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."

"But I decided to take a cautionary measure anyway, after having run into two dangerous missions

that separates you from death. Too many people don't develop their defense enough, and what happens as a result? They die." She glanced

wryly as

much, but it has high demands of the user. Fail to fulfill them and the

aren't allowed." Rui said. "But also, this technique has a high

"Hmmm... True." she admitted.

because it would change shape depending on the fight and his opponent. All the Martial Squires had long become acquainted with

attack." 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

would be no different from how the shock absorption springs

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

it was an Apprentice-level technique; Only

stage was to simply train the user to shift when attacked to

point that was close enough to all muscle groups to be supported

and the mindset needed. He was starting to see

enough to the center of mass, then the technique would simple be