The Martial Unity

The answers to those questions were exactly what Rui wanted them to be. Rui had already made up his mind on how to complete the mission. He would no intentions of fighting them in the village where they were most comfortable, not immediately at least. He would draw them out to the forest and finish them before they ever even knew that their enemy was a human.

At the very least, he absolutely had to fight Vranil away from the villagers and the rest of the Ruyloken gang. That was a bare minimum condition he had created for whatever plan he would enact to complete the mission.

He had computed seventeen potential plans. Out of which only four had a reasonably high probability of success. Drawing Vranil out into the woods under the pretense of Apprentice-level beast had one of the highest probabilities of success.

Furthermore, these created the best and most advantageous circumstances for Rui to fight Vranil as well. The mentality one adopted was very different from the mentality needed to fight humans. This would work against him in their fight.

"Still, he's strong." Rui murmured. "It's been a while since the difficulty grade of my mission was inaccurate."

He thought back to his very first mission nearly two years ago.

Still, this wasn't nearly as bad as that was. The mission should have been a grade-ten mission as far as difficulty went, in Rui's opinion. Vranil was almost quite likely a grade-ten Martial Artist, instead of the grade-nine that was the estimated difficulty of the mission.

Vranil was strong. His offense was even greater than was advertised. His piercing offense was lethal.

"No, it was closer to ripping than it was piercing." Rui murmured to himself. The man had not conditioned his nails to be particularly sharp or anything of the sort. He had incredibly powerful hands and grip strength. He sheared the flesh off of the bear, which was an even more impressive feat as far as Rui was concerned.

"His defense was extremely impressive too." Rui murmured. The fact that the bear was unable to hurt his hand with its bite was quite problematic, even if the bear was already weakened and damaged immensely. Rui would not be able to win the battle with a single Stinger, most likely.

His speed, however, was unflattering. Rui definitely held a significant edge in this regard and that would most certainly turn out to be a huge boon in the fight. It was an advantage Rui intended to abuse.

For now, he had done everything he needed to. Rui merely needed to wait until the next morning,

And waited he did. He consumed a few rejuvenation potions. He had been quite exhausted from the bear chase, and he also did intend to stay up until the next day until the men went out for hunting. Falling asleep would be an absolute blunder, even if he had been trained to sleep very lightly in the Martial foundation stage.

The night passed as Rui observed the gang members on guard and patrol duty than night. It seemed as though word of a potential Apprentice-level predator in the forest had spread among the men of the Ruyloken gang, as they were all extremely tensed and alert as they patrolled the village, far more so than usual.

Soon, dawn came.

And as expected, the hunting team was loaded.

set out cautiously, early in the morning just as dawn cracked in the

beautiful day that inspired

men looked

the other. "You're making too much

it!" The other replied. "It's literally a pouch of

did you bring that

can save our lives! More

"You won't have time to reload that many times if we do find

Realization dawned on

words, he might have burst

men were one-hundred meters into

THACK

drew their attention, as they instantly turned around

a stone that fell." One sighed, before his expression turned confused. "Fell

the air grew extraordinarily

they could even begin to

THWACK

POW

BAM

...

Rui had whizzed in and broke

in pain even before they hit the ground, and Rui watched as

CRACK

man screamed as Rui crumbled an already bone with a

to finish

of the knives, walking over

coursed through their body as they understood

understood what he was

How could he not?

his heart holding him back, begging