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.

arrogant these families were, it was simply impossible for them to 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

it wasn't as though they were

perpetually open. After all, it was just the entrance to an inner city of sorts and no one dared casually

enter the inner city. Since it was an easy method

is ridiculous, don't even worry about it." James said with a casual wave of his hand. "I don't know what you did wrong, but I assume it has something

a breath of relief. He really would rather not fall out with the Empire so quickly. He didn't have the means of dealing with them, even if he wouldn't be chased with the full brunt of their power. Plus,

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

the doors that he had just passed a misty rain. He blinked in shock, only to find that the scene before him was completely different from what he

back in time to the day he left

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

abilities? This place seems bigger on the inside than it was on the outside… There's even a sky

was rare that he could be aware

want to clear out the Ascension Province and restore its peak glory as quickly as possible, so not to mention Tier 6 and above officials, even those monsters with S-grade abilities and above were

this Fort only seems to be ten kilometers in diameter, but the truth is that it's almost double that

S-grade ability, huh.."

Leonel feeling cold. To hide such a city right beneath the eyes of so many, and for him, even with his sensory

only was he worried about their technology, he was also worried about what abilities they might have. Even if his stats destroyed them in all areas, what could he do

still been better than