Chapter 2141: Hypnotic Solution

Rui continued to spend time gathering experience within the manifold. As hoards of Martial Masters continued to rush into the dungeon, he knew that he wouldn't be running out of opponents anytime soon.

However, one of the problems he faced was that once he created a predictive and SOUL model on his opponent, he could never gain any meaningful experience from them ever again. This was due to the fact that his systems of thought were too overwhelmingly powerful. They literally showed him highly accurate predictions and the physical intentions, at their inception, of his opponents. Thus, he came to a firm decision to maximize the experience he gained from this particular exercise.

"I won't use the pattern recognition system or the SOUL System against Martial Masters that can't win against me when I do use them."

It was a remarkably decisive, albeit extreme, decision.

Yet, he was quite certain of his choice.

He had decades of experience with the pattern recognition system of the VOID algorithm. He had years of experience with the SOUL System. Now, in order to cultivate his intuition and experience, he wished to be divorced from the systems of thought for some time so that he could develop the former.

His decision was well met with approval from his friends in the Master Realm. "It makes sense. They help you in combat but can be a liability in training other things due to how strong they are," Master Ceeran offered.

"Systems of thought and intuition often overlap in the same purposes," Headmaster Aronian remarked eruditely. "In your case, you have been utilizing a system of thought that was very powerful from a very young stage, mildly crippling the growth of your intuition. It would do you good to put your systems of thought aside for a bit to ensure that your intuition doesn't fall back too behind."

"It would behoove you to consider fighting Martial Artists of the Senior Realm without your Martial Mind or systems of thought if you're willing to put them aside."

Their insights helped refine how he intended to spend his training time inside the manifold, fleshing out how the next few years were going to look.

However, he had plenty of things to do even outside of his training schedule.

"So these are the first batch, hm?" Rui raised an eyebrow as he inspected a large crowd of students from across all sixteen Martial academies of the Kandrian Empire.

Seeing their uniforms made him slightly nostalgic about his time as a nobody in the Martial Academy of Hajin.

"Yes, Your Highness." A man bowed deeply before Rui. "His Majesty hopes that you will be able to break them through to the Apprentice Realm."

Rui heaved a sigh. "It's not that easy, you know."

He had confirmed his ability to break students of the exploration stage in the Martial Academy with a student that he had personally tutored. However, it had required one-on-one attention from him.

"His Majesty is aware of that, most certainly." The man remained bowed before Rui. "However, those limitations existed when you were a Martial Squire, two realms below your current level of power."

Rui stirred at those words.

He would be lying if he said that he hadn't considered that exact rationale.

He was a Martial Master.

He was capable of a lot more things compared to when he was a mere Squire. The sheer amount of raw power, control and mastery, and cognition that he had at this point in time was so high that nothing that used to be impossible when he was a Squire was even relevant anymore.

"I have some ideas," Rui admitted. "I'll need to think about it."

"Of course, Your Highness."

Rui fell into consideration as to how he could turn all these students into Martial Artists. The breakthrough into the Apprentice Realm was about discovering one's Martial Path, an emergent field of Martial Art within each person that they had an absolute prime affinity for. The breakthrough was born out of self-awareness. Rui had long discovered that he could significantly hasten the breakthrough process and increase the odds of it happening by a large extent. He did this by creating predictive models of them and then embodying those predictive models in his movements, allowing him to mimic his targets' combat identically.

It was a lesser version of the copying that Ieyasu could do, which led him to believe that his rival could trigger breakthroughs in the Apprentice Realm to a much greater degree than even he could.

They had a silent shared agreement not to cause problems forever.

Rui shook his head, returning to the present as his attention fell back on the students gathered in the pavilion.

"I definitely can't trigger all their breakthroughs manually one by one in person," Rui muttered. "That would take far too long and would lead to a worthless increase in the number of Apprentice breakthroughs."

He needed a practical solution that allowed him to overcome the logistics constraint of triggering all their breakthroughs to a remarkably low degree.

"Ah..." Rui's eyes lit up as he stumbled upon the perfect solution, and his mind furiously processed all possibilities. "Mass hypnosis is the way to go."

Via mass hypnosis, he could have each of them face clones of themselves that fought identically to them via the predictive and SOUL models that he created on each of them. This was essentially an even better version of copying their Martial Art and fighting them himself with it. Furthermore, by substituting himself with hypnosis, he could reach a much larger number of people simultaneously. It was the perfect way to overcome the physical limits of how many people he could train at once personally by himself.

"I would need to create predictive and SOUL models on all of them."

However, that was an extremely trivial task for him with his Martial Mind. Even without it, it wouldn't have been a problem, considering that they weren't even Martial Artists.

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