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.

nonchalantly strolled back as he grew absorbed in thought at the training sessions that he had

to 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

from this point on. In fact, he planned to replace some of the Foundation techniques with either successors or superior techniques operating on the same principle in the future to strengthen the quality

was for a distant

the four techniques he had

murmured to himself, sighing. It was quite the unpleasant training session, but he really wanted to

completing missions because he took forever to master Seismic Mapping. Other Apprentices might be used to it but Rui

in one go. The mind

to purely Seismic Mapping training. He could simply make every alternate day a Seismic Mapping training day while leaving the other days for

training put Rui in a good mood. This was the

I can continue to train Blink to refine proficiency above just ordinary mastery." He thought aloud. He even thought he could make it a hobby! Just to feel better whenever he was

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

That left two techniques.

Convergence and Inner

the two, Inner Divergence was definitely harder." He noted. "So, it

initial planning session in a nutshell. Of course, he would have to chink out the details and be more thorough to

four techniques this time. Had he tried to pick five he would have quickly realized that it was probably too much. Premium techniques were not as light of a

complete five premium techniques as quickly as he would have