The Martial Unity

Rui sharpened his eyes as the Dragon Emperor and the Supreme Commander charged at him, while NOVA’s quantum supercomputer remained behind, protected by some kind of energy field. The first to reach him was the Dragon Emperor. The mighty dragon swung his wings, pushing against the very fabric of space-time as he arrived before Rui in the blink of an eye, his right-hand claws swinging at him with tremendous momentum.

WHOOSH!

Rui ducked midair, evading the blow smoothly, only to find the Supreme Commander emerging from behind the claw attack in a surprise ambush, thrusting a powerful blow at Rui.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

Rui defended the blow with a layer of invintium, protecting himself from the impact of the attack extremely well. Because the supreme commander was fully Anthean, obviously, his physical prowess was far greater than that of Rui’s, launching him backwards weightlessly through the chamber.

“I have you now.”

Much to his surprise, the Dragon Emperor had been waiting for him, landing a thundering blast where he stood.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

The sheer force of the blow was extraordinary.

And yet, in the face of Aqua Existentia, even the might of the Dragon Emperor was all but absorbed into Rui’s body, allowing him to smoothly retaliate with all the absorbed power in a smooth blow.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

His fist blasted into Lord Shenlong’s body with the hopes of returning him to a blob of primordial seed, but alas, the Dragon Emperor was too tough. Rui had indeed gotten much, much stronger than when he fought the Dragon Emperor, but the sheer disparity in their volume and mass meant that ordinary forms of attacks, even attacks empowered with the dragon’s own energy, would not harm him.

“Hahaha, your puny attacks are of no consequence!” The Dragon Emperor laughed in his face before unleashing an onslaught of attacks against Rui, threatening to flatten him where he stood.

RUMBLE!!!!!

His barreling tail whipped into Rui with a deadly amount of force, converging upon his head. And yet, it couldn’t so much as touch him.

WHOOSH

The dragon’s claws surged forth with tremendous momentum, hoping to impale him upon one of the dragon’s claws in a barrage of attacks.

Not even a single one of them put so much as a scratch on him.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

He didn’t even need Autocorpus. His predictive and SOUL model on the dragon alone were enough for him to completely outstrip the lumbering beast’s movements. The smallest of shifts, the gentlest of steps allowed him to narrowly move out of the way of the dragon’s destructive onslaught.

Or so he thought.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

His eyes widened as Supreme Commander emerged from the shadow of the Dragon Emperor’s attacks, landing a clean attack where he stood, permeating it past his invintium, while the Dragon Emperor snarled, launching a powerful whip to crush both of them where they stood.

The Supreme Commander didn’t appear to mind dying, since he was already dead. Instead, he would rather simply tangle with Rui and keep him occupied for the Dragon Emperor to finish the job.

BANG!

Rui kicked the Supreme Commander apart, launching him away as he used him as a launchpad to evade tail swing.

WHOOSH!!!!!

The sheer shockwaves created by the destructive blow were overwhelming by themselves. A full-powered attack from the Dragon Emperor, charged with momentum and gamma radiation, was perhaps their best at killing Rui, as far as they were concerned.

Anthea sped through the empty void of the underground cavity at a blinding speed, arriving before Rui in the blink of an eye with a blow of charged momentum.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

Rui took the blow head-on, redirecting it smoothly with Outer Divergence, relying on the quantum gap between their bodies to throw his strike completely off-track, only to find the Dragon Emperor’s jaws opening into him from behind.

WHOOSH!

He summersaulted into the air, smoothly evading the devastating impact, only to find the Supreme Commander.

The man had arrived there before Rui.

As if he knew exactly where Rui was going to be.

He unfurled an onslaught of blows with sharp palm jabs, shifting his combat style to a more close-range style where he could potentially tangle Rui up much better than before.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

Much to his surprise, he couldn’t land so much as a single blow on Rui even though he used Chaos Body, the same thing he had used again the Reverend of Reckoning, to disrupt his prediction.

Autocorpus was enough, as far as Rui was concerned. He didn’t even bother adaptively evolving to his opponent’s chaos when his body could react without him thinking. “RAGH!” The Dragon Emperor emerged behind him, launching a thundering attack of great power, threatening to wipe out both Rui and Anthea all at once.

And yet, at the very final moment, Rui managed to extricate himself from the two of them, smoothly escaping through.

WHOOSH!!!!!

The attack of the Dragon Emperor generated violent shockwaves that spread throughout the battlefield.

And yet, Rui emerged unscathed, much to the chagrin.

[Your coordination is not good enough.]

“Shut up,” the Dragon Emperor barked. “You’ve been doing almost nothing yourself, you useless computer!”

“I must concur with the rabid beast,” Anthea coldly retorted at NOVA. “It’s easy to say that when you’re just sitting in the back.”

[I have reformulated my predictive models on him based on the many radical changes he has undergone. Now, attack. This time, together. Interweave your attacks in rapid succession and leave him no reprieve.]

The Supreme Commander and the Dragon Emperor directed a dangerous glint in their eyes as they charged once more. Rui sharpened his eyes, noting the changes in their movements even as they arrived before him in the blink of an eye.

This time, they came together.

RUMBLE!!!!!

The world shook as the Dragon Emperor unleashed a devastating blow of tremendous power, unleashing an onslaught of gamma radiation along with the swing of his claws.

WHOOSH!

Rui smoothly pirouetted in the air, spinning to evade the dangerously intense gamma radiation.

[Spinning pirouette. Seven meters elevation.]

His eyes widened as NOVA smoothly predicted his movements as he emerged above the attack, finding himself face to face with Anthea’s fist.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!