The Martial Unity

He quickly exchanged all of his hard-earned martial credits for the techniques, before sitting down at the Apprentice Library to memorize their training methods.

Out of all the three, The Stinger's training was the most painful and least pleasant by far. The training of the technique involved the repeated damaging of the toe to cause micro-fractures that when healed via healing potions would strengthen the bone structure to stronger than it ever was, while also reshaping the bone and the flesh to become more conducive to piercing.

This was not something Rui was unfamiliar with as a concept. It was a well-documented fact that pressure and the reconstruction of microfractures strengthened the bone. There were several traditional martial arts on Earth that used this kind of conditioning to strengthen bones. The most popular ones being Karate, Kung Fu and Muay Thai. Each applied this principle in different way to varying degrees.

But the Stinger technique's training took it to a whole other level.

It was a long and painful process that was nothing short of pure torture. This was one of the reasons it had an abnormally high difficulty grade. Too many students who had undertaken this training had simply quit. Only ten-percent of the Martial Apprentices who had purchased this technique had the determination to see it to the very end.

The excruciating pain was simply too much for most of them, the power of the technique was simply not worth the agony that the technique's training regime entailed, only a handful of Martial Apprentices possessed the fortitude needed to complete the training.

through to the very end as well, the lethality of the technique was extremely attractive, it would benefit him not just in the Martial Contest, but it would help him in all future missions as

enemy Martial Apprentice and rejoin with Bella before she was found and

comparison, the remaining two techniques had training regimes that were far

timings of feints by wearing suits that froze motion at the right moment so that Rui would understand the timing for feints of each maneuver. The training involved Rui learning to replicate that timing so as to be able

undergone it once and was quite familiar with how the Academy trained feinting maneuvering techniques. Thus, he would likely master this technique the quickest because he wouldn't need to go through the adjustment phase of the training

Stinger's training regime was going to be, he would like it if, at the very least one of the

he would be

the danger and precognitive instinct of the human mind could

it treated the subconscious instinct of the human

By straining them with weight against their motion. A similar principle was applied to the subconscious instinct of the

to. He had gone through similar training for the Seismic Mapping

that the Seismic Mapping technique almost completely sealed off all senses so that Rui's mind would be forced to subconsciously rely more and more on sensing the seismic radiation to be able to perceive the environment and objects in the surroundings as well as the movements of these objects, as long