The first step he was to take now that he had already entered his training phase was to begin training his body to produce an excess of myostatin to counter the Herenal Virus when he infected his body with it. Myostatin limited muscle growth, thus training his body to produce an excess of it to counter the virus that consumed the protein was necessary to maintain his natural physique when he wasn't using Hypertrophic Surge.

The best way to do this was to simply train his body to be able to counter the virus in his body. Specifically, training it to produce excess myostatin to counter the shortage of myostatin caused by the virus. Only when the excess canceled out the shortage would his body be able to maintain its natural physique.

That was the first step. Introducing the virus into his body and ensuring the body learned to coexist with the virus by simply canceling its negative effects. The virus would eat myostatin, while the body would continuously produce it. This would create the balance allowing his body to remain as it was.

The second step was learning how to switch off the excess production of myostatin from the body.

After all, the Hypertrophic Surge technique required all the myostatin in his body to be gone. With that protein gone, the muscles would no longer be hampered and could grow bigger and stronger. That was the essence of the Hypertrophic Surge technique after all. It made his muscles grow larger and denser by getting rid of all the myostatin in the body by allowing the virus to eat or destroy all of it.

Thus, he needed a way to command the body to stop producing extra myostatin to counter the myostatin-eating virus, only then could the Hypertrophic Surge technique be activated by the virus eating up the myostatin.

This sounded extremely difficult, but he had found a viable solution for this in training methodologies that involved associating triggers with the desired triggerable effect. Unfortunately, this part required either the proficient use of self-hypnosis or hypnosis from another Martial Artist.

Rui definitely intended to learn hypnotic techniques in the future, but for now, Project Metabody took precedence. Thus he relied on the patronage of Master Deivos to get a Martial Senior to hypnotize Rui for him.

"Senior Cayne," Rui greeted the Martial Senior. "I appreciate the aid with my training."

"I wouldn't be doing it if not for Master Deivos' instructions," She grumbled. "Let's get this over with."

Rui smiled wryly. "It won't take more than a single execution of the necessary hypnotic technique."

The technique in question was simply a technique that put Rui in a mental state where he was open to mental suggestions that could take root in his mind. Subjecting himself to this technique would allow him to create new mental associations between trigger and effect events.

This could allow him to create a way to associate a trigger with the complete ceasing of the production of myostatin.

All he needed to was experience the trigger concurrently with the desired triggered effects while under the influence of the mental hypnosis technique that made him extremely open to accepting new associations subconsciously.

This meant that both the trigger and the desired trigger effects needed to be artificially generated simultaneously while under the effects of the hypnosis technique.

The trigger was a very specific breathing pattern. He found this to be the best kind of trigger. After all, he needed the trigger to be something that he could not pull by mistake. Because if it was something that could be triggered by mistake, then it would be disastrous mid-fight.

It was especially bad if it activated while he was using a different Metabody technique. He had already witnessed the outcome of using two Metabody techniques once. The idea that he could kill himself by mistake was unacceptable. Thus, he made sure to choose a breathing pattern that was extremely detached from normal breathing or any of his breathing techniques.

That covered the trigger part, but also needed to generate the zero-myostatin state in his body simultaneously to get it associated with the trigger.

That was why he was going to infect himself with the Herenal Virus, in order to create zero-myostatin states to associate with the trigger.

The two of them were in a training room with a seat armed with shackles and straps. A medical team stood nearby expectantly.

"We can begin," Rui nodded as he changed into special garments that were extremely flexible and could easily adapt to any size. Comfortably.

CLACK CLACK CLACK!

Rui heaved a sigh as the restraints on the seat strapped his body against the seat tightly. These were Squire-level restraints meant to be able to shackle even the strongest of Martial Squires.

Rui nodded to the medical team, they immediately procured a small syringe containing a translucent fluid in it.

This was the virus.

He held his breath as one of the doctors injected the fluid into Rui's blood before the medical team withdrew instantly.

Rui held his breath as if nothing happened for several seconds.

The tension in the air remained for a few minutes.

That was when it began.

"Urgh!" Rui grimaced as his body felt a ripple across it. His muscles began burning in pain as his flesh began screaming, as though it was being torn apart from the inside.

Yet he bore the pain, turning towards the Martial Senior.

"Please begi-!" CLAP! Copyright by Nôv/elDrama.Org.

A sound noise she produced before he even finished talking shook him, catching him off-guard, by the time he even fully became cognizant of what just happened, her technique had already taken effect.

Hypnosis as a field attempted to pass suggestions to the subconscious mind, bypassing the conscious barricades that existed in the way. Back on Earth, people were only capable of bypassing the conscious barrier to the subconscious mind if the targets allowed it to happen. However, Martial Artists were not bound by such limitations at all.