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

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

sense. If the earthen basilisks had already disseminated across the Mantian region, then there would damn well be more than the sighting of just one earthen basilisk in

through 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 saturated with layers of rock, granite and marble and other dense compounds." She

a single or even a handful Martial Apprentices alone to deal

"The danger and risk associated with this operation is far above what we can entrust Apprentices with. Especially Apprentices like yourself who aren't specialized in hunting,

multiple squads consisting of a dozen Martial Artists in total, each with sub-terranean environment-oriented Martial Art,

was worried about how the Ministry of

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

with his singular Seismic Mapping could detect the earthen basilisk, then these sub-terranean specialists would most certainly be

enough to annihilate an army of earthen basilisks." Rui said

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

not extremely weak, it had come close to killing him multiple times in their fight, and Rui had relied on preparation