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.
over? They would certainly get dusty
But Rui didn't mind.
inside his mind palace, gravity existed to help feel comfortable as he navigated
dust simply did
He would carefully open it up, scroll through its content with interest
his way to the
different from its
furniture was all
center
On its cover was;
and the
By John Falken]
published after the final iteration of the VOID algorithm
chapter,
Project Water is not yet complete. The next phase of our research is aimed at verifying whether or not the VOID algorithm is viable. If it is, then the Project will end on the spot, but
enthuse he had written that
woken up in a strange new world, with strange new phenomena. He was shown a new path, and he chose to walk it. And after much blood, sweat and tears, he had finally come to take a step further
was going to take
shut the book with force, and
He opened his eyes.
"I have arrived."
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
more than just basic mastery. Rui had found that even if he was able to use the technique, it was too slow. He needed to become
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