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."

broke

Realm and they very recently succeeded. She must have been a

researchers alive, we'll extract the research data from them as planned, kill them, and set out. We

all nodded, before heading in

the hidden researchers didn't take any time at all. Their seismic signatures

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

before one of them managed

He exerted some mental pressure on them. They quickly scurried before procuring two sets of large

this truly

gulped. "That's everything from

earnestness

all the documents,

are you doing?" Kane asked in the

the research data."

Kane peered at him suspiciously. "Even though

to verify whether these are, in fact, legitimate documents or just some nonsense," Rui replied. "You wouldn't want to return home with a

"No." Kane admitted.

long." Rui

couldn't under a word of what was written. But if he learned to read Vinfranese, then he would have access

to him in the

a far superior scientific and research foundation. He himself possessed

of esoteric technology based on all the wondrous esoteric phenomena in

to help me out.') Rui smirked. As long as Julian aided him with the more fantastical parts of the research that were unique to the world of Gaia, he would have