He quickly began formulating the framework of the technique. Thankfully, he was already equipped with everything he needed to know for the technique. If it was just an inverse of the partial Flux Earther technique, then he probably didn't need to learn any new techniques or principles, he just needed to apply what he could already do and do it well.
('I use my intercept attacks elastically in the Flux Earther technique,') Rui noted. ('I transfer power across all my body in the manner that I distribute it across my body by applying a principle from the Inner Divergence technique.')
The Inner Divergence technique was a defensive technique that he used to use before he created the Flux Earther technique. It was weaker, but it was also a little easier to use and apply.
('The question is how I uniformly distribute the kinetic energy transferred from an elastic collision across the entire body,') Rui wondered as he considered a number of potential solutions.
The issue he was currently faced with was the fact that even if he used his arm to try and slowly pass the energy throughout the entire body of his opponent to universally accelerate every inch of it, the fact of the matter was that his palm was going to be applying force to the outer flesh of the body first, this would cause damage before it would accelerate the entire body. He simply could not accelerate the entirety of the body simultaneously.
('…Unless I have a way to permeate the impact past the exterior layer,') Rui's eyes widened as a simple idea passed through his head. ('I can simply use the Reverberating Lance to pass the impact throughout the entire body as opposed to permeating it in one direction to do damage on my opponent or target.')
That meant that he needed to avoid hurting them in order to get this technique to work. Reverberating Lance worked by permeating a greater proportion, than normal, of an impact through the tough flesh, muscles, and bones into the more vulnerable internal organ systems of the body to cause more damage.
However, this technique usually had one target as far as the permeation went. The internal organ systems of the body were the target of the body. If he instead increased the scope of the technique to include the entirety of the body, then he would be able to permeate the force of the technique across the entirety of the body, and thus accelerate all of it seamlessly without actually hurting the target.
It may seem a bit silly to actively ensure that you don't hurt the target, but if he did try to hurt the target, it would reduce the acceleration. He had a limited amount of energy, and he couldn't do one to its very best if he also tried doing the other. He already had a technique for hurting people using vibrations, thus this technique was something he decided would be solely focused on the displacement of the target instead of harm.
He was already convinced that the technique was extremely viable, there was no question about that. What he was not entirely sure was about how effective it would be against the ocean. He narrowed his eyes as recalled the fluid dynamics and waves that he studied in his younger days back on Earth in college. The speed of transmission of vibrations through a particular medium depended on the elasticity of the medium, which water certainly wasn't lacking. The issue was that ocean water was not molecularly bound as a whole in the way that a Martial Artist's body was. That meant that there was no way to know whether his ability would work the way he intended to.
For one, it would be difficult to make water disperse in the same direction since it wasn't bound together like an object.
('Then again, that doesn't matter in this case, I suppose,') Rui shrugged.
In this case, as long as the water didn't cross a certain boundary, it didn't matter, Rui supposed. They didn't care about anything else.
He closed his eyes as he pictured the implementation of the Reverberating Lance technique to disperse the impact across the entire body of the target. He needed to make sure to understand what that felt like.
The original Reverberating Lance technique was not meant to be used to disperse an impact across the entirety of the body uniformly, diluting it in the process. It was meant to be focused permeation to ensure that the vibrations did more damage to the internal organs. He couldn't just use the same principle in this particular training session, otherwise, only a tiny portion of the water would be dispersed to an extreme degree while most of the water would make it past him.
Even in the Flux Earther technique, he didn't bother dispersing the kinetic energy that he had absorbed in width, but depth.
In this case, he needed to distribute the impact in all three dimensions.
As much as he wanted to use the ocean for testing, he knew that he ought not to. Testing usually involved failure, and failure was unacceptable in this particular case.
('I should make sure all the major problems are out of the way before I get to the training session… but unfortunately, I can't rent housing if I don't book a training slot,') Rui sighed. ('Guess I'll have to skip to the training, I hope I'm not wrong. It would be quite awkward if I failed to hold it back on my first try.')
He wasn't too concerned though. With Forestep, even if the technique failed he would be able to salvage it in time by using the Mighty Roar Flash Blast technique. Given how fast it was, it should be able to fix his problems in time.
He immediately headed towards one of the offices to purchase a training slot. He was pleased to know that he didn't need to register his identity to the Trench Surveillance Force.
