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.

that serves as an additional lobe for the brain. This secondary lobe is capable of boosting reactions

in so far as the mental stress it puts on the brain. The symbiote is also sentient and inherently power-hungry and does attempt to take over the brain of the host. Often succeeding in the cases of Martial Apprentices without powerful

grade of the technique is grade ten.

were significantly above baseline human parameters because of their cerebral augmentations. This symbiote was effectively providing a boost that was not too far from the boost that Martial Apprentices gained thanks

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

and extreme affinity for there to even be a reasonably-high possibility of mastery. Rui wasn't conventionally talented; one of his biggest advantages came over from inheriting an already-developed mind

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

this is literally at the very top of the list?" Rui wondered. He 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 interest in symbiotic techniques. That was a conscious decision

thinking what I'm thinking?" He wondered out

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

had the authority to look into the data the Martial Academy had on him, then Rui could see why

succeed in mastering the Mindmirror Symbiote then there were probably no Martial Apprentices in

The

mastered the symbiote, the viability issue of the VOID algorithm would not only be completely and entirely gone, but his mastery of it would skyrocket. The sheer amount of information he would be able to promise would be