The Martial Unity

('Well, what else is my Martial Art lacking at the moment, as far as fundamentals go?') Rui wondered.

Well, that was an easy question to answer. This wasn't quite like the later days of his Apprentice times when he had so many Martial Art techniques that it was exceedingly difficult to find a technique that wasn't redundant.

Now he had returned back to stage one, in a way, where he once more needed to fill the gaps in his Martial Art like he already had once upon a time.

('The only difference is the difficulty of this task is exponentially more difficult than it was before.') Rui sighed, yet he couldn't suppress the mild grin on his face no matter how hard he tried.

His attention returned back to the matter at hand as he pondered through what his Martial Art needed and could use.

('Lack of range is definitely one thing to consider.') Rui nodded.

When he was a Martial Apprentice, he had mastered the Tempestual Ripple technique, which allowed him to launch attacks a good distance away by manipulating the air into a dense ball which he then launched with a strike.

('How on Earth am I going to create a long-range technique from scratch?') Rui sighed.

clear why the population of Martial Artists decreased across higher

easy, everybody would do it.') Rui

better to modify existing techniques to suit him and his Martial Art better. It wasn't an absolute necessity that every technique he ended up mastering in the Squire Realm was something entirely brand-new that was purely constructed out of

that less than one percent of techniques fell into that category. He didn't need to feel too self-conscious about borrowing from existing foundations as long as whatever he ended up creating satisfied the conditions he had already created for himself; synergetic, original, and unique, all to a certain

asked himself. If he wanted to make one that was synergetic with his Martial Art, he needed to understand what that

one that is most effective when paired with my

statement, he needed to

Martial Art powerful and high-grade') Rui noted. ('That means a technique with a great amount of power in exchange for an extremely high requirement for accurate and precise timing

something much more concrete to work on. He could take his time deriving more specific conditions until he

an extremely high requirement for accuracy and precision?') Rui

the very instant he finished parsing

('The super-dee-duper long-range type.')

truth to be found in his words. He thought back to every action movie that featured snipers back on Earth. Sniping from a large distance was always portrayed as an extremely difficult feat that required nearly superhuman levels of accuracy and precision as well as a lot of aid from instruments

movies were nothing short of fiction. However, whatever he knew about marksmanship and sniping, it was at least close to the truth.

much that they surpassed human cognition. Not even Rui dared to think that he could perform the necessary calculations in the necessary amount of time in order for