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?"

of a Martial Apprentice were quite resilient in many ways, it was quite reasonable that this resilience extended to resistance influence of drugs such

actually." He replied. "We're giving you an increased dosage to achieve the desired level of

be needed if

do you know the exact dosage needed for me, in particular?"

surely different Martial Apprentices had different degrees of resilience, which would then

patiently. "The data from

lit up in interest as he pondered the implications of those words. This meant that from the data that verified that he had fulfilled both conditions of Squire candidacy, his resilience towards these drugs could be

with something that specific. This led Rui to suspect that the metabolic data on him

be correlated with resilience. Thus, that meant that they

proceeded to draw some blood, something that hadn't been done in the

before the tests will be completed, you may, of

true to his word. The results of the test came

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

limbs, neck, and head were

any issues by having a Mindmirror Symbiote

general base intelligence or capacities in any natural way. It could only aid the user in any way if the Mindmirror Symbiote is mentally embedded with the neurological

phenomena. Resistance to hallucinogens was not something that

come in contact with the hallucinogen, naturally, through your bloodstream. However, it's not conscious and cannot be a victim of hallucinogens, it simply is utterly incapable of falling for the hallucinogens and

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