The Martial Unity

Offense, defense, and maneuvering-oriented Martial Artists. He was going to create a technique for each of them. However, he could not even get into the specifics of the technique, there were some basic rules that could be established about the techniques that he was creating before he could create them.

'The first basic necessity is that the ease of landing them on the opponent is high. It must have a very high probability of success in actually impacting the opponent's subconsciousness.' Rui established.

The reason for this was simple. The VOID algorithm was his most powerful technique, but it had shortcomings such as difficulty of activation. It took a lot of time and brainpower to create a predictive model and use the most powerful system within the VOID algorithm; the pattern recognition system.

He was trying to compensate for the activation difficulty of the VOID algorithm, so what was the point of trying to compensate for high activation difficulty with a technique that also had high activation difficulty?

It made no sense. He would simply be trying to activate two techniques with high activation difficulty, and there would be nothing that was actually trying to compensate for the time period while he was preparing for the VOID algorithm.

Thus he needed a technique that could be used easily, that was guaranteed to succeed in its hypnotic attempt no matter what to help with ensuring that he didn't lose while preparing the predictive mode.

Thus, each of the three techniques needed to be a low-difficulty technique with as powerful an outcome as such a technique permitted.

'In that case, the Greater Phantomind Void technique is not suited.' Rui mused. 'Or at the very least, I should create lesser and greater versions of all three techniques.'

That way, he could use the lesser versions prior to adapting to ensure that the probability of success was high even if came at the cost of a lower impact. Once he completed the predictive model on his opponent, then he could go to higher difficulty techniques that also produced greater effects.

With those conditions established in mind, it was time to get down to the specifics of each technique.

'First; offense,' Rui mused. 'I need a mental technique that is particularly useful against powerful offenses.'

Rui considered offensive Martial Artists. They usually relied on a lot of power, barring exceptions like poisons and mental techniques. Thus it would make sense to develop a technique that targeted this and sabotaged it.

'Body sabotage makes the most sense, as I'd concluded earlier.' Rui nodded.

If he could sabotage their bodies somehow, then he would be able to negate their offense significantly.

However, the biggest issue was the fact different Martial Artists used their power differently and employed it offensively quite differently as well. What that meant was that he needed to find something all Martial Artists used in order to sabotage that above all else.

Having too many targets would weaken the potency of the sabotage too much if also wanted to reduce the difficulty of the feat significantly.

'In that case, a singular target something to sabotage is...' Rui's eyes narrowed as his mind processed all possibilities before stumbling on to the perfect outcome. '...Breathing.'

Breathing was something that every human did.

Something that every human needed. Martial Artists were not exempt from this absolute rule either. In fact, an overwhelming majority of Martial Artists used breathing techniques to improve their combat.

Thus, if he could sabotage their breathing, he ought to be able to sabotage their generation of power. This was a safe universal organ to sabotage for guaranteed results.

'Furthermore...I don't even need to train too hard to generate an image through imagination for breathing sabotage...'

After all, in his previous life, Rui was terminally asthmatic and grappled with struggling with breathing his entire life. Although it had been over twenty-six years in this world, he could still remember the suffering he underwent like it was yesterday.

In hindsight, it truly was horrible.

He was partly able to power through his condition in his previous life thanks to the fact that he didn't know just how bad he had it. But in this life, he knew what it felt to breathe fully and deeply, he could even use breathing techniques to augment himself significantly.

'My opponents will experience my pain.' Rui declared. 'My suffering was not in vain. My suffering will become my strength.'

He was sure that he would be able to create an extraordinary as long as he relied on the countless memories of suffering that he had. He would be able to generate a powerful illusion that he could embody to adjust his body language such that he could convey and embed that same suffering into the subconscious mind, causing the target to be unable to breathe.

Not only breathing techniques but breathing in general will be hampered. Rui wondered if he would be able to get a target to suffocate and choke due to a lack of oxygen.

Regardless, he would find out eventually as long as he succeeded in the training project, which he intended to. he would be able to find out personally as long as he kept at it. The personal affinity for this technique would allow him to overcome the barriers to realizing this technique quite well in his opinion.

Furthermore, that was stacked on top of his already high affinity for mental techniques. No one could say just how powerful this technique would end up being, not even Master Zeamer could possibly understand the limits of this technique that well. That was why he was actually quite looking forward to the outcome of the project, maybe even a little too much.

"Hehehe..." Rui smirked, as some ideas centered around the powerful technique. he couldn't help but grow extremely excited about the end outcome, even if the training contained hardships, he did look forward to seeing just how his own suffering could translate into development of his Martial Path.