The Martial Unity

The basic ODA system that focused purely on aim was complicated enough already, but taking into account the influence of air currents, winds and breeze, temperature, and drag on the trajectory of his attack among other things to ensure an absolutely accurate hit on the target made things much more difficult.

He had yet to come up with a way to account for that. This was perhaps even more difficult than the base ODA system.

(‘I only need to account for the atmospheric condition whenever and wherever the Sonic Bullet is along its trajectory.’) Rui noted.

Only the atmospheric pocket immediately outside of the Sonic bullet could influence the sound pulse projectile at any given time, anything that was never going to come into contact with the Sonic Bullet would not be able to directly influence it.

(‘In order to fully account for the impact of the atmospheric conditions on the Sound Bullet, I need to know the precise atmospheric conditions that the bullet will face after it leaves my mouth.’) Rui noted. (‘However, how can I know the precise atmospheric conditions that my attack will face in the future after it leaves my mouth, before they happen?’)

He would effectively need to predict the future to accomplish such a feat. This was a nigh-impossible task for any Martial Artist, they were not prophets, after all.

However, this didn’t necessarily affect Rui.

(‘Temperature for any given area is a constant gradient within short intervals of time, that’s not the issue.’)

The issue was accounting for the forces of drag, pressure, and currents that would influence the trajectory of the projectile. Predicting that was much harder.

Thankfully, it wasn’t impossible.

(‘All of these factors obey the laws of physics, particularly, they are completely predictable through the classical wave equation and the equations of superposition and resonance.’)

All he needed was ample enough data on the initial conditions, and he could predict the manner and way in which the system of waves in the atmosphere would evolve. If he knew how it would evolve, then he could predict the influence that it would have on the particular trajectory involved, then he could account for those influences and alter the trajectory and his launch appropriately.

The equations were the easy part, although it had been a long time since he had finished his degree in physics, he still recalled the core of each of the subjects that he had studied, especially when his mind had grown more powerful in his second life.

The hard part was inputting all the relevant data from the Tempestuous Feel and the Seismic Mapping techniques into the relevant equations and computing the results in the briefest of moments. This was an incredibly difficult task even for Rui who was very confident in his mental math.

(‘That is where the Mental Embed technique will save my ass.’) Rui sighed.

This was the technique that involved embedding the mental and cognitive processes that occurred in the brain when executing a technique, into the Mindmirror Brain, allowing the latter to aid the former in a parallel processing fashion. Even to this day, the Mindmirror Brain aided Rui with the processing of the VOID algorithm primarily, and the other techniques secondarily.

His confidence in mastering the ODA system to the point where it become practical to apply it in long-range battles and long-range attacks was high thanks to the Mental Embed technique and the Mindmirror Brain.

And with that, the conceptual basis of the accuracy issue of the Sniper Project was completely solved. All he needed to do was begin executing the concept and bringing it to life.

The first step was optimizing the ODA system’s algorithmic protocols. The protocols would decide the manner in which Rui would obtain the desired outputs. Optimizing this was necessary because Rui didn’t want to work with an inefficient process that would increase the time period and effort needed for him to ultimately obtain the desired results. Thus he needed to simplify the equations, and find as many functional shortcuts as possible in the math to ensure that the process was as simple as possible.

This approach was very common in engineering. Referring to the purely theoretical basis of any given field that they were trying to apply was something that was tedious and inefficient. Engineers cut away all the useless redundancies that the theoretical physics nerds came up with, and extracted the very distilled essence of theoretical science that was needed to apply the science in practical applications. This left them with much simpler practical equations that would become the basis of their algorithms and programs of their development projects.

Rui was effectively doing the exact same thing, but with Martial Art instead.

He spent several hours developing the relevant and necessary simplified algorithmic protocols for the ODA System, he had been very careful and thorough, checking and rechecking his work over and over. The end product was two-phase which was still quite complicated despite his best efforts. The first phase focused purely on accuracy disregarding the effects of the atmosphere, and the second part dealt with atmospheric conditions. The second phase of protocols was completed in his mind, he needed to execute them.

After all, he couldn’t predict that deep into the future, in fact, it was very limited. He could only calculate a few seconds at the very most. This meant that the sonic bullet could only travel for a handful of seconds before it crossed the degree to which Rui could predict it.

Of course, a few seconds was still a lot considering that the Sonic Bullet could cover a kilometer in that distance.

Meaning, if everything went according to plan, then Rui could accurately snipe his opponents or targets from an enormous distance away!

Most long-range techniques did no go anywhere near as far as Rui suspected Project Sniper could, largely due to range and accuracy constraints, but Rui had ways of bypassing both. As long as everything went according to plan, of course.