The Martial Unity

Rui soon fell into a trance-like state as his subconscious mind absorbed his normal state as 'normal'.

Powerful gears began turning deep in his mind as the mental imprint technique by Senior Cayna took effect with full force. Both the trigger and triggered were in place, and the establishment of a causal connection between them in this new state was rapidly being formed.

Rui on the other hand became self-absorbed in his own body. The new state of his body had completely drawn his attention.

He could see what was happening to his own body. The outcome was shocking and terrifying, yet also highly exciting and promising.

His muscles grew larger step by step. This alone was one hell of a sight to witness. Every muscle group grew rounder and rounder as a result of the virus going haywire inside his own body. He could practically feel the virus consuming the myostatin reserves in his body while triggering rapid muscle growth.

He hadn't experienced pain like this since the Squire evolution breakthrough procedure. Frankly, he was shocked by the difference in his body. Out of all the Metabody techniques that he had created thus far, this one had surprised him the most. He had not expected it to be so jarring.

One moment he went from a body that was just muscular enough to have decent power, but also light enough to not be slow.

However, all of that went out of the window as he began resembling a mini-Hulk. He felt physical power that was unlike anything he had ever experienced in his life.

life. He felt as though someone had strapped every muscle in his body with incredibly heavy boulders, forcing him to slug them around

felt his stamina slipping away like someone had poked a hole in the bottom of a bottle of water. If not for the fact that the autophagy of Hungry Pain supplied the body with vastly greater energy reserves compared to

new state with a heavy mind. He felt as though he wouldn't like the Hypertrophic Surge technique

could not be

the cost of the rest of his body told him that he was capable of unleashing power that was unlike anything that he was previously capable of

stamina. Just like the other Metabody techniques, it sacrificed the other attributes of his physicality in order to get a

inwardly as he felt the onset of a fever

temperature rose dramatically as his body began fighting back against the viral infection in a way that is

breathing pattern that he had set as the trigger. In his current hypnotized state, he needed to make sure he didn't stray off-beat even a single time to make

focused as much of his attention on ensuring that at the very least, the mental imprinting technique was not

an increasingly stressed mind that did its best to deal with the failing mental

cannot allow myself to go through this every time I

mildly delirious and had a burning fever every time he had to use Hypertrophic Surge, then there were big problems at hand. One of the things that he needed to was deal with the fact that there were consequences to allowing