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.

would see training rooms with a single Apprentice within. Occasionally they were blind-folded, yet completely unperturbed the lack of vision. Other times they would have other sense

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

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

of an estimated four times.

man glanced at Rui for a second, then at the scroll

"Come." he said quietly.

to a particular facility. "Do you know to

"...Yes."

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

that Rui

to be able to interpret seismic vibrations and map a general topography and map of

it disposes 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 Martial Apprentices like

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

But training could.

to force the brain to dig up the deeply buried information about vibrations that it mildly perceived, but had long subconsciously ignored because of focusing

to do that, which is why the technique

the mind pay more attention to subconsciously dismissed micro-vibrations and then by sheer experience learn to slowly decipher those

by trial and error and learning to correlate micro-vibrations with