The Martial Unity

He had yet to choose a technique, he had grown far too engrossed in the creativity these techniques displayed.

He wasn't entirely sure what technique to pick, he didn't want to go all out on defense and pick an extravagant technique since his defense was sturdy enough. He skimmed through the section a bit more as his eyes landed on something interesting.

[Inner Divergence]

This technique was a defensive technique that dispersed the impact of strikes across the entire body by positioning the area of impact as close to the center of the body as possible. By conducting the impact across the entire body and not just the area of impact, the impact would be diluted and not inflict any damage.

It was similar to how a weight placed on top of a pyramid would be burdened by every block in the pyramid. By dispersing the impact cross the body, it was easier to withstand than if a single portion of the body withstood it.

The technique was extremely high-grade, however for some reason it was not priced very high, a meagre two hundred martial credits

As Rui skimmed through the scroll, he quickly realized why.

('It has a disproportionately high degree of difficulty of mastery.')

The more difficult a technique was to master and execute, the less its value was. Two high grade techniques with different difficulties of mastery had different value.

It turned out that Inner Convergence was such an obtuse technique that its effectivity of application was one hundred-percent dependent on the timing and judgement of the user, it's effectivity could potentially be worser than Exploration techniques. It required remarkable judgement, timing and placement, far more so than most other techniques.

If timed well, it could apparently surpass its grade, but if timed poorly it could even get one killed in the worst-case scenario.

The technique specifically warned the reader of the high requirements of mental faculties, and advised the reader to not purchase the technique if the reader's mental attributes were not significantly above average.

effort to restrain himself, but he did not want to look like a weirdo to the other Martial Artists and staff in the library. Above

offense and combat

Inner Divergence for defense.

Divergence, I will elevate myself to

wanted to expand his Martial Art's general capability beyond just offense, defense, maneuvering

that missions were much, much more about just hand-to-hand combat. Missions were not official duels where the only thing that mattered was one's combat prowess. In fact, he had come to realize that pure straightforward combat prowess was at most half of what

additional useful skills that would help him out in the field. They would not only increase the probability of

was reluctant on splurging on defense. His defense wasn't

the miscellaneous section of the Apprentice library, skimming through

raised his eyebrows. The section was divided further

Stealth

Sensory

Environment-centric

Beast-centric

Labour-centric

Weapons-mastery

…

like offense, defense or maneuvering, but also

in one way or another allowed the user to perceive or gain

[All-Seeing Eye]

greater than the normal human limit, allowing the user to form a detailed

the highest graded techniques in the entire section, costing a whopping four hundred martial credits. This technique almost entirely guaranteed that all covert

in every single