Rui inhaled deeply, closing his eyes. His skin tingled as he carefully felt atmospheric fluctuations pressing against his senses. He could feel the air currents and shifts in the atmosphere all around him like watching the surface of the ocean fluctuating about.
However, he wasn’t just limited to that, he could do much more once he ‘read’ the atmospheric fluctuations. Instantly, a three-dimensional omnidirectional image of the world around him appeared in his mind. He could perceive the fauna and flora in the natural environment around him in the forest through their atmospheric signatures and sonic radiation. He could perceive them with great detail, right down to the last bit of fur on the back of a squirrel dozens of meters away.
This was the world perceived through the Tempestuous Feel technique when fully mastered
Rui then focused on Seismic Mapping as well, overlapping the sensory information both techniques supplied him. Together, the two techniques provided a more holistic, accurate, and precise image of the world to Rui.
And a greater sensory range that went beyond just the sum of the parts. Rui could sense truly far with these two techniques combined.
Rui inhaled deeply, before opening his mouth.
WHOOM!
A potent sonic bullet escaped his mouth, traveling incredibly fast and far, knocking down many dozens of trees before its momentum had finally bled out.
Rui exhaled, nodding. “Finally, it’s time, to begin with the actual development of Project Sniper.”
Two months had passed since the Martial entrance exam, and Rui had very recently mastered both the techniques that he had bought from the Martial Union. Mastering Tempestuous Feel and Sonic Bullet were merely Rui procuring the necessary tools to fulfill Project Sniper. Now that he had obtained those tools, he intended to go all out and succeed.
He looked at a tree dozens of meters away, before launching a Sonic Bullet at it.
WHOOM!
The sound bullet flew before striking the tree accurately. He repeated the exercise, but this time, with a tree more than a hundred meters away.
WHOOM!
“Tsk. Missed.” Rui tutted.
He had already known that his accuracy was nowhere near adequate. There were two reasons.
The first, of course, was his own imperfect aim. Beyond a certain distance, it was clearly evident that his aim was shit.
However, he had already come up with a potential solution.
(‘Marksmanship skill isn’t my forte. So I just need to rely on what I am good at rather than what I am not good at.’)
He intended to create a systematic way to aim the Sonic Bullet techniques at any given target. This was the first mini-phase of Project Sniper; increasing his accuracy.
The question was how he ought to go about it.
(‘The underlying condition for perfect aim is ensuring the trajectory of the attack overlaps with the target. What are the further underlying conditions to achieving that in the context of the Sonic Bullet?’) Rui wondered as he gave it deep thought, before arriving at an answer.
In order to systematically and scientifically aim at a target accurately, he needed to figure out what the launch conditions for hitting the target accurately were. Launch conditions were the parameters of the launch of the projectile that decided its trajectory; like the angle of his head, the intensity of the sound bullet etc.
In order to find out the necessary launch condition to hit a particular target properly, he needed to know the equations of the trajectory of the wavefront. If he knew the necessary equations that described the trajectory that would hit the target, he could figure out the launch conditions needed to get a perfect hit.
In order to figure out the equations describing the trajectory that would hit the target, he needed to know the distance between himself and the target, the direction of gravity relative to them, and the inclination and angle of his body relative to the target.
And that was where Tempestuous Feel and Seismic Mapping came in.
These two techniques could provide him with those variables, which would allow him to calculate the equation of the trajectory of the Sonic Bullet needed to hit his target, which would allow him to calculate the launch conditions, which would allow him to know exactly how he should launch his attack to get a perfect hit.
It was a complicated and tedious set of steps, however, if he could master this system, then he could achieve using science to aim instead of pure skill.
Of course, it would still require very accurate hand-eye coordination. Even if he figured out, in his head, how exactly he ought to launch the Sonic Bullet to get a perfect hit, he also needed to actually execute a completely accurate and perfect replication of the image that he had developed in his mind or on paper.
This would most likely require sustained practice over a long period of time. Until he managed to execute the outputs from his systemized aiming system, he would not be able to make much use of the many innovations that would be going into this project.
(‘I also should come up with a name for this new system.’) Rui thought inwardly. (‘Hm… How about the Objectively Derived Accuracy system, or the ODA System? Has a nice ring to it.’)𝑜𝓋𝐞xt.𝑐𝑶𝔪
Developing and mastering the ODA system was the most important step he had to take, but he was confident he could do it. (‘The VOID algorithm is far more complex and more difficult to master than the ODA system, but I managed to pull that off.’)
Of course, he spent more than one lifetime on the former before he succeeded, be he conveniently left that part out.
(‘The ODA system also needs to take into account atmospheric factors that could influence the trajectory of the Sonic Bullet and throw it off.’) Rui recalled. (‘Otherwise, the bullet will miss the target over truly long distances, which does increase the complexity and difficulty of the task, although still nowhere near that of the VOID algorithm.’)
He immediately began working on it, he had his work cut out for him.