The Martial Unity

"Thank you, and good luck." She got up, bowing. Yet, just as Rui was about to leave, she stopped him.

"Wait. I have something to give you."

Rui tilted his head as she reached for her neck, taking off a string necklace with what looked like a claw attached to it.

"This is the claw of a skyfringe eagle." She told him. "It protects the crops by hunting the pests and critters that destroy the crops. In our village we wear it around our necks for good fortune."

Rui wordlessly accepted it as she put it around his neck.

"Good luck." She wished him.

"Thank you, goodbye" Rui nodded as he left her humble abode.

The Hefermaine village was located a little south of the Kingdom of Grahal. Rui thought about how he was going to do this.

The first thing he needed was information. Information on the exact number of gang members in the village. The tendencies and habits; things like where they spent most of their time, what they did with most of their time and how alert they were.

He would also have liked to get as much information about Vranil Fra as he could, although he didn't expect to get much as much as he would have liked. After all, he would need to see Vranil fight in order to gain any meaningful information.

murmured

as he sprinted away at top speed. He

the path to the Hefermaine village that would inform them of the arrival of a new Martial Artist, thus Rui chose to travel parallelly to it deep in the forest, he kept track of the path from afar

could possibly know that there was a Martial Artist out for them. Rui had not

it wasn't more than three hours away by carriage, he managed to reach

kilometers from the village, he stopped using Apprentice-level techniques. If Vranil had sensory techniques, he

he was one kilometer away, he stopped. He jumped to the top of a tall tree, pulled out a portable monocular as he used it to get a good

didn't

village was as large as a small town, or

made things harder

take a risk and try infiltrating the village, if Vranil was a good sensor and detected him, then there would be

walking in wreaking havoc was because it was possible that the Ruyloken Gang would use the villagers as hostages, which inevitably would mean that they would die if

he was surrendering himself, that was

to escape the Ruyloken Gang, he still wanted to be careful. It was possible

the case, that would make Vranil a bit careless and stupid, because that very well could lead to a bounty being placed on

it basically did, with Rui