The Martial Unity

"Excuse me." Rui addressed one of the support staff members of the library.

"Yes? How may I help you?" She replied.

"I'm looking for the Mind Switch technique; a mental training technique," Rui told her. "I was hoping I could request for it to be procured."

"Of course." She nodded. "Please wait here a moment."

She took off as Rui took a seat on one of the benches in the library. Rui waited patiently as he scrutinized the library.

('It has more techniques than the Apprentice library of the Martial Academy did.') He noted as he looked at the endless shelves of techniques across the entire library. The reason for this wasn't too difficult to think about. The Martial Academy had lower quality Martial Apprentices than the real world, thus it wasn't hard to see that the Apprentice library was also a little smaller in so far as the sheer number of techniques it offered.

Rui suspected that the Martial Art techniques of the higher grades were a little scarcer in the Apprentice library of the Martial Academy than they were in the Apprentice library of the Martial Union.

Just as he pondered on the matter, his thoughts were interrupted.

technique you requested for." A support staff member told him, handing him

up, nodding as he accepted

to the registrar of the

and guidance needed to master the techniques

fees paid to the Martial Academy, however,

which didn't surprise him. The Martial Academy had managed the price of the techniques to ensure that the prices of techniques were just in the price range such that the students of the Martial Academy would have to work hard in order to earn the Martial credits needed to purchase the technique, but still not too expensive that each student would need to waste too much

didn't coddle its Martial Artists the way the martial Academy coddled its students, thus the Martial Art techniques of the Martial Union had been priced purely according to their actual value and the resources invested by the Martial Union into acquiring those techniques be it the large research and development project budgets that

the required training hours for an initial introduction to the

mastery of the technique. He carefully read the more detailed explanation in regards to the actual functioning of the technique, looking for any information that would confirm that his goal and hope for the technique were possible, but he didn't receive any

very far in so far as the technical explanation of the functioning of the technique. Rui was unable to derive anything that could confirm or deny

least, thanks to my high affinity to mental techniques as well as the low difficulty grade of the technique, I won't be wasting too much time trying

master the technique due to this very reason. This was part of the reason he had gone out of his way to train in the Mind Switch technique. There wasn't much to be lost beyond some time. If this were a grade-eight technique, Rui would not have been as enthusiastic

ease with which the technique could be mastered as well as his own affinity for it, he had weighed the potential benefits against the investment of time and energy and eventually

moved on to the training regime