The Martial Unity

The Inner Divergence training regime was less elaborate than the Outer Convergence training session, but it was even more difficult.

Rui found it quite hard to fundamentally change how he deals with incoming attacks; this training required him to get rid of some of his muscle memory and built new muscle memory.

Furthermore, every time he failed, he would effectively be taking an attack head-on without any defense whatsoever. Since Squire Fare did not allow him to use Acute Edge or Elastic Shift during the training regime.

By the time a few hours passed and his first training session with Inner Divergence ended, Rui had completely lose count of the number of healing potions he had consumed in that one session alone.

('Thank fucking god the Academy doesn't charge the students for every potion we consume, otherwise I would be bankrupted to hell and back. Even becoming a Martial Master would not free me of the sheer amount of debt!')

This, of course, was an extreme exaggeration and Rui knew it. He didn't know any details, but he was sure that Martial Masters could earn such ridiculous money that even the amount Rui fretted over was too insignificant to even register in their awareness.

Rui sighed as he exited the defense training facility, scratching his head.

('Two down, two more to go.') He mused.

He headed over to the sensory training facility, a facility he had never visited before, since this ws the first time he was taking an Apprentice-level sensory technique.

He was quite curious and he wasn't sure what to expect. Once he entered the facility, he took a small tour of it before immediately jumping into training.

the others, it was larger and had many sub-sections and division within it. As he walked around, he would see

improving sensory capabilities. After all, the best way to test whether a particular sensory technique was functioning well and

meant to

a respectable bow for the third out of an estimated four times. "My name is Rui Quarrier, I'm

Rui for a second, then at the

"Come." he said quietly.

particular facility. "Do you know to

"...Yes."

wasn't particularly interactive. He didn't even bother explaining the technique or the training regime to

Rui

be able to interpret seismic

of the information it receives without processing it rigorously. A lot of

this was a cognitive bias that was deeply ingrained in humans.

But training could.

it aimed to force the brain to dig up the deeply buried information about vibrations

do that, which is why the technique was

stage focused on having the mind pay more attention to subconsciously dismissed micro-vibrations and then

way to learn it, Rui supposed. Only by trial and error and learning to correlate micro-vibrations