The Martial Unity

They were all silent for a while, trying to process the fact that they were still alive. Rui appeared calm and relaxed but in reality, his mind was a maelstrom of chaos.

('Holy shit, we beat a Martial Squire.') His eyes widened as the full gravity of their situation dawned on him. ('The Martial Union is going to go nuts when they learn about this.')

Still, the context made the situation less absurd. The Martial Squire they were facing was nerfed and shackled in several ways.

If she had been given even a month of training and even a single Squire-level technique of the weakest grade, she would have crushed them.

Rui recalled how weak he was when he first broke into the Apprentice Realm. Back then, he hadn't mastered even a single Apprentice-level technique. Any Martial Apprentice could casually toy with him with Apprentice-level techniques.

The Martial Squire was in a similar situation with the Squire Realm.

('No, her predicament was even worse.') Rui shook his head. ('At least I didn't have a new body to get accustomed to.')

If she didn't have those handicaps...

Rui sighed. "We have a mission to complete. Let's get going."

The others stirred, before nodding.

"Where's the grade-ten Martial Apprentice?" Nel asked, scratching his head.

Rui turned towards him. "That was the grade-ten Martial Apprentice."

widened. "She broke through to the

She must have been a Squire candidate." Rui said.

researchers alive, we'll extract the research data from them as planned,

before

time at all. Their seismic signatures were loud and clear to

dialect." He told them. "Where are the research logs? I want all of

them in shock, before one of them managed to choke out a

some mental pressure on them.

truly all there

researcher gulped. "That's everything from the inception of

earnestness hidden beneath

opened the boxes as he began skimming through all the documents, hastily storing the precious

doing?" Kane asked in the Kandrian

research data."

him suspiciously. "Even

to return home with a bunch of documents about the sanitation logistics of the research facility

"No." Kane admitted.

won't take long." Rui

data. He was truly curious about the research that the facility had engaged in. For now, as Kane said, he couldn't under a word of what was written. But if he learned to read Vinfranese, then he would have access

would surely be beneficial to

understand even a single page of the research documents but that was not true for Rui. Rui had come from a world with a far superior

lack of understanding of esoteric technology based on all the wondrous esoteric phenomena in

with the more fantastical parts of the research that were unique