After Rui fleshed out the requirements and objectives of his second technique development project, he put it aside for the time being. He would need to do more research before he could flesh out both of his projects any further.
(''I should give the projects names if I''m going to have more than one.'') Rui shrugged. (''For the piercing technique, I should call it the... the Severer Project. The long-range technique project will be called... the Sniper Project.'') Rui nodded. (''Both of these technique projects are centered around offensive techniques, I should probably develop a defensive project as well.'')
However, deriving a defensive project was easier said than done. He needed toe up with a concept of a technique that was extremely potent with the cost of being very demanding on the uracy of timing and cement of the execution of said technique.
(''Well, for starters, it would have to be an active defense.'') Rui noted.
Only active defense techniques were contingent on the execution of said technique, a passive technique was not particrly executable and thus would not improve based on parameters such as uracy of execution.
(''Inner Divergence is contingent on timing and cement.'') Rui remembered. It was part of why his defense was that good. However, Rui wondered whether he could develop a technique even better and more synergetic with him than that.
(''What kind of principles and mechanisms would end up requiring such a high degree of uracy in timing and cement?'') Rui wondered.
He could think of a few.
(''What if I seek to create a defensive technique that... aims topletely negate any and all impacts?'') Rui wondered, absorbed in his train of thought.Content is property ? N?velDrama.Org.
Such a technique would be demonstrably overpowered. The only question was whether it was realistic or even usible in the first ce.
(''Let me dig into the fundamentals. What is an impact and why does it inflict damage?'') He asked himself, rehashing basic collision mechanics and kinematics.
An impact was simply a collision between two objects where an exchange of energy urs. The kic energies of the two objects get converted into damage or kic energy.
(''My goal is to avoid the former; letting the kic energy of an object colliding with me get turned into damage.'') Rui reiterated.
Instead of letting the kic energy of an object hitting him get converted into damage, he would rather the second option ur; where it gets converted into kic energy. In ssical mechanics, this was known as an stic collision, a collision where two objects shing into each other do not inflict damage, and the kic energy does not get converted into damage but remains as kic energy.<novelnext></novelnext>
An example of this would be two bouncy balls hitting each other. They did not damage each other, instead, they simply bounced away from each other. This was very different from two balls made out of ss that would simply break each other into pieces.
(''Following that analogy, won''t get sent flying away if I try to essentially turn myself into a bouncy ball?'') Rui wondered with a confused expression. Bouncy rubber balls were notorious for being extremely crazy and hard to control. Just the slightest sh against them wouldunch them into a frenzy.
(''It''s simr to my previous opponent, except he was quite literally a bouncy ball, where I am trying to figuratively or effectively be one.'')
Rui did not want to create a technique that would send him flying far away every time he blocked an attack, like a bouncy ball. This was the issue with trying to convert the kic energy that hit him into the kic energy of his own body rather than damage. Kic energy meant movement. Too much movement. He would not be able to even stand in one ce if he got hit. It was too impractical.
(''What if I try to get rid of my kic energy as soon as I receive it from my opponent?'') Rui wondered. If he could get rid of the kic energy in his body, that was gained from an attack, immediately after his body gains it, then he would be able to stay in one ce.
(''So basically. My opponent hits me, I convert his attack''s kic energy into the kic energy of my own in an stic collision like a bouncy rubber ball with zero damage to me, and immediately after that I get rid of the kic energy, and then I''m safe?'') Rui scratched his head.
Even he had to admit, this sounded like an absolutely crazy technique. He wasn''t even sure if it was physically possible.
For example, how would he be able to make all collisions perfectly stic? This alone was a difficult conundrum. In fact, back on Earth, absolutely perfect stic collisions with one hundred percent sticity were said to be practically impossible. Even if he didn''t need to be one hundred percent, it was still something that would be extraordinarily hard to aplish.
Furthermore, the second challenge to his proposed technique was how on Earth was he supposed to magically get rid of the absorbed kic energy in his body instantly on the spot? That was also something that seemed like it defied the principles of kinematics.
"Hmmm..." Rui pondered the idea a bit as he considered the possibilities avable at hand. The second part of the problem was definitely more difficult than the first problem. For the first problem, he already had a potential solution.
(''stic Shift... might help.'') Rui recalled his very first Apprentice-level defense technique that he had mastered many years ago. It was an active defensive technique that allowed him to hamper impacts by increasing the distance over which the impact urred. It was simr to how baseball yers caught baseballs by moving their hands along with the ball while catching them. It also made collisions more stic, and thus there was potential that the technique could end up solving part of the problems that stood in Rui''s way in the construction of his ambitious project.
"To think that paltry foundational technique I learned a long time ago would end up helping me create what will probably be the most impressive defensive technique I''ve learned this far."
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