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Rui stopped listening after the extra bonus was mentioned. He frankly didn't care all that much about anything else the Lowminers had to say. The rest of the meeting passed in a daze as the branch manager tried to make as good an impression in the limited amount of time they had left.

Soon enough, Fae promptly excused all of them and left the branch, heading to the Martial Union. Once they arrived at the Martial Union, Rui raced to complete the post-mission protocols as fast as he possible could.

"What's he all excited about?" Dalen asked with confusion. "We just got back after a tiring mission."

Kane and Fae sighed.

"Forget about it." Fae shook her head.

"Nerds spend time in the library." Kane said. "That's exactly what he wants to do."

Rui couldn't even be bothered retorting to the barbs. Once he filled up the forms and signed the what needed to be signed. He rushed to the Apprentice library the second his work was finished.

"See you guys later!" He yelled as the figure of his friends grew smaller in the distance.

that Kane got up, stretching. "Well, I should probably train too, I

with Kane, as she rarely did. "It would be embarrassing if the runt I smacked in the Entrance

the two of them proceeded to

jittery. Like a child who had entered a gigantic toy store after saving up his or

what direction should evolve or develop his Martial Art in? There were so many options he simply didn't

were also limited in variety. The premium techniques consisted of a much more diverse set of

getting too excited and making stupid decisions about how

what was

and expand his

want that to happen? What were

was a bit more complicated and nuanced. First, he was an all-rounder. This meant he could not allow his Martial

this point in time, would be to fill in the holes in his Martial, and avoid filling what is already

the relative strengths and weaknesses of his Martial

still lacking in

and grappling offense move respectively. However, both of these techniques lacked flexibility. They could only be

Canon was a technique that required a run-up to accumulate momentum. This turned out to be much more limiting than Rui had hoped. After all, it wasn't possible to run back and

that targeted vitals in the most effective way with every strike by optimizing hand form, location as

move, all it did was allow his strikes to inflict damage greater than he

That wasn't enough.

Rui decided to fundamentally improve his

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