The Martial Unity

"Tsk tsk, you're too stiff, you've got to immerse yourself into the illusion, young man," Master Zeamer tutted. "In the case of self-hypnosis, there is no external force misdirecting your attention."

Rui exhaled, heaving a sigh as he tried to submerge himself inside the image that he had created for himself. In this case, he was trying to trick his subconsciousness into causing its perception of time to slow down.

This was a phenomenon known as tachypsychia.

Unlike the images that he generated for a lot of his other techniques, he didn't have a lot of memories to rely on to create this image, thus he had to rely on pure imagination. That was the reason why he was in trouble with the fourth hypnosis technique project which was an upgrade to the Godspeed technique.

This was a direction of upgrade that was entirely different from the direction that Kane had gone down, which used electrical stimulation to speed up his reflexes significantly.

Their means of upgrading the Godspeed technique was different, but it reflected their strengths and affinities. Kane had stuck to amplifying his reflexes and reactions exclusively to a high enough degree while Rui had chosen to slow down his consciousness' perception of time using hypnosis.

"Here, let me help you out with building the image," Master Zeamer remarked as he activated a misdirection technique.

Rui glanced to his right as he felt an enormous presence that drew his attention. Of course, there was nothing there when he looked. It was a simple misdirection technique.

he wasn't using his Martial Heart at all, and a very small portion of his Martial Mind, Rui

time had already begun to slow down to a crawl. The world around him moved in

keeping up with even

breath, having activated Godspeed. Instantly he felt his body lightening with a surge of power. He moved around with the technique, this time, however, he didn't need

moved his fingers and arms around. 'I have no issue controlling

technique was already a remarkably powerful technique even without this upgrade, it would be even more capable now that he had

would be able to use the technique with a lot fewer risks if he could

sensation.' Rui closed his eyes as he added did his best to record this memory as well as he could. He also made sure to record the change in his perception

long later until

as he returned to meditation, accessing the memory of the

to several differences caused by the

by embodying an image. Thus the quality and speed at which one could not only generate a powerful image but also embody it was

why although it was difficult, he was sure that he would be able to

he was definitely having the least amount of ease with the self-hypnosis technique and

technique, he wanted to make sure that he didn't just inflict pain, but he inflicted