The Martial Unity

"When are they coming?" Nel groaned impatiently.

Rui sighed. "They should be here soon."

"You said that three minutes ago!" Nel retorted.

"Then stop asking every three minutes!" Rui glared at him. "Listen here young ma-"

Rui suddenly froze as he turned around, narrowing his eyes. "They're coming. Everyone scram. Fae, do the honours."

Fae immediately rushed to two large, tall trees.

BAM BAM!

With two powerful blows, the trees collapsed, blocking the usual path the shipment convoy would usually travel through.

They all immediately scattered to the sides as they hid some distance away.

Two minutes later, a few loaded carriages arrived at that spot, stopping at the collapsed broken tree trunks blocking their path.

Soon, the men emerged from the carriages, talking exasperatedly and loudly in vinfranese and sanskrit.

BAM BAM BAM BAM!

Four large Tempestuous Ripple attacks crashed onto almost all of them men, killing all those it touched.

Only four survived.

THUD

he endured. He could, at the very least, take solace in the fact that

had spared. "You're going to take us to the secret research facility. You will cooperate

masked face in shock, their legs had long given in, and they were shivering in

so

plan he had come up with had worked just fine. He wanted to draw them all out of the carriage and away from it so that the carriage would not even need to be forced into in a way that could damage it. He also killed them extremely quickly in a way that wouldn't agitate the horses too much. Both carriages and

their way in and damaging the carriage, losing the horses that would get far too agitated with all the screaming that would

they cleared the trees out of the way. Fortunately, because Rui finished the

the fact that that there no visual elements that would give away that the convoy had been hijacked by them, Rui

of them tensed, yet maintained their calm and composure. They did not want to give their presence away because of a failure to

The hatch opened.

the armed men emerged from

documents without saying a word, exactly as Rui had instructed him to. The

Just as he reached;

BAM!

"AAARGH!"

sound and screech from within the security floor startled the two Apprentices just as they were about open the door to the

before they could even

BAM BAM!

of the two carriages they were close exploded open as Rui and Fae launched themselves at the two Martial Apprentices with ferocious

Martial Apprentices been alert, focused and prepared, they might have been able to react

But they weren't.

And so, they didn't.

PEW

BAM!!!

inflicted critical injuries. Rui didn't have time to aim, precision and accuracy usually came at the cost of speed and haste, and in this scenario the latter two were more important. As long

grimaced as they leaped