cells in his outer flesh.

Had she mounted any offense on him at that point in time, it would have been effective, but her problem was that that was her offense, she did not use anything other than poison, and that technique alone was supposed to be quite lethal to normal Martial Artists.

Unfortunately, it was ineffective against Rui, he simply could not be bested so easily.

That left her with simply no cards to play whatsoever. And while she tried, the battle ended much more abruptly than she had thought it would.

POW!

A swift kick to the jaw ended the fight, knocking her out unconscious.

"Winner; Guardian Falken!"

Rui nodded, before leaving the arena without paying her a second look. He had nothing else to do with her, after all.

Instead, he was more interested in the gains that he had made while fighting her. It wasn't very often that he made epiphanies in the middle of a battle but it appeared that each and every single one of them was quite valuable and significant.

In a way, the battle was a filter against bad ideas. After all, only the truly good ideas were so good that they could drag away your attention for just the briefest of moments. Rui intended to go all and fight all the Martial Squires that he had taken note of in the previous battle one by one, before setting out to explore this new idea that he had come up with.

('Ah…') He paused as he turned back. ('I should ask her for the details first.')