Rui gritted his teeth lightly as pain flowed through his veins, simultaneously, several syringes piercing into his limbs, injecting another liquid seemingly, having a cooling effect on the pain sensation, lessening it as time passed.

Soon, it was entirely gone, causing Rui to heave a sigh of relief.

"Squire Quarrier, the procedure has been completed, we will be unshackling you. However, the chamber will remain closed for a while as per protocols. As long as you can demonstrate that you have sufficiently high control over your new state, you will be released."

"Understood," Rui replied.

CLACK

All of the mechanical shackles opened.

('Fifteen percent less effort than usual,') Rui noted.

He exhaled before sitting upright slowly.

"Woah," Rui muttered.

He felt much lighter than before, though nothing too debilitatingly different.

After all, this was an overall fifteen percent boost, not a fifteen percent boost in every single physical parameter identically. The difference was manageable.

Rui turned slowly, as his feet touched the ground. He exhaled before getting up on his feet with as little effort as possible.

('This isn't that bad,') Rui realized as he landed on his feet just fine.

STEP

He carefully took a step forward.

VRMMMM

disappeared into an opening in the ground that promptly closed to serve as ordinary flooring, giving

to allow him to test elementary

STEP

another

STEP

STEP

STEP

"Oh this is easy."

that he wasn't nearly as comfortable with his body as he normally was, but his motor controls were largely retained because the effort he put in wasn't too different from what he needed to, and what he normally put in. He was stronger,

haven't made a single imperfect movement thus far is a very good sign of control. Still, you will

the treatment

VRMMM

opened in the wall on the other side of the

Rui shrugged, jumping down.

THUD

the exterior of the Martial

say a word to Rui

felt amused. He had basically taken something of a secret route out of the Martial Union complex. He walked over to the closest gate carefully before

couldn't

"Woah."

rose into the air as he pedaled against the atmosphere. Sky-walking required skill to leverage the power of the Martial body to apply Newton's third law of motion to generate a constant but

how far he was from his normal degree of comfort,

all," he muttered as he increasingly regained all of the finesse

WHOOSH

to nail a somersault

and there, but not bad

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