The Martial Unity

The feat she accomplished was amazing. The idea that Rui would be able to perform that feat on any normal human was great! He would be able to travel without any detection as long as he timed the technique perfectly well.

He would be able to appear and disappear, just like a ninja!

Rui did have a soft spot for ninjas, not as much as he did for martial artists, but definitely close.

He got up with a barely constrained grin.

"The training for Blink is rather straightforward." She said. "You train until you've mastered the execution, timing and placement of the technique. This facility has training resources that significantly make easier what is otherwise a significantly difficult technique to learn at the Martial Apprentice Realm."

Rui nodded, aware of everything in detail. He still listened to her explanations out of respect, she was far better than Squire Maxime who uttered only a total of five words to Rui across the entirety of five hours of training.

"The combat application of Blink is quite different from the stealth application of Blink, so we train those separately in two training stages that you will engage in simultaneously." She explained.

The first stage of the training was centered around mechanics dolls that blinked for periods longer than that of even an average human being. Rui was effectively supposed to play tag with these mechanical dolls, except he wasn't allowed to move except for when they blinked.

This did two things.

conscious of the timing of the mechanical blinks, and secondly it forced his body to learn how to exploit the blinks properly. Since the training stage required him to not use any Apprentice-level techniques or even any of the techniques from the Exploration Stage, he was only allowed

speed would progressively increase, just a tiny bit at a time, no more than a two-percent increase. Once the user adapted to

of continuous dedicated single-minded training, the user should eventually be able to reach the

speed surpasses human limits and reaches the Apprentice Realm, at this point

used to exploiting blink timing in Apprentice level battles, which was the most important and also the ultimate goal. An Apprentice level technique that could not

the blink timing optimally in conjunction

to take several months on

or two, maybe even longer depending on the mental faculties of the user. This was something Squire Helen knew

to a four-percent increase in the

training regime, so he

shocked as he handled the training stage like it

('What is going on??')

hand was grinning with all the ecstasy he felt missing during

then I might just convert

the timing needed for Blink

came from the fact that he was incredibly could at it, making for an

taken him a while to realize why he was as good at this as