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

the symbiote with the brain goes as smoothly as possible." Doctor Leela informed

and provided to doctor Heela. A spot on his wrist was rubbed with an antibacterial as a

begin the implantation of the Mindmirror symbiote."

the syringe plunged past

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

on the screens behind him, carefully watching it without

entered the bonding site." Doctor Leela

no idea how they knew that, but he suspected it was likely esoteric technology that allowed them

passed, as Rui simply lay unmoving patiently. He had already known it

noted. "Prepare the RP-154 and

swiftly prepared certain potions, ready to administer them to him the moment

brain according to doctor Heela's remarks. That was even scarier than if he had been able to

before he got

succeeded." The doctor nodded. "The

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 it began

know anything that you

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

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