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.

in thought at the training sessions that he had undergone in the

any way. Each of the techniques he purchased were qualitatively superior to the techniques he procured out

wouldn't really be able to go back to learning foundational techniques 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

was for

four techniques he had picked

Seismic Mapping." He murmured to himself, sighing. It was quite the unpleasant training

missions because he took forever to master Seismic Mapping.

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

purely Seismic Mapping training. He could simply make every alternate day a Seismic Mapping training

for was Blink. Just the very thought of the training put Rui in a

train Blink to refine proficiency above just ordinary mastery." He thought aloud. He even thought he

decided to allot it the least amount of training timing. He suspected that Blink might end up being the first technique he fully mastered

That left two techniques.

Convergence and Inner

two, Inner Divergence was definitely harder." He noted.

have to chink out the details and be more thorough to be as efficient as possible, but the overall trend had been

he would have quickly realized that it was probably too much. Premium techniques were

think he would be able to complete five premium techniques as