The Martial Unity

Rui had gotten a good long sleep that night, resting his weary mind and spirit. He slept rare, so when he did sleep, he slept for a good nine hours of deep sleep. Feeling rejuvenated, he was already prepared for the next mission.

He did not feel the need to take a break or unwind, he was determined to gather as many martial credits he could six months before the Kandrian Martial Festival. That meant pushing himself to the absolute maximum.

The reason he limited himself to at most six months before the Kandrian Martial Festival was because he needed time not just to master the individual techniques, but become familiar with using these new techniques with the rest of his Martial Art, he knew that the next round of training would also require the most amount of adjustment time.

The larger his Martial Art grew, the harder it was and longer it took to fully integrate new techniques. This was because having more options made it harder to choose. If one had to make a choice between two options, and two hundred options, one would obviously have a much harder time with the latter than the former.

This was an exaggerated version of what Rui was going through as he grew stronger. He had undergone three rounds of training ever since he became a Martial Apprentice.

The first round he had learnt very foundational techniques; Vital Pressure, Elastic Shift, Parallel Walk and Acute Edge and Helical Breathing. There was absolutely no large variety of options here. He barely had one technique for one field, and there were many fields his Martial Art needed to have had zero fields.

Making choices were extremely easy when you had only one choice.

round involved filling the gaping holes in his Martial Art; with techniques like Flowing Canon, Binding

shortcomings, at the end of

training he had undergone was a bit different. Now his Martial Art had a total of fourteen techniques. This

needed to be able to master these techniques not just individually but also in

merely a week to grow comfortable with all techniques, since Outer Convergence and

the next round of would be different. If he did in fact learn four to five techniques in totality, then he would have a total of eighteen to nineteen techniques in total. This was no trivial matter, he

a time limit for missions such that he would have just enough time after the technique training to ensure that his fluidity and comfort in using these techniques in conjugation

able to participate in the Martial Festival with his Martial Art at its peak form. He would rather forgo mastering more techniques in order to truly master a few number of techniques. It meant nothing if he had all these powerful techniques if he did not know how to apply them optimally and apply them with other techniques optimally. His Martial Art would simply be no more than a haphazardous cluster of

technique was like having a very high-quality tool, but if you did not know how to use these tools

be the latter than the former, he believed in control above all. And

did not intend to cross his limit, he would go all out in earning martial credits, and then ensure he spent