The Martial Unity

However, even if it was not suited against defensive and maneuvering-oriented Martial Artists, it was suited to taking down offensive Martial Artists, which was good enough. A single solution could never be tuned to countering everything.

"I'll call this… Project Skyfall," Rui decided.

That occupied one technique slot that he could work on.

He still needed two more techniques for countering speed and defense.

He also needed techniques that weren't exclusive in nature; these techniques were meant to increase adaptive evolution, not sabotage the other elements of his adaptive evolution, which suggested that he ought to be able to fight normally even with domain techniques.

It was meant to expand the dimensions of his combat, not contract it. Although he wasn't too sure how realistic this condition was, he was willing to give it a shot.

Bearing that condition in mind, he had the perfect domain techniques in mind for defense and speed.

'For speed, I can create a domain that impedes all motion,' Rui realized. 'By using heaven-bending, it should be possible to manipulate the properties of drag force, specifically the drag coefficient.'

Rui grinned as he happened upon an incredible idea. Drag force was simply the force of air resistance when moving. The drag coefficient was a constant that every object had in a given medium, and it was essentially a measure of how much the air would impede motion for a given object moving at a given speed.

Drag force is increased by the square of the velocity of the object. Meaning if the object became twice as fast, then the drag force would become four times stronger. If the object became thrice as fast, then the drag force would become nine times stronger.

However, Rui conjectured, based on his somewhat decent knowledge of aerodynamics, that it would be possible to use heaven bending to alter drag force and the drag coefficient for it to increase cubically or even tetragonally or by even greater degrees to velocity, not just squarically.

Thus, if an object grew twice as fast, then this time, drag force would become sixteen, or possibly thirty-two times stronger!

This would severely impede any and all motion. Rui knew that drag force was a menace because it was the biggest challenge back on Earth when it came to creating rockets or jets that could propel forward at extremely high speeds.

If Rui increased the magnitude of that problem exponentially within his domain, then it was most likely enough to pose extremely harsh barriers to maneuvering and speed-oriented Martial Artists.

The drag force equation was actually quite trivial, so Rui was able to run numerous elementary simulations in his head, calculating the various outcomes.

In the most optimistic projections, maneuvering and speed-oriented Martial Artists would be able to move at only ten percent of their full speed!

The sheer drag force would cancel away ninety percent of their acceleration, reducing them to extremely slow speeds, This domain was theoretically so antithetical to speed-

oriented Martial Artists that it gave even Temporal Disharmony a run for its money!

"It works!" He grinned excitedly as he began plotting out the mechanics of the technique. The hard part would be figuring out how to use heaven-bending to alter the nature of the drag force and the drag coefficient of the medium inside his domain. But as hard as it was, Rui was confident that he could overcome this hurdle.

In addition, he could add an element of earth-bending where he decreased the friction of the land around his opponent, making it almost impossible to leverage their force to accelerate. With this, he would complete and thoroughly crush almost any speed or maneuvering-oriented Martial Artist.

"I shall call this Project Speed Prison," Rui filled up another project slot in his head. It was not going to be easy to accomplish either project by itself, but since he was taking both of them on and another, he knew that he was going to be putting himself through a rough time.

For the third project, he had an interesting idea that had struck him while he was mastering heaven bending but had postponed exploring until he finished training his foundations.

This project was dedicated to an anti-defensive domain that targeted defensive Martial Artists.

"Acoustic conduction."

It was a phenomenon that most people did not anything about. It was the process of heating via sound. Sound, in completely killing their Martial Art.

general, always produced heat. However, it was possible to convert sound to heat.

In general, they were very similar kinds of energies that were centered on the vibration of particles. The only difference was that sound was ordered and directional, while heat was unordered and non-directional.

The difference between the two was much smaller than most people realized.

Rui was already extremely proficient with sound. While his intuitive understanding was not on par with Xanarn, his scientific understanding of sound obviously far surpassed hers. With techniques like Transverse Resonance and Death's Sympathy, he had expanded his intuitive grasp of sound wider than probably anybody else in the Senior Realm. That was why he was keen on exploring this principle to create a domain technique that employed his mastery of sound.

Since he was creating a domain that was antithetical to defense, he wanted to create a domain that bypassed defense in some way, either directly inflicting damage or indirectly.

With acoustic heating, he could heat up his opponent's internal body temperature through a domain of sound. This domain, like Project Skyfall, would have a small target scope, but the domain itself would leverage the atmosphere and the land to employ sound to converge on to his opponent's body.

The trick was to not allow sound to propagate. By bombarding his opponent with sound from all directions, the vectors would cancel out, and the sound would no longer be directional or ordered, turning into heat.

This was a domain that would cook his opponent inside out, literally.

"I shall call this Project Malevolent Kitchen," Rui declared.