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."

devices and instruments. Soon he was injected with

possible." Doctor Leela informed him as she injected

brought and provided to doctor Heela. A spot on his wrist was rubbed with

the Mindmirror

thick needle of the syringe plunged

Doctor Heela instructed as a nurse duly administered a healing potion to him, to stop the bleeding and

turned their attention to the projections on the screens behind him, carefully

has entered the bonding

idea how they knew that, but he suspected it was likely esoteric technology that allowed them to keep track of

Rui simply lay unmoving patiently. He had already known it was going to be a

Heela noted.

comprehend. The nurses however swiftly prepared certain potions,

his brain according to doctor Heela's remarks. That was even scarier than if

before he got an update

has succeeded." The doctor nodded. "The development phase has begun.

began administering Rui with potions periodically. The potions were physical rejuvenating potions and nutrient potions, but he didn't feel all that rejuvenated. The reason was, of course, known. All of the energy and nutrition supplied to his body was inevitably consumed by the Mindmirror Symbiote as

you feel." Doctor

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

still had a very shallow connection with his brain. It would