The Martial Unity

In the span of twenty-four hours, Rui experienced the training regimes of all six techniques. Once he finished training with Squire Dylon for the Tempestuous Ripple and Flow Flux training, he had immediately headed for the training sessions of the remaining four techniques.

He immediately headed to the mental technique training facility to begin training the Mind Palace technique. He was fascinated by the process.

"Your mind palace needs to be based on locations from your memories that you know quite intimately." A squire instructor of the mind technique training facilities told him. "You need to be able to visualize them with extreme precision and accuracy consistently. That is why it is best to use locations you are most familiar with. The most common kinds of mind palaces involve using your home, the Academy, since you've spent years living here. Your hometown maybe, whatever works. The more mind palaces you have, the better."

Rui nodded.

Thankfully, he wasn't short on such locations. In this life alone, the Quarrier orphanage and the Academy could serve as viable mind palaces. In his previous life, he had his parents' home, his home, the research institute he worked at, and even the hospital he spent a lot of time in, later in his life. Those were six locations that he could begin polishing his imagination of to serve as six mind palaces eventually.

What he discovered, however, was that the Mind Palace technique was more compatible with him than he had ever imagined. One's visualization capabilities was the most important ability needed to master the Mind Palace technique. It was the one area where his mind, that had undergone two lifetimes of development, could shine the most, showing off its cognitive capabilities.

Rui had begun making frightening progress as he began dedicating himself to the technique. In merely the span of four hours, he accomplished what most Martial Apprentices accomplished in an entire month. He had never experienced such affinity with any Martial Art technique.

Squire instructor who was guiding him even refused to believe this was the first he was learning

shrugged, letting him believe what he wanted. Merely being smart would not explain his progress with the technique and he did not want to be asked sensitive questions that

the Mind Palace technique and was far too distracted with the matter. Although he had initially been optimistic when he had the revelation that the technique could solve the problem of the

his high affinity and his rate of mastery of the Mind Palace technique allowed him a greater degree of confidence and optimism than before. At this rate of mastery,

and usage into muscle memory and into his reflexes, only then would it become viable to use it mid-battle. He would need to restructure the way he stored data amidst battles, and that wouldn't

out with an immense degree of satisfaction and elation once he exited the training session at the end of four hours. Although he would have

not quite

finished a

flesh, but only enough to ensure that the conditioning effects of the training would not disappear. High-grade potions would undo everything and return his flesh back to how it was before. Only after his conditioned flesh became the normal

The healed skin after he consumed a healing potion would have greater and denser layers of epithelial tissue

after the conditioning training was no longer able to inflict meaningful damage

the enthusiasm he

no masochistic tendencies, and that training was pure torture, even the Stinger

Tempestuous Ripple technique, so he was