The Martial Unity

Rui spent a few hours on the first stage of Outer Convergence training. It was more draining than he'd expected. He had to consume two potions before he was good enough to continue training.

Though much to Squire Dylon's surprise, he halted his training and left the facility after biding him farewell.

Rui had purchased four techniques, not one. He wanted to begin training in all of them. Once he got an idea for how difficult or easy the training regimes for each technique was then he could formulate an efficient plan and schedule as for how to go about it.

Dedicating an equal amount of time for techniques that were unequally difficult to master was not an efficient allocation of time.

"Alright..." Rui stretched as he left the striking training facility. "What to do next?"

He shrugged before heading over to the defense training facility. He wanted to begin training Inner Divergence as soon as possible.

"Squire Fare." Rui greeted, bowing to the head instructor of the defense training facility with respect. "I'm here to begin training with the Inner Divergence."

A muscular women built like a tank turned around, glancing at Rui. "Training a third defensive technique? Acute Edge and Elastic Shift are falling short already?" A flash of surprise crept onto her chiseled face. "I would have thought you would go longer without purchasing a defensive technique, with how well you mastered them."

decided to take a cautionary measure anyway, after having run

literally the only thing that separates you from death. Too many people don't develop their defense enough, and what happens as a result? They die." She glanced at Rui with an

smiled wryly

scroll. "Interesting choice. It's a technique capable of much, but it has high demands of the user. Fail to fulfill them and the technique will fail you. Are you

Rui said. "But also, this technique has

"Hmmm... True." she admitted.

because it would change shape depending on the fight and his opponent. All the Martial

She reiterated to begin. "The core means by which one does this is by ensuring the attack's trajectory is aligned to the center of mass of the human body. That in combination with flexing each muscle group to support the area of impact will disperse the impact across all

no different from how

perform this technique, but the reasons humans couldn't master it was because the mental faculties required

Apprentice-level technique;

stages. The first training stage was to simply train the user to shift when attacked to ensure all attack trajectories would be aimed at the center

body, the only point

training, no doubt. Rui was simply unaccustomed to the thought process and the mindset needed. He was starting to see why the technique warned the user of

close enough to the center of mass, then the technique would simple be ineffective. The user will simply be left defenseless in this