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.

the brain. This secondary lobe is capable of boosting reactions and aids with mentally strenuous

potions. It exceeds ordinary human parameters in

grade ten. It is estimated that only someone with extraordinary mental

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

high. Just the fact that there are high stakes at risk, for failure to master the technique alone means that

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 and the

possess the 'talent' needed for it; extremely high mental parameters. He also had an affinity with it because the core of his Martial

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

what I'm thinking?" He wondered

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. The Martial Academy had carefully recorded and

look into the data the Martial Academy had on him, then Rui could see why this particular Symbiote had been put

the Mindmirror Symbiote then there were probably no Martial Apprentices in

pondered the matter carefully. The benefits and demerits were

mastery of it would skyrocket. The sheer amount of information he would be able to promise would be far greater than