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.

within it. As he walked around, he would see training rooms with

After all, the best way to test whether a particular sensory

Seismic Mapping was meant to detect and sense things that couldn't be

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

a second, then at the scroll in his

"Come." he said quietly.

to a particular facility. "Do you know to

"...Yes."

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

Rui particularly needed

able to interpret seismic vibrations and map a general topography and map of objects in contact with the

of most of the information it receives without processing it rigorously. A lot of the time it mainly focused on what the eyes saw and not what the other senses perceived. This was true even for

was a cognitive bias that was deeply ingrained in humans. Not even martial Apprentices could

But training could.

to force the brain to dig up the deeply buried

course, only Martial Apprentices had the mental faculties to do that, which is why the technique was Apprentice-level; only Apprentices could

having the mind pay more attention to subconsciously dismissed micro-vibrations and then by

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