"This..." Rui's eyebrows rose as he read through the files that contained reports of observed techniques employed by the G'ak'arkan Tribe.
A variety of long-range techniques that were truly unlike anything Rui had seen in the libraries of the Martial Union or in the field ever before.
One report spoke about a magical telekinetic-like technique that allowed the user to exert magical invisible force on anything within a certain range as though there were invisible arms extending from the user's body!
This user could simultaneously fight enemies by using this technique to exert a crushing force on their opponent, while also using the technique to form invisible barriers. Furthermore, the user reportedly possessed a lot of finesse with this technique. She was reported engaging in a variety of activities simultaneously. Trees cleanly chopped themselves into wood, food cooked, toys magically played with by the young ones, etc.
It was a magical degree of control that was hard to believe. If not for the fact that this outcome was verified by multiple sensory/stealth-oriented Martial Artists who engaged in long-range surveillance, Rui wasn't sure he would be able to accept this so easily.
Rui had no doubt that the Martial Union possessed Martial Artists that could replicate these feats, the important point was that these Martial Artists would certainly be Martial Seniors and Martial Masters. The report alleged that the Martial Artist performing these feats was a young and otherwise unremarkable Martial Squire.
This was the shocking part.
In a way, this was very similar to Rui's situation.
Rui's Pathfinder allowed him to strike targets with extreme accuracy from remarkably great distances away. No Martial Squire was likely his equal in this regard.
However, this did not apply to the Senior Realm or the Master Realm. Rui did not dare to assume that his feats were even impressive by such standards, let alone irreplicable.
Despite this, the Martial Union and the Longranger Sect greatly valued his technique. The reason for this was that it was a technique that allowed a Martial Squire to replicate a feat that should have ordinarily been impossible for Martial Squires.
Allowing Martial Artists of lower Realms to accomplish what should have otherwise been impossible to achieve was what Rui was contributing with the Void Pathfinder technique.
Evidently, the technique that he had just read about was of a similar value.
Of course, the difference was that Rui developed the Void Pathfinder technique all by himself, while the techniques of the G'ak'arkan Tribe were probably developed over an extensive period of time.
Regardless, Rui could only imagine how much the Martial Union yearned for techniques like these.
The value of such techniques was not low. Rui could easily imagine the potential these techniques had as far as strengthening the Martial Union. Although the difference wouldn't be too drastic, it was still extremely relevant.
With how powerful the Martial Union was, even a single percent boost to its net Martial power was something that was extremely valuable. It was not easy for the Martial Union to obtain such a straightforward boost.
Of course, whether this was even possible depended on the difficulty of the technique and its dissemination viability. These two factors decided how widely such a technique could be spread. Rui's Pathfinder technique scored high as far as the difficulty of mastery went and low as far as dissemination viability was concerned.
If this technique was a grade-ten technique like Pathfinder, then its value would decrease, but it would still be a highly desirable technique capable of strengthening the high-end capabilities of Martial Artists.
Rui studied the reports as he tried to figure out how the technique worked.
Of course, given that he had nothing but reports, albeit detailed, to work with, Rui wasn't particularly optimistic about his chances of figuring it out.
('But if I had to guess...')
If he had to guess, then he highly suspected that she was using a breathing technique to generate powerful wind currents, and then using intricate movements of his body to manipulate those wind currents to exert force in certain ways.
In a way, she would be manipulating objects like they were puppets, where the winds acted as the strings.
This hypothesis matched up with the observation that she was never still when applying this technique. If that was the case, then Rui had to admit that he would be more than just a little curious as to how such a technique was able in the first place. He would have loved to have mastered this technique if it was viable. However, he probably would not be compatible with such a technique in the first place.
The reason that the Pathfinder technique was a technique that he had a high affinity, compatibility, and synergy with was that the technique almost fundamentally depended on his unique strengths to be viable for him to use at all.
The technique that he was reading about was probably a grade nine or grade ten technique, Rui highly doubted that it had a difficulty lower than that.
Regardless, it was definitely valuable. Rui could easily imagine Senior Ceeran growing extremely excited at this technique.
('Actually, given the fact that he's the deputy director of the long-range research division, he's probably already aware of the matters surrounding Vilun Island, the G'ak'arkan Tribe, and the various techniques that they possess.
Given how excited he had gotten when Rui showed off what his Pathfinder technique could do, he was probably heavily involved with the analysis of the techniques of the G'ak'arkan Tribe. Hell, Rui wouldn't be surprised if he had been one of his predecessors and been dispatched to Vilun Island as a diplomat.
He could also imagine why the endeavors failed if that were the case. The Martial Senior was certainly driven, and that was probably what would disqualify him in the first place.
Rui shook his head as he continued reading through the recorded techniques and capabilities of the G'ak'arkan Tribe, growing more interested in what he read the more he did.
