The Martial Unity

"But you're a Martial Squire." Rui frowned.

"I held back to match your physical power." He shrugged. "As long as you master it perfectly, the result shouldn't deviate much from this."

Rui was quite excited at the prospect of obtaining that kind of lethality, that he resumed the torture training immediately. This time, he even stopped screaming. Bearing the pain and putting his toe through utter hell with each kick.

A little over an hour passed, and he had just completed a thousand kicks!

He glanced at his toe, after he healed it for the tenth time. It didn't look any different at all. But, that obviously to be expected, if the process would be completed over the span of a million kicks, then there would be no visible progress over merely just a thousand kicks, which was 0.1% of the total progress.

The bone reconstruction process was a well-understood one. Bone had an incredible ability to adapt to mechanical loads or pressure we place upon it. According to Wolff's Law, a bone's internal framework, known as trabeculae is initially weakened when strained and micro-fractured by mechanical stress, thereby triggering a rebuilding process that eventually made the bone denser. The hard outer shell of the bone also became a little thicker with time. This was how bone could become stronger.

It was a long process that required prolonged period of just the right amount of stress and strain to the bones. It was not a process that could be sped up too much, even with healing potions.

Rui sighed, before proceeding to continue. He usually spent many hours on a single technique, and as painful as the Stinger technique was, he did not want to skip out on it.

only an hour, he would feel like he was admitting defeat! Thus he continued and persevered until several hours later, he finally managed to

he consumed a potion, the pain reset. As dozens of these rounds went by, he grew more and more accustomed to the excruciating pain. He wasn't sure how the hell he was going to get to one million, but he knew he

this was just the first session. He put a halt to

was perfectly healed and functional, but

the maneuvering training facility. The next technique

this training session after the dreadful training session of the Stinger technique. He knew the training

reached, he searched for the head

Instructor Veena." He bowed once more, before explaining that he'd arrived to train for the Phantom

proceeded was a relatively smooth training session with no hiccups. Rui donned the body suit that was required for the prescribed training regime of

wide variety of maneuvers that he would normally perform in a fight. Punches, kicks, jabs, dives, dodges, blocks, shuffles and things of that nature. The bodysuit was actually a piece of equipment that could be frozen at a particular spot remotely by a device in possession of the supervising instructor. As Rui shadow-fought, his instructor would freeze the suit at the correct timing

these common motions he made, at which stopping abruptly would produce the most effective feint. By being stopped exactly the right timing and placement, Rui would be able

to the absolute highest degree. It exploited the kinesthetic