Guga Combat Arts

Comprehensive Fighting Arts

Guga Combat Arts

Martial Combat Method

These three martial arts were the results of Ul's initial screening.

Compared with the other martial arts, each of which had its own "distinctive features," these three had one major feature: they had no distinctive features—or at least, none that stood out.

But for that very reason, although they had no particularly outstanding strengths, they also had no obvious weaknesses.

As its name suggested, Comprehensive Fighting Arts was a martial art that brought together various fighting techniques. Almost every common martial art had some presence in it.

By comparison, Guga Combat Arts was probably the most "distinctive" of the three.

Simple, direct, and brutal... That was how Ul described it.

Guga Combat Arts hadn't been created by some martial arts master.

It was a "survival skill" passed down through generations by an ancient primitive tribe. Because they lived in a primeval forest teeming with beasts and "monsters," they faced attacks almost every day from hostile tribes, wild animals, "monsters," and even the elements...

In such an environment, Guga Combat Arts had naturally come into being.

From the moment it was created, Guga Combat Arts had been meant to end an enemy's life as quickly as possible and at the least possible cost. It could truly be called a killing art.

As for the remaining one, Martial Combat Method!

In Ul's view, it was somewhat similar to the ancient martial arts of his previous life. In terms of the sophistication of its techniques alone, none of the martial arts collected by Fairy Tail could compare with it.

Ul had selected these three martial arts from among the many available in very little time!

But when it came to choosing between them, he couldn't make a final decision.

Overall!

All three martial arts suited Ul's needs, but there was obviously no way he could train in all three at once.

After all, mastering a martial art took just as much time and effort as mastering magic.

After agonizing over it for a long time,

Ul finally chose Guga Combat Arts as his primary martial art!

The reason was simple.

Both Comprehensive Fighting Arts and Martial Combat Method were mainly suited to dealing with human enemies.

But the enemies he might face in the future wouldn't be limited to humans.

After all, this world had demons, "monsters," and even creatures like dragons...

After choosing his martial art!

Ul immediately set about training.

Training in martial arts wasn't simple. True martial arts weren't just a matter of learning a few moves.

The true essence of martial arts lay in making the most of the human body's strengths.

For example, if an ordinary person could punch with a force of a hundred pounds, martial arts helped them use that same body to punch with a force of two hundred pounds.

And in this regard, Guga Combat Arts excelled!

Not only could Guga Combat Arts deliver a two-hundred-pound blow, it could also teach practitioners where to strike an enemy to kill them in one hit.

And if they couldn't kill the enemy in one hit, it could teach them where to strike to inflict the greatest damage.

Actually, when Ul first saw this martial art in Fairy Tail, he'd been full of doubts.

After all, in his memory,

every member of Fairy Tail was "incredibly kind."

They were all so "kind" that they wouldn't even finish off their enemies after defeating them, letting them recover and come back to cause trouble.

How could a guild so "kind" have such a brutal martial art?

Um...

It had to be a mistake!

Definitely a mistake!

Some "kind" guild member had probably picked up the wrong martial art!

Guga Combat Arts had no set forms or techniques. For that very reason, it was much harder to master than ordinary martial arts.

That was because, unlike other martial arts, the most important requirement for training in Guga Combat Arts was... the environment.

Its essence could only be mastered in certain specific environments. Without this crucial condition, the Guga Combat Arts one learned would be all form and no substance.

Although those "specific environments" could be artificially recreated,

Ul obviously didn't have the money to do that.

So his only choice was to rely on naturally occurring "specific environments" to train in Guga Combat Arts.

As it happened, one such natural "special environment" existed near the guild. There was just one problem: it seemed to be "a little bit" dangerous!

Morning!

The sun rose over the eastern horizon, and a ray of sunlight slowly fell across Ul's face as he stood before the forest.

After spending the entire night thinking it over,

Ul finally decided to use Magnolia's East Forest, that naturally occurring "special environment," to train in Guga Combat Arts.

Unlike training in other martial arts,

the first step in mastering Guga Combat Arts wasn't learning a technique or a special way to train the body. It was learning... how to run away.

It might sound ridiculous!

But in truth, this was the approach that best suited the Guga people's way of survival.

For the Guga people, no matter how strong they were in a fight, without the ability to run away, they were still doomed to die.

After all, their environment had no shortage of enemies of every kind.

Gazing at the East Forest before him, which looked like a sea of blades and flames, Ul hesitated for a long while.

Finally!

He shouldered his backpack and, steeling himself, stepped inside... ...