The Martial Unity

Rui was ready to give his technique a new name.

('Though is it really a new technique if it's just a result of using three techniques simultaneously?') Rui wondered.

That was an interesting question. Rui did not think that it mattered in the grand scheme. Regardless of whether he considered it to be a separate technique or not, it was something that expanded his Martial Art that also individuality.

There was no point in speculating too much.

('Still, it feels nice commemorating it as a technique,') Rui shrugged. ('Even if it can barely be considered one.')

Rui knew that he wasn't missing much either way. Instead, he shifted his attention back to the Thundering Valley.

It was time for a test. He wanted to see how much more knowing the destination of the lightning would help him avoid them.

('There's a good chance I can use Forestep to a much higher degree, if not the entire way,') He grew enthusiastic at the thought.

He quickly got up, stretching as he warmed his body up. All that time spent meditating made him feel as though his body had gotten a little stiff. Not even Martial bodies were exempt from the requirement of activity to maintain their peak form.

He stretched every muscle in his body to the limit, groaning in comfort as he felt the blood flow to the various muscle groups increasing.

feet as he activated the Forestep breathing

He exhaled deeply, immediately feeling his body grow lighter as a surge

the three constituting the new sensory technique. Immediately as he walked in, he could identify the patterns that corresponded with the presence of streaks of charged particles reaching up

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was working with, to a certain

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that I think about it in hindsight,') Rui thought to himself as

was still predicting the lightning by analyzing patterns of preceding events. That was essentially how the predictive model of the VOID algorithm worked. He gathered data, noticed patterns, used those patterns to predict his opponent's moves, and then used

this is a natural phenomenon as opposed to a person,') Rui mused. ('The biases and patterns that normal people have are

a strange mood, even as

algorithm can help me understand the nature of not

STEP

Just the fact that

the VOID algorithm was originally something that he had created for

mean the same is true in Gaia, right?') Rui wondered to himself before his eyes widened with an idea.

felt he had come on the cusp of something important, a deep and sharp sense of pain overtook

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teeth, grimacing as he handled the mind-numbing pain coursing through his nerves. A big lightning bolt struck his entire

retreated back outside the valley, groaning in pain. "Note to self, store all epiphanies in the Mind Palace

It was as though the coursing lightning