The Martial Unity

[Mindmirror Worm

Grade: 10

Difficulty grade: 10

The Mindmirror Worm is an extremely rare worm that inhabits the Beast Domain. It infiltrates a potential host's system via ingestion or inhalation while it is still in the spore form before entering the bloodstream. It is one of the only symbiotes that aids the most vital organ in the human body: The brain...]

Rui's eyes widened at those words. The brain was an extraordinarily fragile organ, and Rui didn't understand how an invasive symbiote could not only not damage it but also somehow benefit it.

He continued reading on interest.

[The spore attaches itself to the bottom of the temporal lobe and the frontal lobe before it gathers the genetic information of the host through the blood and begins reproducing the brain cells known as 'neurons' in the gap between the brain and the skull plates below the brain. It saturates the gap, forming a small organ made up of neurons that are intimately connected to the host's brain.

is capable of boosting reactions and aids with mentally strenuous

extremely high degree, increasing the need for sleep, and causing the brain to need to sleep for an extra fifty percent without potions. It exceeds ordinary human parameters in so far as the mental stress it puts

that the difficulty grade of the technique is grade ten. It is estimated

parameters because of their cerebral augmentations. This symbiote was

equally high. Just the fact that there are high stakes at risk, for failure to master the technique alone means that it's game over. An

extreme affinity for there to even be a reasonably-high possibility of mastery. Rui wasn't conventionally talented; one of his

he had come to realize that in the context of this technique, he might actually possess the 'talent' needed for it; extremely high mental parameters. He also had an affinity with it because the core of his

most certainly had not missed the glaring oddity it was to place a grade-ten technique at the very top of a list for someone who had merely expressed

thinking what I'm thinking?"

was far from a secret that Rui's mental parameters were far above baseline Martial Apprentices with the same amount of experience and time in the Apprentice Realm as him.

had on him, then Rui could see

someone like Rui to succeed in mastering the Mindmirror Symbiote then there were probably no Martial Apprentices

the matter carefully. The benefits and demerits

his mastery of it would skyrocket. The sheer