The Martial Unity

It came sooner than he had expected. Yet, the transition took its time.

The pain disappeared.

Rui gasped in relief. He had almost forgotten what it was like to not feel pain. Pain had been his only reality for extensive periods of time, more time than he knew. He clenched his fist as raw power coursed through his muscles. He felt invincible.

Yet, he grimaced.

('My brain... My mind... This body is too much for them as they are right now.') He winced as flashes of pain coursed through his head.

This pain was not from the evolution procedure, it was pain from his brain straining.

The human brain had limits to the amount of information it could receive an influx of from the senses. Normally, the human body did not exceed the limit, thus the brain was never strained. However, due to the evolved nervous system and the evolved sensory organs, the influx of information that his brain was receiving had risen tremendously, beyond its ordinary limits.

That was what was causing his momentary pain.

This was the reason that it was impossible for normal humans to simply avoid brain evolution. It was not possible to evolve the rest of the body without evolving the brain. The brain would quickly be overwhelmed.

In fact, Rui was certain that had he not been a Martial Apprentice or reincarnated man, his brain would have already begun suffering seizures and strokes due to the overwhelming influx of information.

Just as he tried exploring the new sensations of his new body. The world disappeared once more.

He could feel nothing.

All that was there was an infinite void.

Soon, even that void was swept away as he reached a familiar place.

('These are my memories...') He looked around as strange visions of memories of two lifetimes flashed before his eyes. He recalled going through something similar in the implantation process of the Mindmirror Symbiote.

It was peaceful and blissful, especially in comparison to what he had gone through prior.

Just as he was beginning to forget that this part of the procedure was supposed to be the hardest, he was reminded of it.

his mind shook. A strange force struck

Yet, it wasn't done.

bit by bit. Breaking down

world, destroying everything in sight. He watched helplessly as the countless memories and experiences he had forged across two lifetimes began crumbling

in the distance. It held strong initially, resisting the destruction. The Mind Palace was a technique that had been enhanced

of evolution

Everything broke down.

had

by confusion as his memories were

nothing anymore. Nothing of who he was,

around. ('Everything...

through the entirety

his eyes caught something in the distance. Something that was resisting destruction. It held strong. Waves of destruction crashed into it over and

('What... is that?')

It was a path.

a path he was standing

far beyond the depths of his perception. A path that elevated towards the heavens above growing

path that

a calamitous path that wound through all kinds of disasters

of various shapes

Earthquakes

Volcanoes.

Tsunamis.

Meteorites.

a

as terrifying as it was, it

It inspired fear.

it also inspired

called out to him. Lulling him. Whispering

path he wanted

against the path, unable

reason that he, his consciousness,