The five of them treated the rest of the day as a holiday, peacefully relaxing after a stressful mission. They'd wandered around the town of Gallagar indulging themselves to a little fun.

"Man, I wonder who that masked dude was." Dalen thought aloud. "He was ridiculously strong."

"I wonder if he'll reform the bandit group and continue." Fae wondered.

"Unlikely." Rui pitched in. "Not any time soon, anyway. His men were slaughtered and he lost his Martial Apprentice subordinates, bar the masked Martial Artist. Rebuilding the bandit group to its former size and strength is going to take a while."

"I doubt he even wants to, in the first place." Kane said. "He kinda got his ass whooped."

They headed back to the inn after a while, heading to sleep.

The next morning, they cleaned up. Taking the opportunity to head to the Lowminer Industries branch of Gallagar. They quickly boarded the transport provided by the Lowminers, and headed straight back home. Rui used this time to gather his thoughts on the mission.

Although he was feeling pretty proud and content with his performance, looking at it more objectively he had to admit that things were pretty stacked in their favour in hindsight. They had eight Martial Apprentices against the five Martial Apprentices. It would be embarrassing if more than two managed to get away.

Still, this did not take away his sense of achievement.

just went your way, and sometimes they didn't. In his first mission, things were ridiculously stacked

he could do was be grateful and move

day passed uneventfully, and they reached Hajin, and eventually, the

really visit him before we complete

housing and transport." Fae said. "Let's just pay him a quick visit before heading

any hurry, and he was a little curious about what

given a detailed report by the Martial Apprentices of our company. Allow me to begin by expressing my gratitude, I am thoroughly grateful for your services and performance. I was quite pleased to hear that all

were just completing our mission." Fae responded. "We are

floor open

double the bonus reward." Savin smiled charmingly. "We hope we have not burdened you

immediately understood what was going on. ('He's currying favour with

he would do this. Firstly, the Martial Union was an entity that basically ruled the Kandrian Empire after the Royal Family. Kissing its ass was always a good thing

causing its failure, that too with a private Martial Apprentice. Although there was no straightforward concrete evidence asides from Wern's words, the truth was the truth and the

was somewhat unorthodox as well. It wasn't deviant as the first mission which was a whole four ranks under-graded. But the Lowminers did in fact exploit the Martial Union

mend their shaky relationship with the Martial Union. Even the

was limited to a handful of sectors and industries across a handful of towns. They could not compare to nation-wide

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