The Martial Unity

"Your resistance towards mental techniques is quite remarkable, even for a Squire candidate." Squire Luna informed him. "Apprentice Frix here alone wasn't able to maintain the hypnosis because you were developing too much of a resistance, I had to step in personally."

"Ah..." Rui recalled that he was able to resist offensive mental techniques. He recalled the first round of the Martial Contest where he had fought against a mental technique Martial Artist. He had been able to dominantly resist the influence of mental techniques back then.

The reason he'd forgotten about it here was that he thought he needed to actively resist the mental technique for it to affect the procedure. However, it turned out that he was wrong, his passive mental defenses alone were enough to hinder the Martial Apprentice, to the point that a Martial Squire had to intervene for the hypnosis to still be effective on him.

"My bad," Rui added apologetically.

"It's not your fault." She waved her hand dismissively.

"Your condition is remarkably well." Doctor Herin added. "We can begin the next session immediately if you so wish."

Rui nodded in response. "Please do."

Preparations were made and Rui closed his eyes as the hallucinogens entered his system, affecting him.

When he opened his eyes, he had returned to the white world that seemed to expand infinitely.

('Woah.') He got up with a jump. He glanced at his thin arms, unsurprised. This time, he was hallucinating a lightweight body. The abrupt shift from heavyweight to lightweight had caused him to use too much force.

He hopped on his feet lightly, amazed at how nimble he was.

Rui appeared at

and agility he could scarcely fathom, crossing the distance between

POW POW POW!

had launched a flurry of strikes at fake Rui with blinding speed and impeccable fluidity. Yet, fake Rui didn't even bother blocking

Convergence, Flame Breathing, and Reverberating Lance, they were unable to overwhelm fake Rui's Inner Divergence, Elastic Shift, Acute Edge, and Adamant Reforging. They weren't even able to come close. Fake Rui's defensive prowess was extremely high, not only because he had four potent techniques defending him at any time, but because three of the techniques were techniques whose effectivity

to apply these techniques with far greater timing and placement than almost any Martial Apprentice he knew, and fake Rui had inherited

of ever

He still had solutions against fake Rui if he

WHOOSH

a hook with remarkable ease. The predictive model he had made in his previous mental fight was still effective,

PEW!

Stinger flew swifter than it ever had before, whistling as

retreated, covering his wound. Rui immediately pursued him, not willing to give him any respite. He launched a Flowing Canon amplified with many techniques at fake Rui. Although ordinary blows could not even faze fake Rui, the same could not be

BAM!

forced to let go of his wound. The bleeding immediately resumed, just as Rui had aimed for. He launched an avalanche of

He was a ghost.

combined with the VOID algorithm allowed Rui to express a degree of speed, agility, and maneuvering that far surpassed anything

launched many an attack, yet they all mostly bounced off fake Rui's powerful defensive prowess. Only the

inflict any significant damage through the Stinger?') Rui cursed. Although his speed and maneuvering allowed him to