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.

world inside his mind shook. A strange force struck it, causing

Yet, it wasn't done.

horror as his memories began crumbling bit by bit. Breaking down to bits as they

of destruction spread through his mind world, destroying everything in sight. He watched helplessly as the

his Mind Palace break down in the distance. It held strong initially, resisting the destruction. The Mind Palace was

in the face of evolution breakthrough, it eventually crumbled

Everything broke down.

much had broken

by confusion as his memories

knew nothing anymore. Nothing of who he was, where and when he was, or why and how he

around. ('Everything... is

had rippled through

the distance. Something that was resisting destruction. It held strong. Waves of destruction crashed into it over

('What... is that?')

It was a path.

a path

the depths of his perception. A path that elevated towards the heavens above growing in height

was a path that no one else

a calamitous path that wound through all kinds

beasts of various

Earthquakes

Volcanoes.

Tsunamis.

Meteorites.

a terrifying

as terrifying as it was, it was

It inspired fear.

it also inspired

out to him. Lulling him. Whispering to

path he

of destruction crashed harmlessly against the path, unable to put so much as a dent in

it was the sole reason that he, his consciousness, had not been