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.
if they 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 comfortable as he
dust simply
document. He would carefully open it up, scroll through its content with interest before closing it and putting it back
way to the Apprentice
was quite different from its real-life
furniture was
the center
On its cover was;
Water and the VOID
By John Falken]
publication he had published after the final iteration of the VOID
final chapter, reading through a specific
complete and functioning, 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 if not, we will continue working for as long as it takes to realize this project and succeed. We
his eyes. He recalled the confidence and enthuse he had written that bit with. And yet, many years
he chose to walk it. And after much
going to take
force, and
He opened his eyes.
"I have arrived."
had been mastered nearly a month ago. The problem was getting used to them and learning how to apply them in combat, building comfort and some amount of muscle memory
Rui had found that even if he was able to use the technique, it was too slow. He needed to
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