The Martial Unity

Rui immediately handed over the data that they had recorded with a remote recording device that a few people possessed. The analysis team quickly began appraising the value of a technique when weighed against the Martial Artists’ competence and skill. This would allow them to objectively isolate the technique’s capabilities from that of the Martial Artist’s mastery.

The way this worked was by taking the average time it took for other Martial Artists of the Martial tribe to master the technique. Then it would be compared to the time it took for the Martial Artist that demonstrated the technique to Rui, to master it. If the demonstrating Martial Artist achieved basic mastery of it sooner, then one can presume that the Martial Artist likely possesses talent or affinity that is perhaps biasing the results. The value of the technique will be increased or reduced by one or two grades if the difference in the time it took for the demonstrating Martial Squire was too great compared to the average.

The same would be done for the amount of time that the Martial Squire has mastered the technique.

If the Martial Artist had mastered the technique for decades, then it can be assumed that part of the quality of the performance came not from the technique, but how deeply the Martial Artist had mastered the technique. Obviously someone who only just mastered it would be much inferior in performance, which would be a more accurate reflection of the technique.

In that regard, Rui’s Pathfinder scored quite high. He had only mastered the technique in a little under four months and had spent nine months creating the technique.

This way, the value of the technique can be gauged while accounting for talent and mastery.

These estimations were relatively simple, partly due to the simplicity of the information that they had to work with. What surprised them was that Rui not only understood their work but was completing it even faster than them!

“This is completely wrong,” Rui shook his head as he inspected the work of one of the analysts.

“Um… Sir?”

“The time period of mastery of a technique is not the same as the time period needed to create it from scratch, the Sky-splitting Tempestuous Whirlwind Sword technique was a technique that was created from constituent techniques that the Martial Artist had already mastered. You need to account for these differences in order to accurately gauge the proportion of the empirical potency grade of the technique that is caused by the time period of initial mastery.”

“I-I see…”

Soon enough, they had the data they needed. The actual and accurate value of the techniques of the Martial Artists in the form of power and difficulty grades of the techniques, as well as their dissemination value in the form of the success rate of the mastery of the technique.

“Interesting…” Rui hummed as he studied the analysis on the Mighty Roar Flash Blast technique. “This just might work…”

Rui smiled as some of his excitement leaked out.

(‘The fact that it can surpass the speed of sound… means that constructive superposition is possible,’) Rui’s eyes lit up.

Constructive superposition was a phenomenon described in the classical theory of waves like that of sound waves. When two simple harmonic waves met and overlapped, there were three possibilities; either the two waves canceled each other out to a certain degree resulting in a weaker wave, or they added their strength to create an even stronger wave with a greater amplitude.

It could be envisioned with ocean waves. If two ocean waves overlapped them such that the crest overlapped with the crest, it would yield an even greater crest. However, if the crest overlapped with the trough, then the two would naturally cancel each other out resulting in still water.

The former was known as constructive superposition, and the latter was known as destructive superposition.

Rui was interested in the former.

(‘If I launch a sound bullet, before launching a second sound bullet that was even faster. I could potentially merge the two attacks into one using constructive superposition…’)

He wasn’t sure if it was possible or not. But if it was possible…

(‘The power of my long-range attacks would increase a lot. Maybe I wouldn’t have had so many clean shaves against the woman,’) He recalled his final against the Martial Squires of the K’ulnen Tribe.

The female Martial Artist he fought against could shrug off his Pathfinder Sonic bullets like they were a child’s attack. If not for his idea of striking her funny bone to shove aside her arm, he may not have won that fight.

Winning a fight with tactics and strategy when his power was insufficient was definitely something he had done plenty of. What he would rather happen was to never be put in a situation where his power would be insufficient.

If he could superimpose two Pathfinder Sonic Bullets into one attack making twice as strong, or perhaps even more than two, then he would be able to hit far above his grade, most likely. His grade was already higher than it should have been on paper by more than one grade thanks to the VOID algorithm, but with this, he might even end up being two grades higher than he actually was!

(‘I don’t if this will work or not, but will I really get another chance to strengthen the Pathfinder technique’s attack potency by such a degree through any other means…?’) Rui wondered, before shaking his head.

There was very little chance that he would get such an opportunity. What were the odds that he would find a technique whose system and mechanics were centered around sound and wave mechanics, that would allow him to amplify the power of a technique beyond his ordinary limit thanks to synergy with his strengths?

(‘Almost non-existent… really.’) He sighed.

That just made his decision that much more certain. There was no way that he could let it go after making the realization that he just had.