The Martial Unity

"You think I'm not using my mental talent properly?" Rui frowned.

"It's a good technique for an assassin, but assassins in the first place do not seek to maximize the application of any given affinity to its full potential in all aspects. They only care bout killing. Thus they'd only apply things in order to aid covert killings. Mental techniques are capable of much much more than being a convenient tool for murder!"

"Right..." Rui considered.

"Going through all that effort to misdirect people so much only to then get them to ignore you is the most wasteful application of principles of mental techniques, but what more can you expect from assassins," He crinkled his nose. "Hypnosis, which is my chosen sub-specialty makes far greater use of the mind and misdirection."

"Hypnosis..."

"It is the art of manipulating the subconscious mind," He remarked. "In this case, anything that you have no control over consciously, normally speaking. Generally, speaking this includes memory manipulation, senses, and sabotage. Hypnosis isn't limited to Martial Artists. Normal humans can also hypnotize people. However, they are much more limited. For one, normal humans cannot hypnotize people against their will."

Rui nodded. Hypnosis was a proven phenomenon back on Earth, although it was not too very well understood. It was often used to aid with mental issues as a part of therapy.

"Not much can be said about the subconscious mind, but one thing about it is certain. It can be impacted, influenced, and even rewritten by external influences." The Master informed him. "There existed an extremely powerful barrier between consciousness and subconsciousness, which prevents the former from directly manipulating the latter. Furthermore, the conscious mind serves as a guard dog against external influences, preventing anything from impacting the subconscious mind. That is why normal humans cannot hypnotize their targets against their will."

Rui nodded. He was aware that Martial Artists were not nearly as helpless.

misdirection," The man explained. "We distract the guard dog with something. A toy or a treat. And while

he understood why the

to the treasure room, you run away from the prize to ensure that the guard dog never saw you. What a waste!" The man snorted. "Instead of running away, you should go to the control room and

the most combat-relevant applications? Manipulating memories sounds fun, but it sounds like it is much less combat-applicable than some of the

your alley then," The man speculated. "Those are the most easily combat applicable principles. However, rather than learning the principles and constructing basic techniques, it would be best to attune the technique to your Martial Art.

Mind was categorically separate from mental techniques, but he could

mental techniques would be in line with his Martial Art, since there surely were Martial Artists that were particularly weak towards mental techniques, allowing him to adapt to them

also relied on information a lot, so mental sensory techniques that supplied him with information were

was firmly on the side of quality rather than quantity, so he didn't want to engage in

is possible. Especially when mental techniques have such a bad framework. Can I get demonstrations of the several tentative categories of mental techniques and hypnosis to

the case, then he was more inclined to see which field was more useful, and which field was more

kind of mental technique he ought to venture towards. Powerful but difficult to attune to adaptive

was both powerful,

"Alright, I guess we'll have to go disturb

"Yes, I have lots of things that I would like you to demonstrate. That is why I want

expected of my pupil,

made