The Martial Unity

Rui recalled jokingly thinking that the reason he was urgently summoned was because the town of Hajin was under attack.

Now, after what Helga had told him, it didn't seem as funny as before.

"I don't understand." He replied, shaking his head. "How could this be true? The earthen basilisk had been consuming deer and gazelles voraciously for nearly a month now. If it had been reproducing every time it went on a hunting spree, then the Shaia Plains would noticeably be flooded with many earthen basilisks."

How could this revelation possibly be true. Rui would absolutely have noticed if there were hundreds of earthen basilisks running around beneath the ground.

"It reproduces by laying eggs." She stated. "The eggs have a gestation period that is unknown unfortunately. It could be a day, a week or even a month. Furthermore, the earthen basilisk hatchlings don't immediately turn into full grown adults either. The immediate danger here is not their current destructive potential, but their future destructive potential as well as their extreme elusiveness and migrative capacity."

Rui understood, nodding. The limitations in his understanding in the field of ecology were starting to show. He had compensated for this gap during the mission with his intelligent deductive and inductive reasoning, but in front of an actual professional in the field, he was no more than a rookie, an inexperienced rookie

of the earthen basilisk have been those of the target of your mission, and they were limited to the Shaia Plains." She said. "This

would damn well be more than the sighting of just one earthen basilisk in the Shaia

which sub-terranean travel is utterly impossible. Mountainous and hill regions are an absolute no-go zone for them due to the land composition being

a single or even a

this operation is far above what we can entrust Apprentices with. Especially Apprentices like yourself who aren't specialized in hunting, let alone sub-terranean

of a dozen Martial Artists in total, each with sub-terranean environment-oriented Martial Art, led by

was worried about how the Ministry of Ecology and Environment were going to deal with this,

He knew the power of an adult earthen basilisk, and he knew the power of a Martial Squire. If dozens of Martial Apprentices specialized in

even in general. If he with his singular Seismic Mapping could detect the earthen basilisk, then these sub-terranean specialists would

Squire would be enough to annihilate an army of earthen

so certain." Helga reprimanded. "If an army of earthen basilisks all attacked a MartiaL Squire, then yes, the Martial Squire is almost guaranteed to succeed. But the problem with these creatures isn't their offensive capability. It's their survivability and elusiveness as I mentioned earlier. Their high sub-terranean travel allowed them to survive even the extraordinarily dangerous environments of the Beast Domain, despite

come close to killing him multiple times in their fight, and Rui had relied on preparation and some external help to create a scheme meant to take it down. It had given Rui a hell of a fight despite this and was very difficult and tiring