The Martial Unity

While Kane broke into a cold sweat at the prospect of being a test subject in the R&D process of Rui's technique projects, Rui continued to flesh out the technique.

To read the subconscious mind, he would put his victim in a trance where the subconscious mind had greater primacy over the body, conveying greater amounts of information through non-verbal communication.

To put them in a trance, he would need to apply hypnosis, distracting his opponent's conscious mind and awareness to leave their subconscious mind exposed. And then, he had to implant the classic hypnotic suggestion of sleep. Of course, this would not cause them to actually sleep, but it would put them in a minor trance where their subconscious mind's influence and control were magnified.

This was normally impossible due to sensory stimuli keeping the conscious mind active, which, in turn, could be mitigated by using a domain to kill sensory stimuli, making it easier for the conscious mind to be dimmed in its primacy.

Thus, the technique would require a domain-hypnosis hybrid technique to put the mind into a trance, as well as an intent-pattern recognition system of thought to then create an intent-evaluation model allowing him to read the intent conveyed through non-verbal communication.

As such, the technique blueprint was divided into two parts: the trance-induction half and the intent-evaluation half.

The former required a domain-hypnosis technique. This was an extremely novel endeavor as far as Rui was concerned.

Domain manipulation was extremely rare. Even in the Kandrian Empire, with a whopping one hundred and fifty Martial Masters, there was merely a single domain-oriented Martial Artist.

Mind-oriented Martial Artists were not nearly as rare but were certainly far from frequent or common.

could walk down both

walk down already trodden paths, but forge their own paths down the two fields and

be surprised if it'd been ever attempted, let alone in the Lower Realms. However, it made sense to Rui. Sensory input was the channel through which hypnosis functioned. Domains manipulated heaven

Rui cursed. "It was stupid of me to fail to make this realization

from each other in such an incredibly synergistic manner.

He would deal with it after

enough on my plate at the moment," Rui heaved

couldn't dampen his excitement. The prospect of enhancing his pattern recognition system with an intent evaluation system

project panned out exactly how he hoped it would, then he would be able to claim the title of the strongest Martial Senior with much greater confidence than

the Angel of Laplace, and now this new project would elevate his nascent system of thought to

who had harnessed thought better than him. The Martial Union would not have allocated thirty-one trillion Martial Credits to the dissemination of his Martial Path as a field of thought if what he had to offer was not truly worth

information that he would be processing and

a brief moment, Rui wondered whether

no shot,"

of the brain aiding their thought. Rui was extremely smart, especially in his capacity to process information, but he could not beat such neurological

of Martial Masters spanned a larger part of the brain than normal humans and Martial Artists of the Lower Realms. The additional volume that the consciousness spanned was significantly larger, but the boost in processing that it