The Martial Unity

Rui found himself meditating on a large rock in the forests near the Quarrier Orphanage, absorbed deep in thought. He had recently obtained clarity about his path forward in the Squire Realm and had even fleshed out some of the conditions that he would need to keep in mind when developing his Martial Art from this point forth.

All he had to do was take the first step concretely.

('What are my most immediate needs?') Rui asked himself.

Although developing the VOID algorithm to be able to counter all Martial Art in the world was certainly important, it was much more of a lifelong ambition than an immediate objective. He thought back to his battle against the Britannian Martial Squire, analyzing his shortcomings, weaknesses, and faults.

('My lack of ability to hurt him was a pain in the ass.') Rui sighed emphatically.

Rui had been able to react to, outmaneuver, predict, and counter his opponent just fine. The only reason the fight had extended for as long as it did was that he had trouble inflicting any meaningful damage on his opponent.

('My higher-end lethality is shit.') Rui sighed.

His offense was mostly centered around Outer Convergence, which allowed him to employ power from all muscle groups at any given point in time as well as Reverberating Lance, which employed vibrations to permeate the impact of his strike deeper into the body of his target allowing him to inflict damage in the more vulnerable parts of the human body.

at all. He didn't always have this problem, when he was a Martial Apprentice he had a versatile offense that allowed him to

a Martial Apprentice, he did not possess the same

I need to fix.') Rui

tools in order to counter

should note down all the primary avenues that my Martial

to be able

simplest way to increase my lethality is to obtain

the past, as a Martial Apprentice, he had faced a similar issue, his solution back then was to obtain a piercing attack that

he would have been satisfied with remastering the technique as a Martial Squire, but that no longer was

like. Furthermore, it has zero individuality since it

liked. While it was true that his toe had effectively become a bullet that he could puncture his opponent with, it was also true that it required a tremendous amount of momentum to do so. Every time he needed to use it, he needed to use all his offense-supplementary techniques, and strike as hard as he could with as

kinds of limitations and restrictions on the number of scenarios he

a bit obsolete in the

land critical wounds on his opponent if Rui aimed well or got lucky and hit a blood vessel,

piercing-oriented techniques, thus I'd rather avoid going more powerful and extreme techniques that I probably would not be able to master as much as I'd like.') Rui analyzed. ('Thus, the solution is not piercing, or at