The Martial Unity

Chapter 3554: Glitching Existence

One moment, he was in the Great Nam Ocean.

The very next moment, he found himself in an underground chamber in the Imperial Tekvorian Federation harboring a titanic quantum supercomputer the size of a town.

He had used a combination of using his extraordinary senses to track her signal along with the Eye of Prophecy to triangulate her exact position, and then relied on mental trial and error scenarios vetted by the Eye of Prophecy.

It was a lesser version of what he had done in light elf territory to reach Mother Maeria.

”To think my opponent was a computer.” Rui’s hand balled into a fist as he charged into the giant computer, unleashing a tremendously powerful attack against the quantum computer. ”Still...”

His pitch-black eyes sharpened with a profound intensity.

”I’ll have you perish.”

[I’m afraid not.]

His eyes widened as he felt the very fabric of space warping inside of him, using his own negatron matter to open a powerful wormhole against him.

WHOOSH

One moment, he was in the Imperial Tekvorian Federation.

The very next moment, he had returned to the Great Void Ocean.

His fist struck water, creating a tremendously destructive wave of power within the depths of the Great Void Ocean against the tekvore army.

BOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!!!

The tekore army shook, clearly caught off-guard by the attack as an enormous wave of compression passed through the ocean, crumpling against their flesh and technology.

Rui’s pitch-black eyes sharpened. ”...”

[That was close. (_•)]

Rui’s eyes shifted to the text message projected mid-water in front of him. This time, he balled his hand into fists yet again, throwing a punching motion towards the text message.

And then, he teleported.

WHOOSH

He returned to the quantum supercomputer, unleashing a destructively powerful attack with his fist just one meter away from the computer.

[Just as I had predicted. ( ` ꒳ ´ )✧]

WHOOSH

He spontaneously returned to the Great Void Ocean, unleashing the attack upon the ocean once more.

BOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

The attack unleashed yet another attack that shook his enemies.

”Tsk,” Rui tutted with a hint of displeasure.

There was no way that she had managed to react to his attack after it teleported just one inch from her. She had prepared that teleportation timing ahead of time, meaning she had completely read his decision well ahead of time and prepared to counter it.

[You defied my expectations twice in a row. That is something to be proud of, but I’m afraid that it will not happen a second time.]

”We’ll just have to see about that.” Rui’s voice was oozing with confidence as his hand balled into a fist once more, unleashing yet another destructive attack of great power.

His eyes glowed red with Megamind as he increased the accuracy and precision of his teleportation.

WHOOSH

This time, he teleported not just a meter away, but came as close as a foot. His eyes glowed with power as he thrust his fist forth with great power, intending to utterly annihilate the quantum supercomputer.

And yet, not even that was enough for him to reach NOVA.

WHOOSH

He returned to the Great Nam Ocean.

BOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!!

”Tsk.” His dark eyes sharpened as he returned to the Imperial Tekvorian Federation.

[Hahaha, my win again! ٩(^ᗜ^ )و ´-]

And yet, Rui was just getting started.

WHOOSH

He disappeared, reappearing in NOVA’s chamber. This time, he prepared a second teleportation meant to teleport him to another spot within the room so that he could evade NOVA’s teleportation.

[Nice try.]

WHOOSH

He returned to the ocean with an irritated expression.

WHOOSH

He teleported back to the NOVA chamber, using Phantom Step to project a slightly false location.

[Spacetime doesn’t lie, I’m afraid.]

WHOOSH

He returned to the Great Void Ocean once more, only to stubbornly activate his teleportation yet again, unwilling to give up so easily, this time, he used Eye of Prophecy to time exactly when she would activate her teleportation, preparing a second teleportation to activate at the same time so that he would return at almost exactly the very moment he was teleported away.

And yet, not even that was enough.

[I can see your SOUL.]

His eyes widened with shock at those words.

WHOOSH

He returned to the Great Void Ocean again.

She had foreseen his third teleportation and instead had prepared a fourth one. Rui teleported once more, preparing a fifth teleportation to negate her fourth teleportation as he activated Soul Retcon to vastly increase his proficiency and mastery of Worm Step.

WHOOSH

WHOOSH

WHOOSH

WHOOSH

WHOOSH

WHOOSH

...

Rui’s existence soon became a glitchy blur.

As if he were a video game character on a corrupted file that couldn’t run properly.

His mind raced to formulate counters to NOVA’s counters. He relied on Eye of Prophecy and a growing Prophecy of the Void to predict her counters while creating new solutions.

He altered his position within NOVA’s chamber, trying to throw her off, only to find that it made no difference for her. He tried using hypnosis, only to realize that in her current state of existence, her mind was structured fundamentally differently. She could process all information simultaneously without needing to make sacrifices because of the quantum computing, which relied on quantum superposition to process all possible states of a system.

He even went as far as activating spontaneously, unleashing light attacks the very moment he teleported.

Unlike his fist, light would not be teleported away with him and because it traveled at the speed of light, it separated from him the very moment he arrived, ensuring that teleporting him back was meaningless.

And yet, she teleported not just him, but also the light, using gravitational lensing and another wormhole prepared ahead of time.

Each attack he launched, she found a solution ahead of time, remaining one step ahead of him.

It became a game of Chess in and of itself.

In order for Rui to win, he needed to evade her predictions. It was extremely difficult, if not outright impossible, for her to react in time to some of his more point-blank high-speed attacks, even for a quantum supercomputer.

It meant that prediction was her only protection.