The Martial Unity



Rui had taken the day off, something he almost never did. But he wanted to spend at least twenty-four hours gaining some basic acclimatization with his strange and new body. While the change wasn't anywhere nearly as drastic as when he broke through to the Squire Realm, it was not insignificant.

"So, how was it?" Julian asked.

Rui immediately reached home, spending time with his family, especially his brother.

"The procedure was a perfect success with no complications at all," Rui explained, sighing. "However, I have yet to grow accustomed to it. And as for mastering it, I don't see it happening any time soon, unfortunately. It will definitely take time."

"That is to be expected," Julian sighed. "The fact that you came up with such a technique surrounding something as immaterial as gravity. Even for you, this is truly remarkable. I'm glad there are no complications, it's a good thing you are a Martial Squire."

A lot of the time Rui had spent on the technique had gone into verifying that his body was capable of taking in the two esoteric substances and compounds without any long-term health detriments. He had had Julian aid him to a degree with optimizing the amount of esoteric mass he would be implanting into his body.

"Work hard to obtain proficiency with your new senses," Julian told him. "I too am curious to know about the end outcome.

"Don't worry, I can't wait to master it," Rui had replied.

Unfortunately, the upcoming part of the training was something that he would rather complete with the help of the Martial Union. While it was possible to train his new sense by himself, it was far more inefficient. The biggest hindrance was that his senses were too strong.

At this stage, he had three sensory techniques and none of them were weak, his mind would not be able to increase its proficiency if he could not stop his existing powerful senses from allowing him to perceive the world. His mind was subconsciously too dependent on his existing senses to be able to use his newfound gravitational sense to its best.

The Martial Union, however, had come up with the perfect solution. It had developed special training rooms and facilities that were capable of sealing off all of the normal senses that Martial Artists, as well as any of the sensory techniques that existed in the Martial Union.

By sealing off all of the existing senses of a Martial Artist and throwing them into complete darkness, it accelerated their mastery of a new sensory technique significantly.

The principle behind this kind of training was the same as the reason why a human being's other senses grew far sharper once a person lost their sense of vision.

Thus he hastily returned to the Martial Union, applying to book a training session with the resources needed for the special sensory training methodology of the Martial Union.

"I'm afraid, we do not have the available training rooms and slots needed to allow you six hours of daily training," The employee bowed her head when she checked up on his request.

This had initially come as a surprise, but in hindsight, it shouldn't have. It had been five months since the discovery of the Shionel Dungeon, and not even a third of the dungeon had yet been explored to the waves of monsters and the heavily hampered senses within the Shionel Dungeon.

It was only natural that the number of Martial Artists running to master sensory techniques would skyrocket. He wasn't too surprised that even the large Martial Art training facilities were starting to run a little low on the available training and growth resources that were available at any time.

"Is that so…" Rui sighed. "Please allow me to purchase all that is available at the moment."

"Of course sir," She nodded. "Can you please provide me with your Martial license?"

Rui handed over his Martial license glumly. He was not happy with this development but there wasn't much that he could do at the moment. He could simply make the best of what he had at the moment.

"Ah…" The employee turned back to Rui. "It appears that you will be able to procure the daily six hours of training that you have requested after all, Squire Quarrier."

"Hm?" Rui's eyebrows furrowed. "Did the booked slots really clear up in the past ten seconds?"

"Not at all, however, your profile has been marked with a priority tag over the goods and services of the Martial Union over a lot of other external Martial Squires," She explained.

"What?" Rui frowned. "I've never heard of this before."

"It is unusual for the Martial Union to be unable to meet the demand for its Martial Art services, after all."

Rui considered her explanation, it was most likely correct. However, it was also likely that it had contributed to his speedy service with the Martial Union. His purchases were delivered as early as possible while any procedure he booked could be scheduled as early as a few hours later, at times.

These were things that he had perhaps been taking for granted.

"I see…" Rui nodded. "In that case, I'd like to go ahead and purchase six hours a day for the next three months, for starters."

"Will do, sir," She nodded.

Soon enough, Rui found himself in the sensory training facility of the Martial Union's training wing.

He quickly donned a special suit that suppressed the five natural senses of the human body. Rui had a lot more insight into how the suit functioned now that he had brushed up a lot on esoteric materials science.

While the suit alone would take care of the five senses, as well as Tempestuous Feel in his case, the training room would take care of the Seismic Radiation.

Primordial Instinct would naturally be suppressed with all of his other senses being suppressed since the technique wasn't a form of physical sensing but highly enhanced danger sense.