The Martial Unity

James' boisterous laughter filled the night sky.

"You dog." James punched Leonel's shoulder. "You actually disappeared for half a month with my sister-in-law, since when were you two moving so fast?"

Leonel laughed and shook his head. It seemed that James was still the same old James.

"We had to save your ass. Who asked you to be so useless." Leonel rebutted.

James stumbled backward, putting a hand to his chest as though he had truly been hurt.

Leonel's banter with James was light hearted and fun, but it made the officer's break out into another cold sweat barely moments after surviving through their first bout.

Though they didn't know who Leonel was, they definitely knew who James was.

Beneath the Governor Duke's family, there were several other supporting families of great, albeit lower, standing. James' Bennett family was one of these forces, or how else could he be coming out from the Governor Duke's mansion?

The truth was that this place looked like a mansion from the outside, but it was more accurately described as an estate or maybe even a castle. It looked like one massive home, but the inside was separated into the living residences of several prestigious families.

share space like this. Unfortunately, due to the apocalypse, space was limited. So, though they could live in better luxury than the normal citizens within the walls, they still had to

as

mansion were perpetually open. After all, it was just the entrance to an inner city of

Since it was an easy method to gain some easy contributions, he had come. He had just never expected that the so-called

"I don't know what you did wrong, but I assume it has

didn't have the means of dealing with them, even if he wouldn't be chased with the full brunt of

officers and led Leonel and Aina up the wide stairs and toward the

through the doors that he had just passed a misty rain. He blinked in shock, only to find

left for school.

small replica of the once luxurious city. But what still remained unchanged was the fact that unlike the outside, this place had no restrictions

outside… There's even a sky here. What's going

isn't it?" James grinned as he looked toward Aina and Leonel. It was rare that he could be aware of something these two Class A students

to clear out the Ascension Province and restore its peak glory as

calls it Illusion Mist. From the outside, this Fort only seems to be ten

ability, huh.."

such a city right beneath the eyes of so many, and for him, even with

Officers. Not only was he worried about their technology, he was also worried about what abilities they might have.

he had killed. Leonel's stats had still been better than it at the time, but its ability made it frighteningly