The Martial Unity

"Apprentice Quarrier." A doctor greeted him when he reached the designated room for the procedure to occur. "We've been expecting you. I am Doctor Herin. I will be overlooking the administration of the hallucinogens that you will be undergoing during the procedure."

"Pleasure to meet you, doctor. Will you be overlooking the procedure as a whole?" Rui asked.

"That would be me." A voice addressed him from behind, entering the room.

Rui didn't even need to turn to recognize the presence of the Martial Squire.

"I am Squire Luna." The old woman told him. "I will be overlooking the actual explorative procedure."

Accompanied her was a Martial Apprentice. Rui wasn't sure what his presence here was for, but he didn't question it.

"Pleasure to meet you." Rui greeted. "When can we begin the procedure?"

"Immediately." She replied, gesturing at a medical bed. "Lie down there."

"A few tests will be conducted to make sure you are fit for the procedure." Doctor Herin explained. "We will be subjecting you to hallucinogens, after all. It won't take much time at all, however."

"I understand," Rui nodded, as an interesting thought came to mind. "Do Martial Apprentices require an increased dosage of hallucinogens for them to be effective?"

was quite plausible. The brains of a Martial Apprentice were quite resilient in many ways, it was quite reasonable

"We're giving you an increased dosage to achieve the desired level of

made sense, raising the dosage would definitely be needed if Martial Apprentices were indeed more

the exact dosage needed for me,

Martial Apprentices were more resilient, surely different Martial Apprentices had different degrees of resilience, which would

"The data from the reports of your verification examination give us all the necessary information to accurately and precisely estimate the necessary amount of

he pondered the implications of those words. This meant that from the data that verified that he had fulfilled both conditions

to be too vague to provide them with something that specific. This led Rui to suspect that the metabolic data on him that had been acquired during the procedure was likely what allowed them

not have a bearing on the state and nature of his mind, would be correlated

blood, something

will be completed, you may, of course, leave and

his word. The results of the test came back remarkably

to begin." The doctor confirmed as several nurses, as well as the Martial Squire and

head were

having a Mindmirror Symbiote in this procedure?" Rui

natural way. It could only aid the user in any way if the Mindmirror Symbiote is mentally embedded with the neurological processes of the particular task that

neurological phenomena. Resistance to hallucinogens was not something

and cannot be a victim of hallucinogens, it simply

information. "Does the presence of the Mindmirror Symbiote interfere with the