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.

were highly resistant to impacts, he may as well have no offensive capabilities at all. He didn't always have this problem, when he was a Martial Apprentice he had

was a Martial Apprentice, he

I need to fix.') Rui

to possess a wide array of tools in order to counter a wide

primary avenues that my Martial

increase his lethality. This was especially needed against defensive opponents with a tendency to be able to resist ordinary

way to increase my lethality

a similar issue, his solution back then was to obtain a piercing attack that allowed him to inflict flesh wounds on

would have been satisfied with remastering the technique as a Martial Squire, but that

I'd like. Furthermore, it

it required a tremendous amount of momentum to do so.

limitations and restrictions on the number of scenarios he

is a bit obsolete in

hit a blood vessel, but the same could not

with extreme piercing-oriented techniques, thus I'd rather avoid going more