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.

be more 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,

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

user should eventually be able to

surpasses human limits and reaches the Apprentice Realm, at this point the user would be allowed to use Apprentice-level techniques, and fight at his

the most important and also the ultimate goal. An Apprentice level technique that could not be used in Apprentice level combat was just a failure of

exploiting the blink timing optimally in conjunction with Apprentice-level techniques, then the training regime was

was normally supposed to

even longer depending on the mental faculties of the user. This was something Squire

has this boy adapted to a four-percent increase in the matter of two

interested and excited by the training regime, so he jumped right into it to get a

with amazement and shocked as he handled the

('What is going on??')

grinning with all the ecstasy he felt missing during

is how every stealth technique training regime is like, then I might just convert to a stealth-oriented Martial

an incredible amount of fun adapting to the timing needed for Blink

joy came from the fact that he was incredibly

he was as good at this as he was. There