The Martial Unity

This was the first time he had come across a Martial Path that seemed to have as much depth as his own, it was astonishing.

Every Martial Squire he fought, he fought on their own turf. It wasn't too long after the initial clash that he would be replicating their stance, their form, their techniques, and eventually their entire Martial Art!

It was unfortunate that Rui could not focus on the man, after all, he had a war to participate in himself. He could only catch glances at the man, and that was why he only had a few details about how the man fought. However, based on the few glances here and there, Rui saw his fighting style continued to become closer and closer to that of his opponent. And sure enough, he went on to surpass him.

Rui didn't quite understand how the mechanics worked due to now being able to observe him in detail.

Regardless, whatever he was doing, worked.

Martial Squires fell left and right, so much so that he singlehandedly was causing the attacking army to incur unsustainable losses.

Rui had to admire his stamina as well, for being able to maintain such a potent Martial Art for that long. One thing that Rui was quite curious about was the mechanics of how he not only copied a Martial Art but also somehow made it stronger.

However, in order to be able to mimic any Martial Art, there were several conditions that he needed to be able to fulfill.

('For one, he needs to have the building blocks to be able to recreate Martial Art of any kind,')

This made sense. A Martial Art was made up of techniques, training, and principles; systems of movements, and processes that embody the Martial Path of the Martial Artist. He could not replicate the Martial Path without them.

of the same fundamental building blocks. Tokugawa even went as far as to

means he must have mastered an enormous number of techniques in all

that it was probably impossible for the man to mimic all fields. Martial Paths related to poison, weapons, and

to copy most

all these techniques

spent their entire life mastering all these techniques did not mean

the depth of a Martial Art to an extreme

come across

gained the ability to acquire such insight into the depth of

the Mind Palace technique to be able to store and organize

but he definitely looks at the patterns of his opponent and

but used that information very differently. Rui adapted to patterns, and from what he could see, Ieyasu improved them, getting rid of flaws, weaknesses, and

he showed

small extent like he did when training Max and Mana. This was why he was confident that Ieyasu did much more than that. He wondered how Ieyasu went about gathering information on his opponents, and whether it was the exact same way that Rui

came up in