The Martial Unity

Rui had only intended to break the ice with each of the four techniques on the first day, before returning back to his room and figuring out how he's going to divide his time and energy. He didn't intend to extend beyond what was necessary.

But he had completely forgotten about that as he immersed himself into the training regime. He loved the sheer progress as he grew better and better at timing blink maneuvers. In the end, he lost track of time completely all the way until his stamina was drained.

"Twelve hours?" Rui couldn't believe it, it passed so quickly he wouldn't have been surprised if Squire Helen was pulling his leg.

She nodded in response. "You just kept going on and on, I thought you were aware of the time." She shrugged. "Apprentice training schedules are largely self-regulated, after all."

Rui nodded, still dazed in disbelief.

"How did you do it?" She asked out of curiosity. "How did you get so good at the technique so quickly? Your rate of growth is unheard of!"

Rui scratched his head awkwardly, unsure of what to say.

"Dunno" He shrugged. "Glad it's working out this well though."

He quickly bade her goodbye before she could inquire any further, and left the stealth-training facility as he headed back to the Apprentice dorms.

strolled back as he grew absorbed in thought at the training sessions that he had undergone in the past twenty-four

realize that the priced techniques were not overpriced in any way. Each of the techniques he purchased were qualitatively superior to the techniques he procured out of the foundational reserve that the Academy offered to

fact, he planned to replace some

that was for a distant

had picked up and the difficulty of

Seismic Mapping." He murmured to himself, sighing. It was quite the unpleasant training session, but he really wanted to master the Seismic

He didn't want to be held back from completing missions because he took forever to master Seismic Mapping. Other Apprentices

was probably to have longer training sessions in one go. The mind retained

make every alternate day

easiest technique to train for was Blink. Just the very thought of the training put Rui in a

just ordinary mastery." He thought aloud. He even thought he could make it a hobby! Just to feel better whenever he was down or

trying to focus. With how well his Blink training proceeded, he didn't need to spend too much time to it. Thus, he decided to allot it the least amount of training timing. He suspected that Blink

That left two techniques.

Convergence and Inner

noted. "So, it gets more training timing allocated to

in a nutshell. Of course, he would have to chink out the details

would have quickly realized that it was probably too much.

five premium techniques as