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.

secondary brain that serves as an additional lobe for the brain. This secondary lobe is capable of boosting reactions and aids with mentally strenuous and time-consuming processes. It's an incredible boost that

nutritional expenditure and mentally burdens the brain to an 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 on the brain. The symbiote is also sentient

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

almost irresistible. Martial Apprentices were significantly above baseline human parameters because of their cerebral augmentations. This symbiote was effectively providing a boost

of the technique is grade ten." Rui sighed. "But the difficulty is equally high. Just the fact that there are high stakes at risk, for

possibility of mastery. Rui wasn't conventionally talented; one

in the context of this technique, he might actually possess the 'talent' needed for it; extremely high mental parameters. He also had an

literally at the very top of the list?" Rui wondered. He most certainly had not missed the glaring oddity it was to place a

thinking what

parameters were far above baseline Martial Apprentices with the same amount of experience and time in

Martial Academy had on him,

Mindmirror Symbiote then there were probably no Martial Apprentices in the Kandrian Empire who had

matter carefully. The

but his mastery of it would