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.

Unfortunately, due to the apocalypse, space was limited. So, though they

it wasn't as

was actually just a pure coincidence. The towering double doors of the mansion were perpetually open. After all,

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

hand. "I don't know what you did wrong, but I assume it has something to

He didn't have the means of dealing with them, even

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

just passed a misty rain. He blinked in

gone back in time to the day he left for school.

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

even a sky here. What's

isn't it?" James grinned as he looked toward Aina and Leonel. It was rare that he could

place while his father was recalled to the capital. Well, all Tier 6 officials and above were recalled. They want to clear out the Ascension Province and restore its peak glory as quickly as

S-grade ability. He calls it Illusion Mist. From the outside, this Fort only seems to be ten kilometers in diameter, but the truth is that it's almost double that with most of the space being taken up by this hidden

ability, huh.." Leonel

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 even if all of this Junior Governor Duke's stats

was also worried about what abilities they might have.

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