The Martial Unity

Rui bade him goodbye before sky-walking away. The blade made out of Tethered Bellhorn Steel was one of his solutions to the problem of the monsters that he hoped to handle with Project Monster Repellant.

He had commissioned a single-handed curved sword with a blade fashioned out of Tethered Bellhorn Steel. The reason for this kind of blade was rather simple, he would likely be putting himself in a situation where he would be facing multiple threats omnidirectionally, thus he needed a blade whose application was flexible and versatile and could be rapidly adjusted to fit his situation.

In this regard, slashing was a more desirable means of attacking than stabbing or thrusting. The former was much more flexible as it had a large number of directions and angles of attack, and was less committal allowing the swordsman to return back to a guarded stance swiftly and easily. Stabbing and thrusting were more lethal, yet also required more commitment from the swordsman.

The latter style of sword combat was unfit for the circumstances of the Shionel Dungeon. He could not focus on committing everything to a sure-shot way of killing a single opponent when his goal was to cope with the monsters in a situation where he would be facing many, not just one. Furthermore, he did not need to commit too much inflicting damage why thrusting thanks to the presence of the cooled Tethered Bellhorn Steel blade that would magnify the damage his attack inflicted on the monster tremendously.

Thus Rui decided to go for a basic slashing-oriented sword style. Furthermore, he wanted to minimize the commitment that he gave as far as his body went when wielding it, thus he decided to commission single-handed curved swords that were meant to be wielded by a single arm and were suited towards slashing rather than stabbing or thrusting.

He had even ordered a special scabbard laced on the inside with a rare esoteric that constantly had a standard temperature many degrees below the freezing point of water. Even when heated, it would seemingly violate the Zeroth law of thermodynamics and lose heat to its surroundings before reaching its standard temperature.

Thus he had a natural cooling system for the Tethered Bellhorn Steel blade, allowing him to ensure that it had a low temperature that was needed to obtain the reaction that he was hoping for.

the blade with a replica whose size, shape, and mass

master swordsmanship in a matter

no intention of mastering the in a matter of months, what he was subjecting himself to was basically the Martial Foundation Stage equivalent of swords. He needed

rest he could make up for to a great extent with the VOID algorithm which would allow him to predict monsters with remarkable accuracy and depth, while his elementary and basic adaptive-evolution model would allow him to appropriately deal with them. Even if the latter was primitive in comparison to the adaptive evolution model that he developed for unarmed humans, it still allowed

on Primordial Instinct which would help him

was that, for the first time, he would be creating a technique that wasn't actually a technique, not truly. Technically it was, but

that he particularly disliked it, it was just that

perform unarmed attacks anywhere nearly as well with a sword compared to without it. Punching and kicking became far more constrained when holding a sword since merely holding it

ever decided to pursue swordsmanship. The number of times two swordsmen ever got into a wrestling

It was because of this demand for exclusivity that he could

he was against the mastery of weapons in general, just not swordsmanship and similar weapons that demanded an exclusive commitment to them. He did not mind a smaller weapon that

such a weapon, nor had he come across a weapon