"Other Martial Masters take a lot of pride in it. It's a sign of the ascended. The hallmark of the Master Realm...But if you ask , it ain't that big a deal," Master Zear snorted. "It's just a passive hypnotic effect on the minds of lesser beings. It works the sa as an illusionary hypnotic technique that I showed you, but passively, and only on Martial Artists of the Lower Realms."
"A passive illusion?" Rui's eyes narrowed as his mind flashed into action processing the new and old information he had. "I see. I understand the truth."
"Sharp as always," Master Zear chuckled.
"Illusionary techniques work by misdirecting the consciousness, and then using non-verbal communication to manipulate the subconscious mind which is extrely susceptible to external suggestions," Rui's eyes swum around, imrsed in thought. "If Martial Masters are able to generate illusions in the minds of the beholder, then that ans that they are going through the sa process. A number of inferences can be made."
"You said it was passive and caused by the Martial Mind," Rui mused. "That ans that the Martial Mind is impacting the body's non-verbal communication in the sa way that image embodint impacts non-verbal communication in a hypnotic technique. The Martial Mind impacts the subconsciousness in the sa image embodint does. That's why it generated the necessary non-verbal communication to manipulate the senses into seeing an illusion. But in order for that to happen..."
Rui's eyes narrowed.
"Go on," Master Zear encouraged with an amused smile.
"For that to happen, it would an that the Martial Art of Martial Masters is so captivating and eye-drawing that it distracts the conscious mind so much that it leaves the unconscious mind open to manipulation to the non-verbal communication caused by the Martial Mind. But that's just absurd."
"Is it?" Master Zear asked. "It's just the natural progression. The Martial Art of the Upper Realms is truly far beyond human limits, both ntally and physically. They are said to have ascended humanity. That is why such a thing is possible."
Rui raised an eyebrow of skepticism. "I see."
"You said you ca here to use my Martial Embodint as the image embodint of your misdirection techniques, correct?" Master Zear thoughtfully considered it. "That's actually quite the genius idea. My Martial Embodint is suited for such a purpose."
"Then..."
Master Zear glanced at Rui for a mont, sipping his tea.
One mont, he was just an old man sipping so tea peacefully.
The very next mont, his very existence seed to shift.
Rui gritted his teeth as an enormous wave of pressure crashed into his mind with an oppressive dominance. The weight of the Master Realm pushed down on him. He needed to struggle just to maintain his attention on the hypnotic spiral that had blood out of Master Zear's figure. So much so that he even activated his Martial Heart to help.
He could understand why Martial Masters avoided going all out against their peers in the public eye. If he was struggling so much to resist its ntal effects, then the average person would definitely suffer brain damage or sothing.
While the Martial Heart enhanced his brain enough to help him focus, he quickly recorded every single detail of the illusion that he was experiencing.
The radius and diater of the hypnotic circle, the number of spiraling lines, and even the exact colors of the illusion. He also made sure to accurately record the angular velocity and the spiral so that he could replicate its motion accurately.
It wasn't too long before he was done.
"Man..." Rui huffed as he sat down. "That was stressful."
"Hahaha!" Master Zear laughed at his expense. "You sure did well to resist my Martial Embodint."
"It's no wonder you Martial Masters are not allowed to fight seriously in front of people," Rui voiced his thoughts. "In addition to having incredible destructive power."
"The latter is actually not a reason," Master Zear remarked. "Martial Master fights are actually no more destructive than the fights between normal humans. Though this isn't universal as so Martial Art inherently have wide-scale destruction."
Rui's eyes widened. "What?!"
"It's the truth..." Master Zear remarked as he sipped his tea. "The control that the cognition of the Martial Mind grants us is beyond what you can experience."
"But... I once saw a fight between Martial Masters escalate to large environntal damage. And I don't think either of them was particularly scale-oriented," Rui frowned.
Master Zear narrowed his eyes, as a knowing glint flashed in his eyes. "Then one of them must have been actively trying to cause environntal destruction on purpose."
Rui frowned his eyes swum around, imrsed in thought. "But which one... and why?"
The Master shrugged. "That's for you to figure out. Do you need anything else from ?"
"No."
"Then scatter, from here on out, I must seclude myself in my grand bedroom for so...dostic matters." The man couldn't hide a lewd smile arising on his face.
Rui heaved a sigh, facepalming. "I didn't need to know that."
He bade the Master goodbye as quickly as possible before returning to his ditation chamber.
'Alright, let's revisit the juicy data I collected.' Rui accessed his Mind Palace excitedly as he gathered the distributed pixel data, creating a video of the Martial Embodint of Master Zear.
The sheer weight of a Martial Master as powerful as Master Zear allowed the image embodint to pressure Rui's mind a lot more than Master Uma's blade of wind ever had. It confird to Rui the sheer superiority of Martial Masters like Master Zear.
'It's a sha that I never got to see Master Reina's Martial Embodint,' Rui realized. 'It was just never relevant.'
Considering that the Martial Embodint reflected the Martial Path, her Martial embodint would probably not be flashy at all.
'In fact, it might draw attention further away from her, rather than to her, After all, a flashy Martial Embodint is a liability to an assassin.' Rui mused.
She would be an incompetent assassin if she draw massive attention each ti she used her full power.
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