"To think that His Majesty would beco afflicted by this disease…" Minister Danes heaved a shaky breath. "I can only pray that this doesn't lead to complete catastrophe and disaster. His Majesty singlehandedly controls the fate of this continent. And since Princess Ria has managed to gain complete control over her father… it ans that she has beco the new most powerful person in this continent!"
The ministers grew troubled by the new set of problems that they faced with an emperor who was completely in love with his baby daughter. Rui, on the other hand, was happy that he found a way to spend ti with Ria while simultaneously not neglecting his duties as Emperor.
He watched her grow day by day as he made sure to spend more ti with her, showing her off to his friends and family on a routine basis. Kane and Fae would pop over more frequently with Runark and another baby on the way as Fae revealed that she was pregnant.
As Rui watched her grow up from the day she was born, he learned, or rather confird, what he knew about the nature of life, the Essence of Life.
It was adaptive evolution. Even the very act of growth was one of adaptive evolution. Growth occurred in the context of an environnt and circumstances; different environnts and different circumstances led to different kinds of growth.
On a deeper level, each experience beca the fuel for a particular kind of growth. His daughter, still very much in her infancy, was a limitless beacon of potential that could manifest in any way depending on her experiences, environnt, and circumstances.
Then it begged the question.
"Can we give her experiences, environnts, and circumstances that would lead to her growth to beco a genius of Martial Art?"
This was not a revolutionary thought by any ans. It had been considered in the Martial community, but their understanding of how to tap into this principle to direct growth in a certain manner was very crude. Before the advent of the Panamic Martial Federation, people would often throw their children into extrely dangerous situations to try to stimulate growth in order to produce geniuses.
It didn't work.
And Rui understood why such a barbaric, evil practice would not yield the kind of growth that one would want. If a baby were like a slab of molten iron that could be shaped into anything, then the hamring of a blacksmith was the pressures of life, the tribulations they faced.
If too much pressure was applied, then the iron would deform completely, leading to a broken product. That was the flaw with their thought process. "Babies are deeply sensitive and fragile beings; to subject them to such intense pressure is nothing short of heinous evil, not to ntion counter-productive to the goal they seek to achieve."
The very thought of it made Rui's blood boil with a vengeance. He imdiately passed legislation in the Kandrian Empire and in the Void Order that criminalized harsh Martial conditioning of children, as the Panamic Martial Federation once did, setting the punishnt for the cri as the death penalty, before returning to the matter.
"Torturous attempts of the past aside, there must be a gentle sequence of experiences, environnts, and circumstances that can lead to babies developing to be talented in a particular field."
His ethereal eyes lit up as he watched Ria trying to scoot across the floor in his royal chambers, playing with the many toys scattered on the floor. "Gagaga…"
"The question is what is talent," Rui remarked to himself, never once taking his eyes off his daughter. It wasn't very difficult for him to formulate an answer based on the many enlightennts that he had accrued on life, nature, and evolution.
"Talent is in so ways similar to Paths," Rui remarked. "It's the overlapping affinity of different aspects of a person's existence attuned to a particular sequence of actions."
A human being was a collection of countless paraters. Neurological paraters, biochemical paraters, anatomical paraters, and countless more variables set to a certain value that made up each individual person. 'Talent' was rely an alignnt of a large number of paraters being attuned to a particular set of activities.
For instance, Tokugawa's talent of Martial mimicry was nothing more than neuroplasticity between the inferior frontal gyrus, the inferior parietal lobule (where mirror neurons were located), and the cerebellum, which was responsible for motor coordination. These paraters being set the way they were was what led to the talent of copying any Martial Art he saw.
When described scientifically, Tokugawa Ieyasu's talent was actually quite mundane. It was the alignnt of rely ten or twenty paraters aligned towards Martial Art.
Less revolutionary geniuses like Kane had even fewer paraters expressly aligned with Martial Art, and it still made him a genius.
Then it begged the question.
If just twenty paraters being aligned with Martial Art could produce a peerless genius like Tokugawa Ieyasu, then what would a person with one hundred Martial Art paraters aligned towards Martial Art look like?
What about one thousand paraters or one million?
"What if every single parater in a person's existence was aligned with Martial Art?"
What kind of mind-boggling and unfathomable genius of transcendent caliber would such a person be?
"It would be era-defining."
His ethereal eyes lit up with inspiration as he gazed at his infant playing with toys. "Such a girl would easily beco the most powerful Martial Artist to have ever existed in all of history."
He had already made his decision.
"We will give our daughter that talent."
A radiant smile erged on his face. "That will be our gift to her as a father."
The question was how.
"We can't be as crude or barbaric about our approach."
That ant no subjecting his daughter to torturous tribulations and no ssing around with her geno with his quantum tweezers. Both options were evil, as far as he was concerned. He activated his Realms of power, hiding them from his daughter as the Forge of Creation blazed with power. A humane, but effective thod through which he could align his daughter's existential paraters to be attuned with Martial Art. He activated gamind and enhanced his cognition greatly through Anthean-half as his mind surged to find the answer.
And it did.
"Vibrations."
Vibrations were already scientifically shown to impact biochemistry, physiology, and the trajectory of one's biology. They even impacted the DNA passed on from cell to cell with each round of cell division.
And as long as he kept the frequency of the vibration very low, his daughter would never even notice it and would live her life normally. He just needed to find a way to figure out what kind of vibrations would make his daughter a genius.
A confident smile erged on his face as he dedicated his mind and body to the challenge. "We've overco more difficult hurdles. Nothing will stop us from giving our magnificent daughter the talent she deserves."
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