The Martial Unity

"Instructor Dylon." Rui bowed.

"Hm?" Squire turned away from supervising some training of other students, recognizing him on the spot. "Oh, Quarrier. Is it four techniques this time?"

"Only three." Rui corrected him modestly.

"..."

"I'm here to learn this." Rui waved the Stinger technique scroll. "Care to help me out?"

Dylon winced when he saw the name. "I hope you're prepared. This is going to be rough, not to mention messy.

"Thanks a lot for that, truly helpful." Rui replied.

"Not at all, I'm just here to help after al- Wait, is that sarcasm? That's sarcasm, isn't it?"

"Can we begin immediately?" Rui asked, ignoring him. "I have a busy schedule."

"Of course, you do." Dylon replied, snorting. "Your life is a busy schedule, you're never gonna lose your virginity, you know. Why not forget about learning this technique and instead learn how to pick up girls, or boys, if you swing that way."

"If the Martial Academy ever did have such a teaching post, you wouldn't be hired for it." Rui assured. "Don't think I forgot how Instructor Kyrie rejected your ass by publicly beating you up in front of all your students." Rui ruthlessly reminded.

"Guh!" Instructor Dylon collapsed to his knees, clutching his chest in pain. "With this kind of offense, you don't need to master any other technique."

Rui sighed, exasperated. "Stop fooling around, let's get to work."

"No fun, are you?" He sighed, disappointed. "You've memorized the training regime, haven't you?"

"Every word." Rui confirmed.

you don't really need me very much. The

equipment at one end of the

dummy, meant to be kicked. Asides from some unusual features, nothing about its appearance was too different from

by the Martial Academy specifically for the training of the Stinger technique.

jelly like substance, a semi-solid substance through with one could insert fingers and toes like ordinary jelly. It was not rigid, and allowed objects to pass through it. Rui was supposed to kick at it with his toe,

engineered such that it would absorb the energy of the impact and use the same energy of Rui's own kick to press

reshape, restructure and strengthen Rui's toe. Where did this energy come from? From Rui's own attack that would be absorbed by the esoteric

the user's own energy to continuously pressure and damage the toe, flesh and skin,

when Rui's toe healed from the micro-injuries, it would be ever so slightly stronger, and its shape would be ever so slightly closer to what was required for the Stinger technique. Of course,

kicks?" Dylon scratched his head, trying to recall. "One million kicks against

structure resembled a bullet, while the skin and flesh would become extremely rough like sand paper and as

it was, but he didn't need to. He was about to

his right leg for a kick, while

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a truck had run over his toe, the jelly absorbed the energy of his impact and used it to grind

looked at his bruised

a serious tone. "You can't stop right after you start, you know

could only consume an extremely-low-grade healing potion meant for the training only after

kiddo." He instructed.

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