WHOOSH
BAM!
Nel swerved out of a palm attack, as heunched wild haymaker at Fae. She grimaced, proceeding tounch a flurry of attacks.
WHOOSH WHOOSH POW
Out of three, only one found its mark.
Although Nel didn''t have the effective feints of the Phantom Step technique, he did have his immense speed and agility. He was much faster than Fae without a doubt.
POW POW POW
Suddenly Fae managed tond three hits square.
"She sacrificed power for speed." Rui nodded, having expected this. This was amon tactic she employed against slippery opponents. She''d used it against himself and Kane as well.
Powerful weighted attacks usually needed greater distance to be elerated over, they were more obvious and were easier to detect and predict, all of these factors made them easier to avoid. Speedy jabs however usually travelled a much shorter distance, they were much harder to detect and predict.
"Why isn''t she using that lethal attack she used against you and Hever?" Dalen frowned.
"Probably because she can''t reallynd it." Rui replied. "That attack isn''t easy tond and is easy to detect because how much she needs to twist and curl her arm. It also takes longer tond than her other palm attacks. Although she is able tond these speedy jabs, that doesn''t mean she cannd her Whirlpool palm."
He paused, turning to face the fight, before continuing. "Though if she doesnd it...."
She would gain a very decisive advantage. The lethality of that attack far surpassed the lethality of Nel''s offense. This was the downside of his Martial Path, he couldn''t use any techniques that would increase the lethality of his attacks beyond what his body could normally offer.
The question was how was she going to aplish this?
The situation was quite simr to Rui''s fight with Nel. He needed tond the Stinger as well. Eventually, he managed tond it cleanly with a long and borate strategy as well as several techniques, the VOID algorithm and most significantly; some psychological tricks.
Fae would likely be unable to replicate Rui''s methods.
Shecked far too many things. Shecked the techniques he needed for the strategy to seed; The Phantom Step technique and the Blink. She certainlycked the VOID algorithm.
And sacrificing false modesty, Rui knew shecked his cognitive capabilities by virtue of not having a double-reincarnated mind.
WHOOSH
POW POW POW
Nel cleanly avoided a palm thrust, smoothly throwing three jabs at her. He had begun to get the hang of using his evasiveness against her. This was not something he was ustomed to, in the entire preliminary contest, Fae was the only one who had forced him to back down and fight evasively pretty much entirely.
Even Rui only managed that by spamming the Stinger, which would have been foolish and reckless if not for his resourceful tactic.
Heunched a weighted strike at her.
BAM!
To his surprise, she didn''t defend against it.
BAM!!
A powerful weighted blownded on him, pushing him back.
She abandoned her defense, ignoring the damage he caused in exchange fornding an even stronger attack on him.
"That''s a good strategy." Rui nodded in approval. "Frankly, she''s not getting anywhere even with her speedy jabs. She decided to gamble and go all-in. She tossed aside her defense and dedicated everything to offense."
"Would that really help all that much?" Kane wondered.
"It certainly would." Dalen nodded. "Defense takes physical and mental capital. It restricts your movements, consumes your attention and energy. If you forget about it, you''ve removed yourself of a lot of shackles."
Rui nodded. "The downside is that you''re going to be punished with damage."<sub> </sub>
Her conditioned had worsened already, each attack from Nel left a bruise on her fair skin, inflicting pain and damage on her unguarded abdomen.
WHOOSH
POW
Nel avoided a strike,nding haymaker on her.
WHOOSH
He ducked sharply as a palm attack almost crashed into him. Ever since she abandoned her defense and went all-out, dodging attacks had be much harder. He was only able to dodge half of them as the other halfnded square on him.N?vel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.
POW POW
He leapt back after Fae smacked him twice, chasing after him immediately.
WHOOSH
He spun about a palm attack from her, infiltrating her stance.
However, Fae was prepared. Her right arm twisted and curled as sheunched a Whirlpool attack straight at him.
Rui was impressed. She had waited for a moment when he was super close to her tounch her Whirlpool attack. It was only at this range could she possibly have had chance atnding her Whirlpool at him.
Her palm spun as it shot forward.
But.
Not before Nel''s foot crashed into her jaw.
BAM!
Having abandoned defense for the most part, the unadultered power of Nel rocked her head, disorienting her.
Nel didn''t let the go of the opening!
BAM BAM BAM!
He threw a flurry of weighted strikes against her.
POW!
A wild haymaker crashed into her head.
The damage done in her already disoriented state was too much.
THUD
She copsed.
It was over
"Winner: Apprentice Nel!" The supervisor dered, after verifying she was knocked out.
Rui shook his head mncholically. The fight truly could have gone either way. If Nel had gone for that kick just a momentter, or for another attack Fae would have sessfullynded the Whirlpool attack in all likelihood.
Once shended the attack, the match would have been over, Nel''s condition would have deteriorated quickly, like Rui''s had back then and within five minutes, his condition would have been too deste to possibly defeat Fae.
Fae would have continuednding strikes, at an even greater rate than she had before thanks to his plummeting condition and eventually she would have pressed for a win and gone onto knock him out either by a palm strike or had him bleeding until he was unconscious.
But no.
There were no second chances.
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