The Martial Unity

He planned to see how viable grounding the kinetic energy that he absorbed from his opponent's attack to get rid of it, the same way one did electricity, was. However, his initial failure wasn't an indication that the option was not viable. He just messed up the execution of the plan.

"Again."

Once again, she threw a solid jab at him. This time, he managed to absorb and channel more of it downwards than before.

SKRRRRR...

He skidded heavily, and deeply into the ground. By the time he stopped, he was a hundred meters away and waist-deep into the ground.

"That was better." Rui's eyes glinted with interest. "However, there might a problem I hadn't foreseen."

When he tried to direct his kinetic energy downwards, he was essentially trying to make himself move downwards instead of flying away like he normally did. He hoped that by directing the inherited momentum and kinetic energy down, he could dispel it into the land without any issue.

However, he now realizes that there were likely issues with that plan as well. When he directed his inherited momentum and kinetic energy downwards, it meant that his body was moving fast down, which meant that he was essentially crashing into the ground.

('That's why my body dug in so deeply.') Rui frowned as he looked at how below the surface he had dug into as he skidded across the ground.

Furthermore, this was just with partial success, if he did succeed in diverting all of his momentum down, how deep would he go?

('Shit.') Rui felt a pang of anxiety. ('This issue isn't light, it might make the project unviable if I don't find a solution.')

most of the rest of the session trying to divert one hundred percent of the

gazed down the

than a hundred meters. Yet Rui easily sky-walked out of it without

sighed. "Let's

that you're trying to achieve

straightforwardly. They had grown more familiar with

trying to efficiently pass on my momentum to my surroundings without getting hurt."

confused

like when you strike, say, a rock,"

She nodded.

the ground because I'm effectively striking it with my

on to the ground?" She wondered. "If there's no difference between you striking the ground with a body or a fist, then

"I want to strike without causing surface damage

froze as his eyes

causing

a

Reverberating Lance to dispel all the energy to the ground?') Rui grew excited. ('This way I can permeate

the impact of a collision deeper into the target, past the surface. This principle was the same

issue was that he was causing too much damage to the ground, the surface of the land when he tried to impact against

he used the Reverberating Lance technique to permeate the impact beyond the surface? If the energy was

the outside, he could pass on the inherited kinetic energy of Project Bounce deeper into the land without necessarily digging through the surface