The Martial Unity

"Good, you've understood the procedure." The doctor nodded as Rui explained the procedure perfectly. "Have you made sure to satisfy the conditions for being viable for the procedure? Have you consumed alcohol in the past week?"

"No, I haven't." Rui confirmed.

"Have you consumed psychedelic drugs in the past forty days?" The doctor asked.

"Not at all."

"Did you get two nights of natural normal sleep without having consumed any mental rejuvenation potions?"

"I did." Rui assured.

The medical procedure required him to be awake till the procedure ended. Being asleep increased the probability that a complication would occur. The medical team would also be using rejuvenation potions before the secondary bonding occurred in order to ensure he was at his peak, mentally. However, an abuse of mental rejuvenation potions before the procedure began would reduce the effectiveness of the mental rejuvenation potions administered to him during the procedure, increasing the probability of failure of the procedure.

"Good. We'll be verifying this anyway with a few quick blood tests, of course." She smiled at him.

They quickly drew some blood with a special syringe that was able to pierce his conditioned skin. Thankfully, the results came within an hour.

"Good news, you're fit to undergo the procedure." Doctor Heela told him. "We'll begin shortly. We need to inject a few serums before you're ready for the implantation."

prepared all the devices and instruments. Soon he was injected with a

brain goes as smoothly as possible." Doctor Leela informed him as she injected the final one, explaining their purposes. A few minutes later, the procedure was

to doctor Heela. A spot on his wrist

will begin the implantation of the Mindmirror symbiote."

of the syringe plunged past his conditioned skin

administered a healing potion to him,

attention to the projections on the screens behind him, carefully watching it without

bonding

how they knew that, but he suspected it was likely esoteric technology that allowed them to keep track of the symbiote via some physical trait that made its location

unmoving patiently. He had already known it was going to be

noted. "Prepare the RP-154

few more instructions that Rui failed to comprehend. The nurses however swiftly prepared certain potions, ready to administer them to him the moment they

a thing despite the fact that the Mindmirror Symbiote had already bonded with his brain

passed before he got

"The development phase has begun. Begin the potion

didn't feel all that rejuvenated. The reason was, of course, known. All of the energy and nutrition supplied to his body was inevitably

know anything that you feel." Doctor Heela

nodded briefly. He found it rather amazing that he still wasn't able to feel anything quite yet. Yet there was a technical explanation for that as well, of course. The brain didn't have any sensory nerve endings as most organs did, thus it

connection with his brain. It would take quite some