The Martial Unity

It was only after he had become a Martial Squire that he understood how nerfed Squire Caella Freelia was against him in their fight. Although they hadn't fought her the very moment after she became a Martial Squire, it was still soon enough after her breakthrough when she was still out of sync to be able to express all of the power of her new body.

Just as he tried to take another step, Squire Fernin stopped him.

"Relax, no need to move right now." He told Rui. "It's best that all of this be done once we're in a controlled environment. For now, you will be taken to the Squire habilitation facility in a wheelchair."

They gestured to one in the room, having brought it over.

Rui sighed. He was not too fond of wheelchairs; they reminded him of the worst part of his life when his health deteriorated to the point that he was unable to move around on his own. It was one of the worst parts of his life not only due to his health but also due to the continuous failures he suffered in trying to make the VOID algorithm viable.

Still, he obliged as they strolled him to the Squire habilitation facility, which was connected to the breakthrough facility, side by side for convenience.

Once they arrived at the facility, they immediately entered a particular section of the facility.

"What's this place for?" Rui asked as he looked around. It appeared to be a storage facility for a strange kind of body suit, of sorts.

stage that you will be undergoing." Squire Fernin told Rui. "These

as he immediately comprehended the reasoning for

be wearing this suit for the entirety of your habilitation phase in this facility. We will progressively lessen the resistance the suit offers to your movements, roughly one-percent a day.

to normal humans around him as a Martial Apprentice because

muscles was thanks to efficiency. It had taken Rui a while to piece this together since the science in this world had not developed why having superhuman brains enabled superhuman physical power. Of course, the principles and mechanics of each technique were well-known. But the precise neurological reason as to why exactly superhuman brains enabled Martial Apprentices to use

Rui, as far as he knew, thanks to his strong scientific

was simple;

hundreds of joules of energy with every strike. Technically, this was enough energy to crack and break rocks

the world record for the most powerful punch ever thrown; Francis Zavier Ngannou, could possibly crack and

the many mechanical inefficiencies and structural inadequacies of the human body, only a small portion of that great energy

was capable of cracking and breaking rocks with a strike. Very few animals were capable of such a feat, despite generating far more than the

inefficiency in movements, and inadequacies in

cognition, and along with it, the potential to be superhumanly efficient with their

such as Flame Breathing, Outer Convergence, and Flowing Canon allowed Martial Apprentices to be extremely efficient with the energy that their body generated, maximizing

was a

hurt normal humans unless he used Apprentice-level techniques. There was never