The Martial Unity

The idea set off an explosion inside his mind, blowing away the image that he was refining in his head.

"What's the matter?" Master Reina asked. "Why have you stopped cultivating the image for the misdirection?"

Rui ignored her question as his eyes swum around, completely lost in his thoughts. 'Videos are probably easier to get immersed into since they are identical to the manner in which our minds interpret vision. As a series of chronological images.' Rui realized. 'That means that if I use a video or GIF instead of an image, won't the misdirection be much more effective on my targets and opponents because it's much more effective on me?'

His mind worked furiously as he extrapolated the outcome of a video in place of an image for a misdirection technique, modeling the response of the human conscious and subconscious mind.

"It works!" Rui exclaimed, excited.

"What are you doing?" She frowned.

He had been wondering how he could leverage his evolved mind to create a more powerful misdirection technique beyond simple applications when he logically arrived at this simple answer.

Perhaps creating a three-dimensional simulation video of a hostile Martial Master was impossible for Martial Seniors, but it was within the Realm of possibility for Rui. If he could achieve this, just how absurdly powerful of a misdirection technique would he be able to create?

"I have never been ignored to such a level in my life, barring misdirection techniques."

'However, while the output of the technique will be much higher than any ordinary misdirection technique, the burden on the mind will also be proportionally higher.' Rui realized. 'Normally, this isn't such a big problem, but the issue is that my mind is already filled with other burdensome things.'

The VOID Algorithm, the ODA System, Transverse Resonance, and Death's Sympathy. Each of these was a technique that required a lot of brainpower. The ODA System was something that Senior Ceeran had managed to reluctantly partially master after more than a year of hand-holding from Rui personally. There were times when Rui used all four simultaneously, like when assassinating his targets.

To add on top another mentally burdensome technique on top of all of them was too much even for Rui.

'At least, it's too much for the video misdirection technique.' Rui realized. 'It's manageable for an image misdirection technique.'

In that case, perhaps it would be better to create two misdirection techniques.

'To be more precise, two levels of the same misdirection technique.' Rui noted. 'One for when my mind is unburdened. And the other for when my mind is consumed by other things. Still... this is indicative of a larger problem.'

He was starting to reach a stage where even his mind was starting to have trouble juggling all the techniques that he was coming up with. It was like a computer with too many programs running, consuming the processing speed of the computer.

'The only way to go forward is to find a way to resolve this.' Rui realized.

He wasn't sure how, but it was not an acute problem. 'I definitely cannot compromise the VOID algorithm. Everything else will have to make do.'

It was possible to use the video-misdirection technique if he was only using the VOID algorithm and nothing else. Thus, there was still plenty of room for him to use the misdirection technique since the other mind-consuming techniques were a lot more niche.

The resulting technique would be extraordinarily powerful if he employed it with the VOID algorithm, however, its utility in combat in direct combat would be much more restrained because of how much it would delay his reactions and reflexes.

'Kane's Void Step doesn't nearly suffer from the same problem because it relies more on maneuvering than misdirection and maneuvering is a fundamental part of combat while misdirection isn't.' Rui realized enviously. 'Oh well, I will have to live with the fact that my stealth will far exceed his by the time I'm done even if it isn't smoothly applicable in combat.'

Nonetheless, the impacts of this technique would be absolutely staggering!

"I exist, you know, at some point, you have to acknowledge me." Master Reina complained.

Rui couldn't imagine just how absurd his misdirection ability would become when he mastered the technique that he sought to master. If Void Step was any indication, Rui could practically consider himself undetectable within the Senior Realm entirely with such a technique.

While he had yet to meet a high-grade Martial Senior, but he was willing to wager that not even they would be resistant to his new idea.

He grinned excitedly as he immediately began working on his idea. He needed to quickly establish the goal in concrete terms.

'A long video may be unnecessary, it's much more practical to work with medium-sized video that will play in a loop as a GIF in my head.' Rui's eyes swam as he grew immersed in his mind. 'Also, it may be worth it to rely on my memories to form the template of the GIF in my head. I can significantly ease my burden and complete the project within remarkably reasonable timelines.'

These kinds of video graphics and CGI projects would take months back on Earth even when highly skilled people had actual high-quality computers and premium software.

Rui was going to do the same but with nothing but his imagination and memory. An absurd feat that would be absolutely impossible to even comprehend for anybody except Rui.

And yet, to him, it was not only possible but inevitable. He forged forward with confidence as streams of thoughts flashed through his mind.

'Let's set the epicenter as the perspective of the three-dimensional simultation. Let's keep the framerate at about sixty FPS from my perspective. Let's set three parallel information tracks, one for vision, sound, and touch to get a better sense of realism for the misdirection to be more effective. That should be a manageable project.'

BAM!

"Ouch!" Rui groaned.

"I said stop ignoring me!"