The Martial Unity

"How high of a risk is death?" Rui asked.

He had previously been under the impression that becoming a Squire candidate got rid of all the risks of the procedure.

"Not insignificant, that's for sure." He sighed.

"I thought the point of the first condition of Squire candidacy was to ensure that the subject survived the procedure." Rui probed.

"The first condition of Squire candidacy is the bare minimum to ensure you won't automatically die due to brain death due to the procedure." He explained. "There is no way to guarantee the absolute success of the procedure, not without extraordinarily high-grade potions and things of that nature. Certainly things beyond your reach as a Martial Apprentice."

"I see..." Rui pondered deep in thought.

"Each Martial body is usually perfectly tailored to suit the Martial Apprentice and their Martial Art and Martial Path of the Martial Apprentice in question." He told Rui. "We do this by allowing the user to experience a taste of what the Squire Realm is like through certain hallucinogens and hypnosis techniques."

"What?" Rui's eyes widened in surprise. "I need to be drugged and hypnotized in order for me to discover my Martial body?"

by adjusting the process and changing several parts of it. It is possible to obtain a heavy body with high muscular and bone mass relative to net body mass. It is possible to obtain a light nimble body that places weight on

candidate in question. If the wrong configuration was applied, then the Martial Path of the

research and development funding into this matter so that Martial Artists had a more reliable and less risky route of breaking into the

effective solution in the modern era was the process of mental induction by a combination of

and made it easier to exercise imagination, all it did was

had resulted in the plan to

Apprentices to experience the hallucinogen with realistic Martial bodies before the actual breakthrough procedure. This was effectively highly altered

of the drugs and

his body, he would watch his own body get annihilated before he allowed something to

harmless with no permanent influence

"I have the Mindmirror Symbiote in

for all kinds of Martial Art and Martial Path. It is a perfectly harmless procedure that does not negatively impact symbiotes in

my tasks to do in this maelstrom

type of Martial body that you are looking for, your job is to narrow

just going to have to take some amount of drugs and be hypnotized in order