Deep inside the mental technique training facility in an isolated room, Rui sat with crossed legs and closed eyes
He was stoic, unmoving.
The walls of the isolated room were padded tiled with an esoteric substance found in the caves of the Basara Mountain range far west of the town of Hajin, that insulated sound to an extremely high degree. Not a single decibel managed to escape its grasp.
It was so silent that Rui could nothing but his own heartbeat and his own breathing.
Yet, they did not distract him.
No.
They guided him in the void.
The guided him as he traversed through his own vast mind palace.
His body was in the Academy.
His consciousness was also in the Academy.
Yet, they were not in the same place.
One was in a real physical location, and the other was in a figment of his imagination thoroughly reconstructed inside his own mind.
He walked across his mind palace leisurely. Nonchalantly. Every location of his mind palace had documents and files neatly stacked on top of each other. Normally, it would be irresponsible to stack them that way, instead of in a drawer or file cabinet.
fell over? They would certainly get
But Rui didn't mind.
his mind palace, gravity existed
simply
occasionally pick up a document. He would carefully open it up, scroll through its content with interest before closing it and putting
way to the Apprentice dormitory, accessing his
quite different from its real-life
furniture was all
the center was a
On its cover was;
and
By John Falken]
after the final iteration of the VOID algorithm
final chapter, reading through a
verifying whether or not the VOID algorithm is viable. If it is, then the Project will end on the spot, but if not, we will continue working for as long as it takes to realize this project and succeed. We here at Combat Spots Research Co.
he had written that bit with. And yet, many years later, he had ultimately failed
walk it. And after much blood, sweat and tears, he had finally come to take a step further in the
going to take that step
book with force, and instantly, his mind palace
He opened his eyes.
"I have arrived."
originally began his training. The techniques themselves had been mastered nearly a month ago. The problem was getting used
had found that even if he was able to use the technique, it was too slow. He needed to become so adept with it
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