The Martial Unity

1945 Limits

One of the VOID algorithm's biggest shortcomings was its incompatibility with Gaia's supernatural and esoteric reality. Of course, Rui had made a lot of progress with it over the years, but he had never found a solution for adapting to beasts.

The pattern recognition system worked by choosing the most optimal and perfect counter to an opponent's predicted movement according to the predictive model. It was the adaptive evolution model that told Rui what the most optimal counter was.

Although it sounded fancy, the adaptive evolution model was just an enormous table with two rows. It contained the solution to all predicted movements.

If Rui predicted that his opponent was going to throw a hook punch, then he would look at the table and find the corresponding most optimal counter.

Hook punch -> Forward-stepping straight punch.

These were created in his previous life after countless experiments to determine the best counter to each attack, maneuver, and defense.

Keywords being 'in his previous life.'

It was optimized for regular humans.

As Rui became a Martial Artist and kept growing stronger, he gradually stopped relying on it because it became increasingly irrelevant and invalid against the supernatural Martial Art of this world.

He was forced to rely on instinct and experience, which he continuously gained more of over the years. Yet, he managed as his intuition was forged in the crucible of combat, allowing him to replicate, through experience, what was previously done by the adaptive evolution model.

It was a good replacement for the adaptive evolution model against other Martial Artists.

solve the problem when it

He did not have any experience with an overwhelming majority of them. The worst part was that even being a general expert was not enough. He would need to be a specialist on

than absolute perfection was tolerable

he had entered the Beast Domain. He had managed to make do by compensating for it with the sheer power of the

the reason that he and Kane had almost died against the six Master-level beasts of the mega-forest region. If Rui had been a super-expert on fauna, he would not have made that

the Elder

lightly in gratitude as Kane followed suit before returning his gaze to the massive tree.

listened to Rui's earnest plea. I am able and willing. I will pass on the sum totality of my knowledge of the biosphere of the Beast Domain to you in return for otherworldly knowledge

his

only

frowned. "What is

enormous, the Elder Tree informed him. Even considering your supernatural mind, it is not something that can be conveyed in a short time

"How long are

Five years.

widened with shock. "What?! Just how much information do you have that it takes a whopping five years of hypnotic transmission to give me everything you

can convey immense sensory data every second that you are awake and free, and it will still take five years

turned to Rui with a raised eyebrow.

Rui gritted his teeth.

Kane was right.

bring him back to the Kandrian Empire to heal his father before he died. Choosing to remain here for the knowledge was

of letting this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity go tore Rui's heart apart, causing him