The Martial Unity

To Kane, the Void Forestep technique may have appeared to have been flawless, however, Rui knew that this was far from the truth. The truth was that this technique had several drawbacks and detriments.

For one, the only reason it worked so exceptionally well this time was that Rui had an extremely well-built predictive model of Kane, with excellent depth into both his active and passive patterns. This predictive model was built over the many years that Rui knew Kane. He had an immeasurable amount of exposure to Kane in all the time that he had known him.

It was unlikely that he would be able to replicate such an extremely well-developed predictive model for pretty much anyone else ever. Least of all the Root, to which he had the least amount of exposure.

That was why he did not take the performance that he had against Kane as the norm.

It was not.

It was quite likely that for any predictive model that he did end up building, he would not be able to replicate the level of prowess that he had just demonstrated against Kane.

('The biggest problem is that this can only be used after I form a predictive model,') Rui sighed. ('Until then, it's useless.')

That was also a rather severe restriction and limited the scope of the technique. That was a limitation that the original Godspeed technique did not suffer.

On top of that, this technique could not be used lightly.

Rui sighed as he glanced at his malnourished body, he felt as though he had lost precisely half his weight, which seemed like an absurd proposition.

('Martial bodies are denser than normal human bodies, that's why I can expel mass that isn't immediately substantial and still retain most of my complexion,') Rui glanced at his body, which looked the same as always.

technique left him weakened, he would need to consume a lot of nutritious food to regain all the expelled body mass back. Thus he could not use this with the expectation

for only when he

but they couldn't be helped. It was as though nature was balancing

Rui could use it freely without

via Godspeed was much slower than any actual Martial Senior, it was still the speed of a

to combat the attack, he had been able to accurately land

no Martial Squire ought

to any extent to persuade Rui

would be effective against

technique, they also possessed reaction, cognitive, and processing speed on par with it. They would be able to observe Rui in slow motion, almost like he was a

quasi-Senior level speed when one considered speed in a holistic

insane,') Rui knew that there probably were almost no

the Root. What he needed was more information. Although he probably would never be able to make a

a solid portion of the prowess that he

created a technique that, at least in preliminary tests, is satisfactory, but I haven't made as much

entire

inwardly. ('If what I'm looking for won't occur