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

based off of the training sessions alone, 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 with either successors or superior techniques operating on the same principle in the future to strengthen the

was for a

four techniques he had

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

to maximize the amount of time he dedicated to training the technique. He didn't want to be held back from completing missions because he took forever to master Seismic Mapping. Other Apprentices might

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

even seriously considered dedicating entire days of continuous training to purely Seismic Mapping training. He could simply make every alternate day a Seismic Mapping

thought of the training put Rui in a good mood. This was the first technique whose training

ordinary mastery." He thought aloud. He even thought he could make it

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 might end up being the

That left two techniques.

and Inner

He noted. "So, it gets more training

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

Had he tried to pick five he would

didn't think he would be able to complete five premium techniques as quickly as he would