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?"

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 speed, agility, and mobility at the expense of power and durability. It is

If the wrong configuration was applied, then the Martial Path of the Martial Artist in question would forever be ruined by a Martial body that

invested an immense amount of research and development funding into this matter so that Martial Artists had a more reliable and less risky route of

era was the process

hallucinogens reduced the resistance and made it easier to exercise imagination, all it did was require a powerful suggestion to

out-of-world experience that worried the authorities of most nations had

was quite useful in allowing the Martial Apprentices to experience the hallucinogen with realistic Martial bodies before the actual breakthrough procedure. This

of the drugs and hypnosis harmless and temporary?" Rui asked

extraordinarily important to him, more so than any other part of his body, he

permanent

eyes. "I have the Mindmirror Symbiote in my head, does that

at all." Squire Gunther replied "The procedure is verifiably for all kinds of Martial Art and Martial Path.

unconvinced. "So what exactly are my tasks to

images and sensations of a completely different body" he explained. "Once you have locked down a general type of Martial body that you are looking for, your job is to

of drugs