The Martial Unity

"I should purchase techniques that will allow me to deal with things I currently can't deal with." He murmured. As far as missions went, he was incompetent at shadow-class missions and sub-par as far as hunter-class missions went.

He had long wanted to do something about that, but each time a training stage came around, there was always something or the other of greater importance. Finally, he was at a stage where he could pursue it straightforwardly.

"Alright, time to nail these two issues," Rui murmured as he walked over to the stealth section of the Apprentice Library. It wasn't his first time going for a stealth technique, he had purchased Blink, after all. The problem was that Blink was highly limited.

For starters, it was beginning to become obsolete at the higher echelons of the Apprentice Realm as Martial Apprentices tended to have naturally strong senses and many of them did have sensory techniques as well. He needed to use it extremely carefully else it could actually turn out to be detrimental to him.

Furthermore, as a stealth technique, it only worked to evade human evasion when there were few humans. It was impossible to use Blink to bypass even decent surveillance.

He didn't hold it against the technique, of course. The technique had served him well and had saved him in truly desperate situations, but it was no longer adequate.

"Alright then," He murmured. "Let's see what we have here."

There were plenty of techniques that boosted stealth, but what he was looking for was a high-grade technique that wholistically gave him stealth. He glanced over at a technique that caught his eye.

[Dead Step]

production of noise in the air by manipulating air via a coordinated breathing technique that cancels out the sound waves

a half ago when he had purchased

was more alluring now,

more potent.')

each training stage. He wasn't interested in learning lower-grade techniques unless there

until he ran

[Void Step]

had almost zero talent or compatibility with the technique, so purchasing it would be a waste of money. It was a shame, of course. He deeply desired the

on,

technique lit his

[Shadow Step]

completely evade the senses of ordinary humans the way Void Step did with Martial Apprentices. It was only partially effective against Martial Apprentices under several conditions. It was less effective the closer the surveilling Martial Apprentice target was to him, and only worked if he was in the far peripheral ends of

allowed him to bypass even Martial Artist surveillance with some amount of effort. This technique covered his basic needs perfectly well. His biggest issue wasn't that he didn't have

Vinfrana and the Hefermaine Village would have gone

grade-seven technique. Which meant he could guarantee that he would master it as

although the potency of the technique was grade seven, Rui suspected his stealth would end up being greater than just what the technique would provide him. The Mind Mask technique could allow him to significantly lower his presence, which worked very synergically with the Shadow Step technique

likely had an extremely high

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