The Martial Unity

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.

sometimes they didn't. In his first mission, things were ridiculously stacked against him. This was a bit of a compensation,

could do was

reached Hajin,

visit him before we complete post-mission

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

He wasn't particularly in any hurry, and he was a little curious about

my gratitude, I am thoroughly grateful for your services and performance. I was quite

mission." Fae responded. "We are appreciative of your

floor open

smiled charmingly. "We hope we have not burdened

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

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 to do. Secondly, Rui was cognizant

of Rui's first mission, directly 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 Martial Union was not stupid. They knew who was responsible for Bella's death,

whole four ranks under-graded. But the Lowminers did in fact exploit the Martial Union to

it was still in their best interests to mend their shaky relationship with the Martial Union. Even the tiniest bit of effort from the Martial Union's end could utterly annihilate every trace

and industries across a handful of towns. They could not compare to nation-wide companies or even