Ti passed on Cloudia as Rui imrsed himself in training. He spent most of his ti ditating in the ditation chambers of the cloud town, isolating himself from any and all disturbances and distractions.
The only tis he wasn't doing that were when he was sleeping or doing other daily basic necessities. Of course, every once in a while, he would spar against the Hypnomaster alongside Ieyasu. He also sparred against Ieyasu many tis just to ensure his battle instinct didn't rot.
"This is one of the issues with training ntal techniques," The Hypnomaster explained. "Spend too long imrsed in training them, and you'll go from a Martial Artist to a sage. The normal kind, too, not the Martial kind. Hahaha!"
On top of that, Rui and Ieyasu were routinely tasked with the duty of hunting food for all of Cloudia every once in a while. This too was because of another rule from the Martial Master. They could hunt any beast or beasts as long as it wasn't the Illusionary Dragon, the beast was apparently a rare and powerful species that the Hypnomaster was rearing. Furthermore, it filtered out the competent Martial Artists from the incompetent.
It only made their jobs harder when they ran into it, since they weren't allowed to kill it. "Hah! It's good to face challenges. Martial Artists should learn to hunt their own food. Being coddled will do you no good," He said, as he was coddled by multiple won attendants. Rui heaved a sigh, massaging his temples. The man was an eccentric character, even if he was a powerful Martial Master. It helped that he was earnestly helping Rui and Ieyasu out.
Rui didn't know what he was helping the latter out with specifically, but he knew that it had sothing to do with the man's Martial Mind. He grew stronger every ti they fought.
He would be lying if he said that working to be ahead of Ieyasu wasn't one of his goals as a Martial Artist. It couldn't be helped, Ieyasu was one of the few guys of his own generation that he didn't have to hold back about.
Often, when he sparred against peers or friends, he generally needed to hold back in order to ensure that he didn't go far and cross a line. However, he had found that Ieyasu was perhaps the first person he had co across who possessed a Martial Path that was of the sa caliber as his own.
It was not sothing Rui could overwhelm easily. It ant that Rui didn't have to worry about him or coddle him, he could simply go all out and focus on winning. This was sothing that he had co to treasure, even if he was too proud to admit it to Ieyasu.
It was true that both of them had grown at a much faster rate than when they were away from each other. Frequently being forced to spar with each other not only allowed them to compare their rates of growth but also drove them to train and work harder.
Rui suspected that that was the reason that the Hypnomaster made them spar with each other in the first place. Regardless, his routine drew into a monotony of training, hunting, and sparring. Most of his ti went into one of the four hypnosis projects that he had chosen to embark on.
He mad remarkably fast progress, as expected, faster than any Martial Artist that the Hypnomaster had ever seen. Yet most Martial Artists only trained one technique at a ti, while Rui was working on four.
On top of that, he had chosen to also work on an elentary algorithm that would allow him to decide how to apply the hypnomatrix most efficiently. After all, it wasn't the most cut-and-dry matter.
For one, not every Martial Artist cleanly fell into offensive, defensive, and maneuvering. He, of all people, knew that very well. If he did co across Martial Artists who were clearly heavily inclined toward one of the three, then that was fine, but if he didn't, then he needed to choose the best outco.
With the way ntal techniques worked, it was possible to use multiple at the sa ti at a fraction of their individual potency. It may have been the case that there was an optimal distribution of how much of each technique he ought to use against Martial Artists who didn't cleanly fall into offense, defense, or maneuvering categories.
In such cases, how was Rui supposed to use the three ntal techniques?
That was why he also worked on a minor system of thought that would allow him to arrive at the best way to use the three techniques. It was certainly a difficult thing to add on top of the four projects that he was already working on, reducing his ti even further, but alas, it could not be helped.
He was prepared to lengthen the ti he spent on Cloudia if that was what it took. This was especially important since he knew that this fifth extra project would contribute to his Martial Mind, which was definitely ranking extrely high at the top of his list of priorities.
If he was going to create a system of thought that could fill his vast Martial Mind, he needed to make little steps of progress until they eventually accumulated enough to get him to fulfill the necessary threshold.
He didn't know how much he had left to go, all he knew was that the VOID algorithm filled up so uncertain amount of the totality of his budding Martial Mind. However, it was highly unlikely that he would fill the remaining gap left with another gaproject like the VOID algorithm.
'I should make progress wherever I can.'
Smaller projects like the Hypnomatrix that allowed him to decide how to apply his ntal techniques might be much smaller than the rest of the VOID algorithm, making a small impact, but it was progress nonetheless.
By the ti Rui completed his training, more than two years had already passed.
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