The Martial Unity

"I believe that you have the aptitude for wielding the power of misdirection effectively." She said. "Although you have also displayed an extremely unusual talent for tapping into the principles of reality with your technique."

She threw him a look of interest.

Rui knew that she was referring to Death's Sympathy. Considering it was a technique that relied on the knowledge he gained from his bachelor's and master's, it was a technique that would almost certainly never be born naturally given the sorely lacking theoretical framework into reality.

Even for a Martial Master like the Silent Shadow, a technique based on sympathetic resonance and constructive superposition was probably something well beyond what she could understand and replicate. He would probably need to hold her hand for more than a year the way he did when Senior Ceeran tried to learn Pathfinder.

"Regardless, let us go with misdirection." Rui's eyes lit up with interest.

This was not the first time that he would be learning a technique based on the principles of misdirection. He had mastered a lesser version of Kane's Void Step back when he was an Apprentice; the Shadow Step technique.

It was a good example of what happened when techniques were not attuned to the user. The Shadow Step technique was a technique that also relied on maneuvering to amplify basic misdirection.

Rui wasn't able to reach Kane's level.

had he developed his own technique that relied more on the mind than a technique that relied more on maneuvering,

aware of its importance now, and he didn't intend to make the same mistake. Rui

relies on the shortcomings of the fundamental nature of human consciousness." Master Reina began. "The human consciousness receives an influx of information from a variety of senses. The fact of the matter is that it is impossible for the human mind to process all of the influx of information that comes in.

other words, consciousness is simply the brain processing the information it

was far from an expert on neurology, the field of science had made far more

point was on track, so Rui didn't bother trying to interject with

what information to focus on and what not to." She continued. "Misdirection exploits the vulnerabilities in that subconscious system. By engaging in physical, verbal, and non-verbal cues, we can trick the prioritizing system into prioritizing something else and shifting its attention away from us, allowing us to escape the cognition of

nodded. "The same subconscious information sorting system that evolved to protect us from threats by prioritizing elements that seemed threatening and thus attention-drawing is now a weakness that

only significant events could impact the human negatively, thus insignificant events naturally

minimizing your perceived significance." She said. "Concealing your power completely is vital, and the good part is that

your presence is only a prerequisite for misdirection techniques." Rui

do we misdirect other people's minds and attention? How would we know exactly what physical movements, cues, and micro-actions to execute to precisely misdirect the human mind when we

understand the human mind, but merely to know how to trick it. One we can do that