The Martial Unity

For the Apprentice-level technique, he could go on one step further and give out techniques that employed a basic amount of data analytics. It didn’t need to be something insane, but Martial Apprentices could certainly use a good deal of more rigorous data-driven analytics.

In this world, he even had a trump card that he didn’t have in his previous life.

‘The Mind Palace technique,’ Rui mused.

If Rui were to be asked which technique he would retain and was forced to lose all other techniques his Martial Art had, he would unhesitatingly choose the Mind Palace technique.

It wasn’t even close. Not even remotely.

It was the final key to the power of the VOID algorithm. It was the final piece of the puzzle that made the VOID algorithm not just practical but also extremely powerful!

Without it, he was far weaker.

The Mind Palace technique and him were a match made in heaven. What was originally an extremely basic and simple one-dimensional technique whose only utility was to allow dimwitted Martial Artists to not forget mission details in the middle of a mission had turned into arguably the most powerful technique that Rui had ever created in his life.

It had gone from a room, like in the original technique, to a gigantic city that contained places from across his first and second life.

His childhood home back on Earth.

His research lab.

His hospital room in the twilight of his life.

The Quarrier Orphanage.

The Martial Academy.

The Town of Hajin.

The Serevian Dungeon.

Vilun Island.

The Shionel Dungeon.

Ajanta Island.

These, and many more places, had been embedded and fused into a Frankenstein city that became the foundation of his Mind Palace technique.

It allowed his thought process to become like that of a computer. He had created an extremely organized system of memory and recall, allowing him to access any and all information in the Mind Palace quickly.

Every ounce of information that he stored in it contained tags. If he remembered a map of a place, then he would tag it with ‘map,’ the name of the place the map was showing, the style of cartography, and any other details that he might inquire into in the future.

Then he stored that map into categories of each of those tags, each having its own isolated section of the city. One isolated part of the Mind Palace contained everything that Rui had ever tagged with ‘map.’

This included the map of the Kandrian Empire, the town of Hajin, and even the map of the Shionel Dungeon that he had created for Guildmaster Bradt. Each tag had its own section in the Mind Palace technique. He even had a mental map of the entire Mind Palace should he ever need to find a particular tag!

If he ever needed something regarding a particular tag, then he would just travel to his Mind Palace and the section of the particular tag and then walk around, scouring that section until he found what he wanted. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ ɴo(v)elꜰɪre.ɴet

It was not as absolutely robotic as a computer in the literal sense, but his conscious memory now had a system of protocols that allowed for smooth flow and storage of information.

Of course, he did not expect other Martial Apprentices to be able to expand their Mind Palaces so much. In the first place, one’s affinity for conscious thought-based techniques determined what you would be able to do with the Mind Palace technique.

The techniques that he planned for Martial Apprentices did not require them to have extremely powerful Mind Palace techniques. They just needed to be able to store tallied data into basic tables and access it quickly.

Compared to the sheer amount of information that Rui juggled with, this was nothing. It was less than 0.01% of what he handled on a regular basis. He had plenty of ideas about the techniques that he was going to be creating for Martial Apprentices.

For one, he could have them engage in a very minor and highly diluted level of adaptive evolution as a general all-rounder technique. He could have them record and tally his opponent’s actions in a table across the fight to give them a good idea of the configuration of their style.

How many actions were offensive?

How many actions were defensive?

How many were maneuvering-oriented?

This information, along with an evaluation of physical parameters, should be enough information to allow them to make the most objectively superior strategic decision every single time when it comes to their general combat approach.

It could allow them to make the most accurate decision in regard to how much weight they should put on offense, defense, and maneuvering. How energy-conservative should they be and rough estimates of what the probability of victory was?

They were low-hanging fruits that yielded results without mentally overloading them with an ocean of information.

Thus began a long and slow process of creating two separate classes of techniques for explorers and Apprentices. The latter with Mind Palace-centric thought and the former was simply based on normal observation.

He needed to slow down on his domain techniques and take his time with them, but in turn, the voidlet techniques were being developed at a rapid speed.

Because they borrowed so heavily from the VOID algorithm, he didn’t need to think too much about them. That was why the process had become excessively simple.

Most of his time was spent meditating while he relaxed in his Mind Palace, creating simplified algorithms of thought and decision-making that could allow the next generation of Martial Artists to harness thought from the get-go.

“Damn, I hope these new Martial Artists are grateful to me,” Rui grumbled. “I gave them stronger Martial Bodies, stronger affinities for the Master Realm…Kids these days are getting everything handed out to them on a silver platter. Just completely and totally unfair I say.”

Regardless, he pushed through, developing these sets of voidlet techniques alongside his four domain projects.