The Martial Unity

The reason he was particularly fixated on reducing the combat speed gap between him and his opponent was that he did not have faith in his passive defensive capabilities. If the speed gap between them was high, then that meant he would not be able to evade attacks, which naturally meant he would be forced to endure the attacks with his body.

Given that the attacks were naturally fast enough to bypass his ordinary reaction time, he did not possess the ability to defend against them with active defensive techniques. Active defensive techniques like Inner Divergence and Flux Earther require being able to intercept attacks to some degree, which he could not do if he couldn't react to the attacks due to them being too fast for him.

This meant that if he could not react to the attack then he could only rely on passive defensive techniques such as his Adamant Reforging where his body was conditioned to be tougher generally against all forms of damage.

However, Rui knew for a fact that a single Squire-level technique was not going to save his life against the power that the Root had exhibited. Which meant that he could not tank the attack unless one of his techniques was a passive defensive technique.

"Mmmm…" Rui's expression turned uneasy at the thought of that.

Frankly, he wasn't able to come up with much of any idea at all for a passive defensive technique. Unfortunately, the field of passive defensive techniques was a highly narrow field in so far as the principles and mechanics of the techniques went.

All of the techniques revolved around conditioning. Conditioning was the one and only principle that mattered as far as this particular field went.

Rui had accrued rich scientific background across his long life, but he wasn't sure whether he was able to come up with a brand new paradigm for passive defensive techniques at the moment. It was not easy, and certainly much more demanding as far as creativity went.

would rather focus on techniques that he was more

is,') Rui decided. ('That will be the first

made up his mind about the first project, he felt more clarity

a way to

had existing means to hurt the Root, perhaps even critically, although definitely

than one project at the moment. Not only did he need to

two took time, leaving him not much room for any other

too many concrete plans as far as how to deal with the Root, the technique to mitigate the Root's speed was the most basic condition, regardless of what tactic or strategy he chose to employ, he would needed to be able to handle that speed. He couldn't

he was developing was merely him fulfilling one of the requirements to not dying, let alone it being the key to actually

put into perspective how difficult the task

put the strategizing asides after I have gained more information, for now, the information I have is good enough to justify focusing on this development project,') Rui closed his eyes as he began

he was far from able to identify which ones were

this technique is that it needs to be able to effectively boost my reaction

the Roots had demonstrated without both. If his movement speed was too lacking, then he would not be able to actually move out of the way of an attack even if he could react

needed something that effectively