The Martial Unity

Normally, conscious reaction functioned like so;

Perception -> Processing -> Decision making -> Reaction.

But Hever's mastery of Meteor Swing functioned like so;

Perception -> Muscle memory -> Reaction.

Of course, this was extremely difficult to accomplish. It took a long time to build such immense amount of muscle memory. Merely general mastery of a technique was not enough.

This was the fruit of five continuous unhalted rigorous years of training with the Meteor Swing technique. The Meteor Swing was a counter-offensive technique, it was meant to be used when the user was attacked.

By practicing the Meteor Swing over and over and over against countless kinds of attacks, he had burned those motions into his muscle memory.

If someone threw a punch at his face, he no longer needed to think and react, his muscle memory remembered what to do when someone threw a punch at his face. The speed of subconscious sensory recollection and muscle memory was far superior to the speed of conscious cognition. Thus, he reacted earlier and there was no delay in his maneuvers caused by conscious reactive processing, because it had been replaced by the quicker muscle memory.

This was why, even though his motion and movement speed were limited, he was still able to perform extraordinarily quick maneuvers because his reactions and motions were not hindered by the tedious process of conscious cognition.

This was why he was able to keep up with Nel.

"That's unbelievable." Fae murmured, impressed.

"But why doesn't everybody do this?" Kane asked, frowning. "If muscle memory is this useful, why don't more Martial Artists take his route? Won't it make more sense to go down this route."

Rui shook his head. "In most cases, dedicating yourself to a single technique will lead to lower growth than mastering multiple techniques. The reason it's worked out so well has to do with the fact that the technique he picked covers everything; defense, offense and can handle a lot of styles as far as compatibility goes. Furthermore, it's a grade-nine technique as far potency and difficulty go. And finally... It has to do with Hever himself. His affinity and talent with that technique and counter-offensive grappling must be extremely high. All of these factor into why it worked out for him."

see..." Fae muttered as she turned back to the

BOOM!

threw slammed Nel onto the ground after intercepting yet another

BOOM!

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battle. This battle was such a bizarre battle that they were sure they would never see

like a ragdoll over and over." Kane said.

Rui disagreed, glancing back

true that Hever was intercepting, defending and countering every attack while landing successful throws

"His constitution is strong. The

wasn't getting faster, he was getting more and more used to the timing. This wasn't the same as the VOID algorithm, which would have adapted than he did, but it was a result of the natural optimization capabilities

this rate..."

seldom existed. Nel was exhibiting a level of toughness that only Dalen could match while showing off speed that only Kane would surpass. Both of those were quite unconducive to Hever's Martial Art. Usually people did not last long enough to adapt to his Martial Art. Prior to fighting Nel, no one lasted for more than

Nel, with the durability to endure many strikes and the speed to potentially overwhelm the Meteor Swing technique once he grew completely used to the timing

the slightest change in the

Just the slightest.

monotony of the match, not a

he took

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managed to successfully

no one missed

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had ceded even more