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 dusty

But Rui didn't mind.

effectively an omnipotent god inside his mind palace, gravity existed to help feel

simply did

would carefully open it up, scroll through its content with interest before closing it and putting it back exactly where it

he made his way to the Apprentice dormitory,

quite different from its

was all

center

On its cover was;

Water and

By John Falken]

final iteration of the VOID algorithm

chapter, reading through a

will end on the spot, but

eyes. He recalled the confidence and enthuse he had written that bit with. And yet, many years later, he had ultimately failed and later

phenomena. He was shown a new path, and he chose to walk it. And after much blood, sweat

to take that

book with force, and instantly, his

He opened his eyes.

"I have arrived."

total of seven months had passed since he originally began his training. The techniques themselves had been mastered nearly a month ago. The problem was getting used to them and learning how to apply them in combat, building comfort

basic mastery. Rui had found that even if he was able to use the technique, it was too slow. He needed to become so adept with it that he could enter it and exit

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