The Martial Unity

Rui was determined to minimize energy waste, so he went all out on refining the image. He had already seen that his rate of progress far surpassed that of what was to be expected.

And not by a small amount either. When one combined his powerful mind with the continuously improving Mind Palace, one ended up with a rate of growth that was almost entirely unprecedented.

The speed at which he created and refined the video of Master Zeamer's was exponentially greater than anyone else could have. A month of progress was accomplished in a matter of days.

'I wouldn't have taken on four projects at once if not for the fact that I have a particularly high rate of progress with mental images,' Rui mused as he refined the image.

Within a week, he had already refined the image to a point where the returns on effort had diminished too much to be worth it.

"Fuuu..." He exhaled deeply. "This should be fine."

In his mind, an extremely sharp and refined two-dimensional GIF of a rotating hypnotic spiral drew his attention. Even he was impressed just by how attention-drawing it was. It reeled in any beholder with a nigh-irresistable force.

Furthermore, it was far less mentally taxing than the Greater Primordial Void was. Which was one of the primary goals when approaching the three Hypnomatrix projects.

'Now that those are out of the way, I should do some detailed training on how I approach each of the principles needed for each of the techniques.'

perceive everything to happen faster, including their own body, than they were capable of processing. Rui needed to learn

amount of body sabotage, some amount of pain induction, and some body-sabotage for defense as

the principles of each of the three techniques, so he didn't need the Hypnomaster's aid in this regard.

sheer experience, expertise, and mastery of hypnosis, he showed Rui the best training methodologies and principles that he had.

the first half of that, and now needed to master the second half which was entirely

would be lying if

was something that he had never expected to do in his entire

towards manipulating the subconsciousness after manipulating the mind is developing the right image

the offense-sabotage technique, he was quite content relying on breathing

his eyes.

into his previous life. A life of hampered breathing. He had been diagnosed with a rare form of asthma that could only be treated, not cured. On top of that, he was a particularly severe case, and he would need to be permanently

had decided he didn't want to lead such a life. He would rather suffer hampered breathing if

a life of gasping, wheezing, and strained breathing. He carried around three inhalers of different kinds at all times. There were many times, particularly during winter, when

the frailty and fragility that came with being an asthma. Those instances generated immense frustration, perhaps he would have gone down a darker

was something worth dedicating his

a particularly tiring period of his life with his condition. His lungs burned