The Martial Unity

Rui had to think about what Kane had just told him.

"Increase speed… by increasing power but also reducing body mass by exhaling matter that can be discarded for the moment? What in the world…?" He murmured with a shocked expression.

It was an absurd proposition, frankly. It offended his sensibilities, even.

How could one shed so much weight with a single technique? Rui knew that he had to be shedding a solid proportion of the weight of the body.

Rui's eyes widened. "Is that why you looked so starved every time you finished using the ability? You were basically incapacitated every time you used the technique."

"It's not an easy technique to use," Kane sighed. "As you have surmised, there are great drawbacks to using it. Just barely obtaining the power of a higher Realm, even if just for the briefest of moments, requires one to pay a great price."

Rui was not surprised.

As a Martial Apprentice, Kane could break the sound barrier and move as fast as a Martial Squire, and every time he used that move, he was completely incapacitated by exhaustion.

using the power of

was hoping to integrate into Project Forestep was quite useful and required him to consider the prospects

to achieve the speed of a higher Realm for the

speed is far too slow to be able to use it flexibly. That's why I can only go in straight lines, and that's why I

That made sense.

despite being far slower. This was probably because Kane was unable to react to her strike Because of how

shook his head. "I do not want speed beyond

certain degree, you kind of are, you do realize that, yes?" Kane tilted his head, looking at Rui oddly. "After all, your raw neurological reaction speed is above average for a Martial Squire as old as you at most. And it normally ought to be average, but it's

to master the technique despite his lacking reaction speed was because he had long decided to rely on predictions in addition to

technique, it doesn't suit my technique, and I cannot master

"I'm not even sure how to teach you that when I don't know if I can do that myself. I've only learned the Godspeed technique, and the only alterations I've ever done

mentions of Kane merging two grade-ten techniques into one were almost significant enough to draw his attention away from

can leave that part to me, I'll begin the training for the conventional Godspeed training, and in my inability to master it, I will strive to discover alternatives. Lower intensity for more grounded, but more controllable speeds," Rui told him

to compensate

couldn't wait to realize this ambition and obtain a tool to be able