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.

himself, but he did not want to look like a weirdo to the other Martial Artists and staff in the library. Above average mental attributes? That was all

for offense and combat

Inner Divergence for defense.

elevate myself

a total of five hundred and fifty-three martial credits left. He wanted to expand his Martial Art's general capability beyond just offense, defense,

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.

skills that would help him out in the field. They would not only

on defense. His defense wasn't nearly weak enough for

over to the miscellaneous section of the Apprentice library, skimming through the techniques that they

Rui raised his eyebrows. The section was divided further into

Stealth

Sensory

Environment-centric

Beast-centric

Labour-centric

Weapons-mastery

…

other niche fields. These sub-sections were too small to form their own major sections like offense, defense or maneuvering, but also too big to not be categorized in some way or the

techniques that in one way or another allowed the user to

[All-Seeing Eye]

far greater than the normal human limit, allowing

This technique almost entirely guaranteed

in