Adaptively Evolving to War

Once the idea was planted into his head, it was impossible to get rid of. It bloomed into a full-blown plan that refused to allow him to focus his attention in any other direction. It demanded his full attention.

He could not do anything else until he got to the bottom of this idea.

Suddenly, all his determination to rush to a battlefield melted away as an even stronger desire took the initiative.

"Thank god for the manifold." 

Without it, he wouldn't have been able to have his cake and eat it. 

It was now possible for him to train a new technique before he headed out to the battlefield to reinforce an ally.

Wars lasted years. An additional month of waiting was not going to deprive him of the most important parts of the war, nor was it going to make a major difference in the experience that he would be gaining from the battle against the alliance.

"I have time for an additional technique project in the manifold," he realized.