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.

can get him to fight." Rui murmured as a few

jumping past the border as he sprinted away at top speed. He never lost track of the path that

kept lookouts on 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

possibly know that there was a Martial Artist out for them. Rui had not given his identity

than three hours away by carriage, he managed

paranoid about being found; thus, he took his precautions. When he was ten kilometers from the village, he stopped using Apprentice-level techniques. If Vranil had sensory techniques, he might have

to the top of a tall tree, pulled out

didn't

entire village. Meaning the village was as large as a small town, or multiple districts because of the size of the crop

things harder

didn't want to take a risk and try infiltrating the village, if Vranil

to just 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

was surrendering himself,

Fria would not have been able to escape the Ruyloken Gang, he still wanted to be careful. It was possible that Vranil simply didn't care that a single girl managed to

and stupid, because that very well could lead to a bounty being

did, with Rui aiming to take him