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.

he grew absorbed in thought at the training sessions that he

had come to realize that the priced techniques were not overpriced in any way. Each of

be able to go back to learning foundational techniques from this point on. In fact, he planned to replace some of the Foundation techniques

that was for a

the four techniques he had picked

the unpleasant training session, but he really wanted to master

missions because he took forever to master Seismic Mapping. Other Apprentices might be used to it but Rui did not want

probably to have longer training sessions in one go. The mind retained experience the longer it experienced a particular

could simply make every

for was Blink. Just the very thought of the training put Rui in a good mood. This was the first technique whose training was so

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

head, 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

That left two techniques.

Convergence and

two, Inner Divergence was definitely harder." He noted. "So, it gets more training timing

chink out the details and

grateful that he had chosen to pick only four techniques this time. Had he tried to pick five he would have

think he would be able to complete five premium techniques as quickly as he would have