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.

misdirection part, Rui wasn't able to

a technique that relied more on maneuvering, it

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

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. It decides

"In other words, consciousness is simply the brain processing the information it has decided to keep

reality, the truth was more nuanced. Although Rui was far from an expert on neurology, the field of science had made far more progress in mapping out the brain and its relationship with consciousness. Consciousness was not discrete, nor was the processing of information so

overall point was on track, so Rui didn't bother trying

that decides 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

information sorting system that evolved to protect us from threats by prioritizing

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

your power completely is vital, and the good part is that you have already achieved that with your Mind Mask technique.

your presence is only a prerequisite for

exactly what physical movements, cues, and micro-actions to execute to precisely misdirect

but merely to know how