The Martial Unity

Although Rui wished he could have skipped all the hallucinations based around body types he didn't care about because he knew they weren't going to be the ones that would be most compatible with his Martial Art, he did gain some unique experience that he would probably never gain again.

The procedure was extended for days as he was made to experience a variety of body types. He was supposed to experience the body suited to each of the fields he had mastered a technique for. This included power, speed, defense, grappling, and supplementation, among other fields. Thankfully, he didn't have to experience Martial bodies centered around fields he had never even touched.

He never lost against the hallucinated version of himself. This was a surprising outcome to Squire Luna, it was the norm that the hallucinated mirror version of the subject won against the subject due to a lack of familiarity and comfort with one's new body in the hallucination.

Rui, of course, had already figured out the reason. Because the hallucination lacked the core of his Martial Art. Without it, it could express only a portion of his true power. Meanwhile, even if he had a new body, he could still use the VOID algorithm to a high degree. The disadvantage he had from having a drastically different body type was not enough to dampen the advantage the VOID algorithm provided him. Furthermore, he could use the same predictive model each time, which meant he didn't need to adapt or evolve to his hallucinated clone all over again each time.

The predictive model only grew increasingly accurate and precise the more they fought.

The biggest problem was that he always lacked the body that was able to execute all of the adapted counters provided by the adaptive evolution model. He usually made do with his own improvised counters that while perhaps not the best in his current body, was still good enough.

Soon time passed and eventually, they had finally reached the all-rounder-oriented Martial body.

"This is the final body type on our checklist." Squire Luna informed him. "This Martial body is oriented around placing an equal amount of weight on power, speed, defense, and endurance. With a muscle mass to body mass ratio that perfectly caters to all primary fields equally as well as a mildly augmented healing capability."

in glee. "An increased

endurance often have a heavy focus on regeneration,

them?" Rui asked, intrigued. "Why would the increased healing capability come at the cost of power

and nutrients. This reduces

Rui nodded. "That does make sense. After all, there are constraints to how much stamina can be augmented by the evolution

important to the Martial Art in question. Endurance-oriented Martial Artists usually improve stamina and healing capability along with toughness

considerations flew through his mind. He had come across a potential solution to bypass or at least mitigate the stamina solution. But he

subjected to hallucinogens once more as he entered a trance-like state. Squire Luna quickly began executing the hypnosis technique, causing him to return to the white

his original body. Yet it still felt mildly different from anything he

of combat, it was impossible to make it perfectly so. If he had had the technology of his previous world, reaching something close to perfectly all-rounding was perhaps not impossible, but in this world with the lack of the technology he was familiar

Rui immediately dashed towards Rui after

BAM!

evaded a swinging blow from fake Rui as landed his own blow in the latter's gut. Rui immediately followed up

POW POW POW!

his opponent,