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?"

best suited to your Martial Art and your Martial Path. There is an endless kind of bodies that can be forged 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 speed, agility, and mobility at the expense of power and

and balance for each particular Squire candidate in question. 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 conflicts with their

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

era was the process of mental induction by

a Martial Apprentice, least of all Rui. The hallucinogens reduced the resistance and made it easier to exercise imagination, all it did was require a powerful suggestion to allow the

most nations had resulted in the plan to simply ban all of the relevant

the actual breakthrough procedure. This was effectively highly altered experiences of reality that were

the drugs and hypnosis harmless and temporary?" Rui

body, he would

harmless with no permanent influence on the

have the Mindmirror Symbiote

Art and Martial Path. It

tasks to

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 narrow down the precise and exact kind of Martial body that clicks with you and your Martial Art. Once you have done that, your initial goal will

amount of drugs