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.

of the task made it amply clear why the population of Martial Artists

easy, everybody would do

Rui suspected that it was probably 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 thin air without borrowing from any existing foundation. That was an extremely rare occurrence and

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

would it mean for a long-range attack to be synergetic with me and my Martial Art?') Rui asked himself. If he wanted to

when paired with my strengths and one

this was still merely a very general statement, he needed to derive more specific conditions that the technique

placement are excellent thanks to the VOID algorithm, Primordial Instinct, and the Mindmirror brain. This what makes my Martial Art powerful and high-grade') Rui noted. ('That means a technique with a great amount of power in exchange for an

general statement, but it was something much more concrete to work on. He could take his time

long-range technique would have an extremely high requirement for

struck him the very instant

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

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

was aware that action movies were nothing short of fiction. However, whatever he knew

more extreme examples like an intercontinental ballistic missile. The sheer calculations that were performed by the launch and propulsion systems were so incredibly much