Chapter 1630 Offer
The Martial Master stopped at an incredible altitude in the sky. He glanced back, snorting at Rui who had been left behind. He himself would have loved to go further, but Martial Masters too were limited by the necessity to breathe air. He couldn't any further.
The night sky glowed with an endless ocean of stars twinkling in the sky.
He fixated on them intently as his powerful vision was able to peer into them far deeper than any human possibly could.
The cognition that his Martial Mind gave him allowed him to gain an intuitive understanding of them. While he did not possess a theoretical framework for the magnificent shining existences that were embedded deep in the sky.
Interestingly enough, he never once paid any attention to the moon. In fact, his mouth curled in contempt every time he looked at the gibbous moon. He only was interested in the natural state of the universe.
He was not interested in a man-made object.
He continued spectating the night sky until dawn arrived, before finally declining from the sky, and returning to his hut.
The arrogant brat was waiting for him there. The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))
"I thought I told you to get out of here," Master Gurren growled.
"If I didn't have anything to do," Rui replied. "But I do."
"I told you, I don't teach," Master Gurren snorted.
"But you do stargaze," Rui remarked turning to the dawning sky. "Unexpected, for a Martial Master. Is that why you became a Martial Artist?"
Rui couldn't help but suspect that.
"You're awfully nosy for a brat that has no business being here," He narrowed his eyes. "Perhaps I should kill you right here and now. Nobody would ever know as long as I hide your body well."
Rui turned to the side, activating a crude breathing technique that he had created while the Martial Master stargazed all night.
He brought his hands in front of him breathing in a particular way, it created a small pocket of air that was much more dense than normal.
Master Gurren's eyes widened as the image that the light passing through the pocket air was a zoomed-in version of a distant mountain.
"That's all I was able to do overnight," Rui replied, heaving a sigh. "It doesn't rely on any energy-consuming esoteric substance that normal telescopes rely on. I presume that that is why you don't use them. However, to create a technique fit to gaze at stars, I will need to master the foundations of domain techniques."
Master Gurren narrowed his eyes as he understood the proposition that Rui was making. He had created a circumstance that not only was he offering something that Master Gurren wanted in return for a powerful foundation in domain techniques, but he had also made what he wanted necessary to fulfill what Master Gurren wanted from him.
"Who are you?" Master Gurren asked Rui with grudging curiosity.
"Just an arrogant brat, Your Mastery," Rui bowed lightly, smirking.
"Hmph, you refuse to tell me your name? Arrogant brat."
"So what do you say?" Rui asked. "We can help each other out."
Master Gurren snorted. "Hmph, you truly are arrogant...Show me that technique again."
Rui tilted his head with a smirk, raising an eyebrow.
"Alright, fine. I accept your deal." The Master begrudgingly conceded. "Now show me that technique."
"Of course," Rui replied, smiling, before demonstrating the prototypical technique.
He wasn't worried that he would be losing out on the deal by displaying the technique. He wouldn't be able to make anything meaningful from it, the physics and math behind was complex. Rui just made it look easy.
He had been doing this for a long time, after all. He had grown to become something of an expert in converting Physics to a Martial Art technique after doing it so often. Considering he had succeeded with difficult techniques like the Riemannian Echo and the Pathfinder technique, he had no doubt in his mind he could succeed with the magnification formula for a convex lens.