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

it wasn't as though they were

doors of the mansion were perpetually open. After all, it was just

with their low standing, these officers had no right to enter the inner city. Since it was an easy method to gain some easy contributions, he had come. He had just never expected that the so-called prisoners

his hand. "I don't know what you did wrong, but I assume it has something to do with entering a Zone without first registering. But, considering the timing, you entered during

means of dealing with them, even if he wouldn't be chased with the full brunt of their power. Plus, Earth was his home. He would rather

Leonel and Aina up the wide stairs and toward

different from crossing another threshold, but Leonel felt that upon stepping through the doors that he had just passed a misty rain. He blinked in shock, only to find that the scene before

back in time to the day he left for school. Royal Blue City was back and the Paradise

this couldn't have been true. At best, this was a small replica of the once luxurious city.

was on the outside… There's even a sky here. What's going on? No, it's impossible for

toward Aina and Leonel. It was rare that he could be aware

Ascension Province and restore its peak glory as quickly as possible, so

outside, this Fort only seems to be ten

S-grade ability, huh.." Leonel

power of an S-grade ability left Leonel feeling cold. To hide such a city right beneath the eyes of so many, and for him, even with his sensory abilities, to not even notice. He wouldn't be able to handle such a person in battle

he worried about their technology, he was also worried about

that metal bodied A-grade Invalid he had killed. Leonel's stats had still been better than it at the time, but its ability made it frighteningly difficult to