The Martial Unity

Rui, however, didn't mind the war all that much. Whenever he wasn't fighting deployed, he simply trained.

Now that he had obtained three spec configurations for healing, stamina, and speed, he was looking forward to expanding that offense and defense as well.

These two were arguably the hardest of them all.

The reason for this was because both offense and defense were too broad. Offense included collision-based techniques like strikes, throws, and projectiles. That could further be divided into two exclusive categories blunt force and piercing. It also included other forms of inflicting damage such as heat, friction, mental techniques, sustained pressure-based techniques like holds and locks, blunt force brain trauma, etc.

It also included a wide variety of ranges from super-close-quarters forms of offense with grappling and wrestling offensive maneuvers to close-quarters striking, to long-range attacks. It included damage based on external elements such as poison, symbiotes, or weapons. There were also different media of damage such as one's own body, as well as the atmosphere.

There were many layers, and dimensions of depth to offense as a broad category or concept.

It was far from a monolithic concept, and far more of a loose label that simply referred to any and everything that could be done in combat to hurt one's opponent'

It was simply far too broad of a concept for him to develop a single Martial Body that universally catered to all of the forms of offense that existed at the moment. It was impossible because the Martial Body needed to cater to forms of damage that were either mutually exclusive or even principally opposed to each other, like heat and cold.

That was why forming a Martial Body that was principally catering to the offense as a whole was impossible.

('I'll need to narrow it down to my offense,')

he needed to cater only to the main forms of offense that

Striking.

Long-range air-based attacks.

Grappling offense.

amplify these by altering his body in some way, then he needed to either find three different mechanisms to amplify each of them separately or

are advantages to

different mechanisms for all three forms of offense, then he would probably end

increased the difficulty by at least a factor of three. Furthermore, it was highly suspect whether it would be

for sub-categories of offense is something I should save for future

the first iteration of Project Metabody, he had decided that it was best to stick with being simple and straightforward, rather than

mechanism to amplify my offense in general…') Rui

way in which he could amplify all offense. It wasn't so straightforward,

only thing that they have in common is inflicting

anything, it made it harder. It was true that those means of offense relied on the power output of his body, but it also meant that if he wanted to empower all of those forms of offense, he needed to increase his power

decrease in mass was perfectly balanced out by the increase in speed, so it amplified speed for the most part, as opposed to

to increase power? He had no idea