The Martial Unity

It was a windy day.

Rui squinted from atop a tall hill as he stared at a distant small tree that was no more than a collection of dots in even his superhuman vision. He couldn't make out too many details of it due to the distance between him and the tree.

He closed his eyes, relying instead on his two long-range sensory techniques, Tempestuous Feel and Seismic Mapping. He overlapped both images together, forming one image with remarkable detail and clarity despite the distance between them.

He had been training hard to gauge distance accurately through Tempestuous Feel and Seismic Mapping. This had taken him a while as he tried various methods of obtaining an objective evaluation of distance. He tried using his body in his own senses as a measuring tape, he tried comparing it to the max range of his sensory techniques, among other things. The problem was none of these were truly objective since his height certainly wasn't constant, and the maximum range of his sensory techniques also wasn't necessarily constant.

Instead, he carried a small rigid ruler on his person at all times. This allowed Rui to gain an objective measure of the distances of things that he senses by referring to his ruler and scaling the actual distance from that. It was not convenient, but he was willing to tolerate it. As a Martial Squire with a superhuman physique, the weight of a single ruler was beyond negligible and didn't hamper him in any way at all.

"Five hundred and eight point two meters, forty-three point one degrees of inclination below principle axis," Rui noted before plugging the data into the latest iteration of the first phase of the ODA System. He quickly computed the outputs, gathering the relevant launch data that told him how to launch his Sonic Bullets for a perfectly accurate aim.

However, this didn't take into account atmospheric conditions. That was what the second phase was for. He closed his eyes once more, diving deep into the Tempestuous Feel technique. He felt the air currents, the pressure shifts, the temperature, and other environmental parameters. He inhaled and exhaled deeply, sharpening his focus, gathering his mind, and refining his concentration.

Had a human been there, they may have already fainted from the tremendous amount of pressure that he was generating.

the sensory readings of the Tempestuous Feel technique before throwing them into the second phase of the ODA system, processing them as quickly as possible. Unlike with the first phase, he was on a restrictive time limit. If he was even a moment too late,

"Tsk! Too late, I'm

need to begin with the first phase, which didn't have a relevancy lifespan, not a short one anyway. He immediately began with the second phase once again, furiously completing the

positioned himself appropriately before lightly opening his

THWOOM

of his mouth, traveling forward with a certain inclination down. Less than two

POW!

in the middle, as several baseball-ball-sized holes and a deep hole in the ground

A perfect shot.

only took more than half a year for the very first successful

he couldn't stop a wide grin from appearing on his face. It couldn't be helped, the sheer satisfaction and pure joy that came with succeeding with a project after nearly seven months of work was

new chapter in his Martial Path, a new milestone. This was his first truly original Martial Art technique as a Martial Artist. While it was true that there were other instances of individuality

I still need to reach a point where I succeed one hundred percent of the time, only then is this project an absolute and true success in every sense of

over the joy of success, he was fully cognizant of just how incredible the

conditions and he launched a sound bullet that