The Martial Unity

('Last time, against the Root, I was able to compensate for lacking reaction time against the Root with the VOID algorithm instead of trying to create a technique that improved my effective reaction and reflex time,') Rui mused. ('Maybe I should attempt the latter this time.')

The issue was that this too was an extremely ambitious project as well. Improving reaction time was one of the holy grails of Lightning Sect. Even for him, this was not something that could be done immediately.

('If push comes to shove, I'll create techniques that allow me to sense on a quantum level and techniques that improve my reaction time somehow,') He sighed. ('But is that really the only two paths forward? Is there no other simpler and easier solution that would allow me to overcome this obstacle easily?')

He reviewed everything he knew about lightning. An immense amount of charge is built up in a cloud with the excess electrons accumulating at the bottom of the cloud while positive charges migrate away to the upper portion of the cloud.

This causes a positive charge to build up on the surface of the valley. Streams of electrons jump from the cloud reaching downwards, this negative streak was known as the step ladder. Simultaneously, streams of positive charges would emerge from the land moving upwards towards the sky, known as streamers.

Because streamers and step ladders were of opposite charges, they would be attracted to each other and meet midair, completing the circuit between the clouds and the land. An immense flow of current generating a lot of light and sound would occur from the cloud to the ground, that was the lightning bolt.

It was a phenomenon for which a lot of unseen precurring events preceded the lightning bolt.

need to predict the trajectory of the lightning bolt after it has begun. What if I

that he was being too close-minded in regard to the manner in which he could predict the lightning. He didn't need to predict its future trajectory based on

trajectory, but the timeframe he had to predict before it was too late to avoid the

that occur prior to it, then…') He realized that this was a viable strategy.

somehow use the streamer and the step ladder that occur before a lightning strike, then I will be able to gain crucial information on the lightning

that emerged from the land, constituted of positive charges, could allow Rui to detect the destination

preceding conditions of lightning well enough, then he would

the viability with which he could evade lightning

practical than developing a technique that greatly enhances my combat

to the grounded solution of analyzing the preceding phenomena of a lightning bolt to dodge it. That was why he was rather optimistic about his chances of

been too fixated prior on specifically trying to predict the lightning bolt in

prior successes, and assumed that that was the only way to do things. I couldn't be further wrong.') He shook his

ODA System, where he concretely predicted the future by analyzing the past. The ODA System was so successful, that it was easy for Rui to fall into a self-made trap where he limited

that's not right. Information is information. Knowledge is knowledge. No matter where