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.

at the training sessions that he

way. Each of the

that he 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

for a distant

delved onto the four techniques he had picked up and the

He murmured to himself, sighing. It was quite the unpleasant training session, but

to be held back from completing missions because he took forever to master Seismic Mapping. Other Apprentices might be used to

felt it was probably to have longer training sessions in one go. The

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

in a good mood. This was the

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

decided to allot it the least amount of training timing. He suspected that

That left two techniques.

Convergence and

was definitely harder." He noted. "So,

would have to chink out the details and be more thorough to be as efficient as possible, but the

chosen to pick only four techniques this time. Had he tried to pick five he would have quickly realized that it was probably too

able to complete five premium techniques as quickly as he would