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.

maneuvering part rather than the misdirection part, Rui wasn't able to reach Kane's level. Kane had an affinity for

that rigorously made use of the mind. Thus had he developed his own technique that relied more on the mind than a technique that relied more on maneuvering, it would have been more attuned to his strengths, allowing him to reach a much higher level of stealth than

and need for individuality back then. But he was aware of its importance now, and he didn't intend to make the same mistake. Rui fully believed that

of the matter is that it is impossible for the human mind to process all of the influx of information that comes in. It decides to choose and pick what information to focus

looking at Rui. "In other words, consciousness is simply the brain processing the information it has decided

far more progress in mapping out the brain and its relationship with consciousness. Consciousness was not discrete, nor was the

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

"Misdirection exploits the vulnerabilities in that subconscious system. By engaging in physical, verbal, and non-verbal

that evolved to protect us from threats by prioritizing elements that seemed

could impact the human negatively, thus insignificant events naturally fell back to

is why part of misdirection involves minimizing your perceived significance." She said. "Concealing your power completely is vital, and the

your presence is only

would we know exactly what physical movements, cues, and micro-actions to execute to precisely misdirect the human mind when we

answer. "The goal isn't to understand the human mind, but merely to know how to trick it. One