The Martial Unity

Chapter 2495  Destroying Secrets

Rui stepped away, repulsed at what just happened. The old beggar died then and there after his brain spontaneously melted into slop, evidently on purpose.

"What the…" Rui frowned. "He killed himself after he relayed the message?"

From Rui understood, that beggar had been in the Kandrian Empire for quite some time.

Perhaps his entire life. And then, he killed himself just like that. "By melting his brain too." Rui was able to detect the internal process although he didn't understand how it worked.

He did understand why, though.

"The Beggar Sage's mind contains all the secrets of human civilization."

He was the most knowledgeable person in the entire world and the greatest intelligence broker ever. That made his brain a priceless asset if someone figured out a way to keep it alive before it went completely braindead and managed to extract secrets from it. Thus, to protect his own secrets, he had most likely armed each of his vessels with a brain melting feature, something that Divine Doctor had most likely innovated.

Regardless, Rui quickly buried the corpse outside the town before heading on his way to the shelter, even as his mind was consumed with the task he had just agreed to take on. "Ideally, I would have loved to focus solely on Project Forge, but…"

Reality was not always so kind and cooperative.

For better or worse, he required human civilization to survive for his own benefit. Thus, he would have to work on this project alongside Project Forge.

Thankfully, it was not as difficult and mentally challenging as Project Forge was. "I just need to lower the resolution of the proto-Tree of Life system of thought by getting rid of the secondary bottom rungs of the taxonomy."

The Tree of Life in taxonomy could be categorized into several orders such as kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.

Each species had its own antithetical environment corresponding to it. And since there were trillions of species, it made the Tree of Life an extraordinarily heavy system of thought.

However, if Rui simply shared what was the average and most common antithetical environment for each genus, then the amount of data would reduce drastically because there were far fewer genera in the world than species.

The price of this simplification was that the system of thought would lose more than half of its power.

After all, a one-size-fits-all approach could not be applied within a genus because each species had a unique antithetical environment.

"But, it will have to work if it needs to be low-difficulty and high-viability." Rui heaved a sigh. "There is no way people are memorizing a trillion different environments and their various parametric values."

On top of that, Rui could go even beyond the species and look at the individual within each species—this was even more complicated than just having a unique environment for each species.

Ieyasu would need to use Megamind if he wanted to even have a chance at just memorizing the antithetical environment for each species. Rui was rather curious about whether he would be able to succeed or not. While he had succeeded with the VOID algorithm, the VOID algorithm was not as nearly as data-heavy as the Tree of Life was.

"I should be able to create a genus-limited Tree of life pretty easily, so it shouldn't interrupt Project Forge too much as long as I dedicate a few hours to it every day," Rui remarked to himself. "I might include a mind palace technique that is customized for this crisis. Or, maybe, just propose a strategy where an analytical team tells each Martial Artist what the optimal environment for each beast and monster they fight is."

That was a sub-optimal strategy and a stopgap solution at best. It was ideal if Martial Artists eventually mastered it. Martial Artists had minds that worked too fast when in combat and combat-parallel situations and thus real-time coordination with a human analyst team was too difficult.

"If things become as desperate as the Beggar Sage insists, then…" Rui narrowed his eyes. "They will need to master it. The Kandrian Empire, fortunately, has the still-in-construction Water Sect."

Among the many training resources that he had worked with Charles DiVilliers, there were resources that specifically aided with the training of the Tree of Life for when he would eventually pass on bits and pieces of it when it came to teaching people how to adaptively evolve to beasts and monsters.

"I could leverage this to spread the Water Sect around the entirety of human civilization," Rui realized with a hint of excitement. He recalled the deal that he had brokered with Guildmaster Bradt regarding the matter. The man had sensed the immense potential for profit for the sheer amount of demand there would be for Rui's Martial Art since the secret of the breakthroughs had come out. Although Guildmaster Bradt was much more concerned about surviving and staying afloat these days, the merchant in him would never allow him to squander such a brilliant opportunity when the time came. "I'll need to speak with Guildmaster Bradt over this issue once more so that we can make preparations for this," Rui concluded. "His seafaring base should be getting ready since they have accelerated the process due to the dire need for it since the inception of the Beast Incursion."

It was possible the first sets of goods and services that Guildmaster Bradt would be exporting and distributing would be that of the Water Sect. That way, he could go through with his plan while also ensuring that human civilization prevailed against the beast tides that sought to ravage it. "It's all coming together." Rui shrugged like he didn't mind it. Frankly, as horrifying as the Beast Incursion was, Rui would be lying if he didn't like how well it benefited the Kandrian Empire relative to how much it hurt their enemies. As long as the Kandrian Empire didn't suffer horrendous losses, he would much prefer this to what was going to happen had the war continued as it was going to.