The Martial Unity

Rui recounted his time at the Academy. Describing the various training regimes and sessions he went through in the physical and Martial foundation stages that overall constituted the Foundational Stage. He went onto narrate his times in the Exploration Stage and ultimately went on to talk about his Martial Apprentice breakthrough and his Martial Path.

"To think you discovered your Martial Path in a dream." Julian commented, once the excitement died down a bit, leaving them alone. "Quite the fairy tale-like story, isn't it?"

"It was a magical moment." Rui affirmed.

"The discovery of a Martial Path... I'm not unfamiliar with it." Julian commented. "In fact, some of the research projects I'm involved in are actually about the phenomenon of discovering one's Martial Path."

"Oh?" Rui's interest immediately perked. "Are you allowed to tell me that?"

The Kandrian Institute of Sciences were royal institutes, meaning the research and development that occurred was property of the Kandrian Royal Family. He didn't think that such research was available in the public domain.

"The projects I'm involved have extremely low confidentiality grades. As long I don't blatantly sell the actual data collected, I'm not violating my agreement with the Institute. It's the kind of project that is purely an intellectual pursuit with no real-world applications you see. Talking about it in a general sense isn't prolematic."

"I see..." Rui pondered about the information that Julian provided. He certainly wasn't aware that the research and development department of the Kandrian Institute of Sciences graded research and development projects in regards to confidentiality. "What research have you worked on, generally speaking?"

"Part of it has to do with the psychological and neurological impacts of the Martial Apprentice breakthrough on the Martial Artist." Julian replied. "This was also the area of research of my thesis paper in my final year you see."

Rui commented. "So, what exactly did your research yield in so far as the changes and

reaction speed, kinetic vision and reflexes, as well as body-eye coordination, to put it

a great overall boost in several mental parameters and attributes. "I did grow much stronger once I became

made some very odd discoveries about these enhancements, you see. For one, the data reveals that the degree of these enhancements is not static and unchanging, but rather variable. The superhuman

squinted in confusion when he heard that. The mental boosts he gained from becoming a Martial Apprentice were

do you mean?" He asked, waiting

the Martial Path are in flux, they're variables rather than constants." Julian sipped his tea, before proceeding. "In some situations, Martial Apprentices demonstrate superhuman mental attributes and parameters, but in others, they're perfectly

were complicated phenomena that were picked up through proper empirical research, it was impossible for

some of the experiments and surveys we conducted." Julian continued. "Let us take scenario A, where a Martial Apprentice is engaged in combat. Scenario B, where a Martial Apprentice is engaging in time-pressure manual labor tasks. Scenario C where a Martial Apprentice is participating

Rui pondered.

this should be the case. Why would these mental and neurological parameters change? But given what Julian said earlier, he

our research

"Interesting." Rui commented.

processing speed of the Martial Apprentice is Scenario

than scenario A, much lesser, in fact." Julian continued. "As for Scenario C... The time-pressure math exam... We found something quite

"Oh?"