Chapter 2220 Overcome Prediction
It wasn't that Rui knew for a fact that Master Kaijin was stronger than him. It was just a gut instinct that he had already been warned to not trust in the Master Realm. After all, Martial Masters were unfathomable beings in the complexity of their power.
Yet, despite that, it was hard for Rui to ignore his instincts in this matter.
The man had an overwhelming, thick, and suffocating aura.
Almost as if he was a fortress looming over his hapless opponents.
He was undoubtedly a striking-oriented Martial Artist. However, Rui was unsure whether he leaned more defensive or offensive. He would have to find out in battle.
"Not coming?" Master Kaijin raised an eyebrow. "In that case..."
His eyes sharpened.
The air grew more perilous.
It happened far quicker than Rui could have ever imagined.
WHOOSH!
In the blink of an eye, he had already arrived before Rui. A palm jab flew towards Rui at a blurringly high speed, threatening to take his head off.
It was within Rui's prediction.
WHOOSH!
"Oh?" Master Kaijin raised an eyebrow as Rui evaded the jab with the slightest sidestep. Yet, he was undeterred.
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!
A flurry of powerful palm jabs surged forward, threatening to impale Rui. Yet, they couldn't even come close to touching him as he swayed just the right amount to evade each blow.
He had already formed a predictive model of his opponent, allowing him to foresee his incoming attacks based on prior passive pattern data collected by the Angel of Laplace. All he needed to do was step out of each incoming attack moments before it arrived at him.
Unfortunately, a trump card that had won him all battles in the Lower Realms was no longer the game-ender it once was.
BOOOM!
Rui gritted his teeth as he barely managed to throw together a guard. An attack defied his prediction, finding its mark on him despite his preemptive evasion. If not for Flux Earther, he would not have walked away with his bones intact.
Yet, that wasn't all.
DRIP DRIP...
Rui glanced at the blood on the fingertips of the Master's jabbing palm.
It appeared that Sekigaharan culture was even more martial than he thought.
"Idiot." Rui gestured around them. "We're in a war, moron. If I waste all my stamina on you, then I'll be dead the second this battle is over."
Rui hadn't forgotten the point of the battle either. He was fighting to protect the Kandrian Empire, and stalling out the battle for long was a good thing.
Master Kaijin stared at him blandly for a moment.
Almost as if he wasn't sure of what to say to such level-headed reasoning.
"I see, you're right. I should have considered your circumstances."
Rui was surprised at how reasonable the man was. "I appreciate tha—!"
He froze as a horrifying wave of peril washed over him.
"I'm going to get serious now." Master Kaijin's voice was low. "Let's see if you can worry about what's going to happen after this battle when you have to deal with my full power."
He activated his first breathing technique of the battle.
And it was only then that Rui realized he had been fighting without one the entire time.
He leaped back in alarm, yet he was a beat too late.
WHOOSH!
Master Kaijin appeared before Rui in the briefest of moments, launching an even faster attack that threatened to decapitate him then and there.
SPLAT
Rui barely managed to evade death, suffering a wound on his cheek as he leaped away, maintaining his distance.
He couldn't trust his predictive model with this man.
That, on top of his superior speed, meant that he needed to maintain his distance; moreover, he also couldn't use the Yin-Yang Spear without his predictive model.
"Does my Insightbreaker throw you that much off-guard?"
BOOOM!!
Rui grimaced as he barely managed to disperse the man's damage on his body, leaping away as he opened the distance between them. He swiftly launched a barrage of Transverse Resonances against his opponent from a distance.
Yet, Master Kaijin was hardly perturbed.
BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
He cleaved through the bullets of sound that Rui fired at him effortlessly.
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