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."

"She broke through to

was almost certainly set up to research the breakthrough to the Squire Realm and they very recently succeeded. She must have been a Squire candidate." Rui said. "That's why the Martial Union sent us to destroy it and the researchers.

turned towards the other end of the facility. "There are a few more researchers alive, we'll extract the research data from them as planned, kill them, and

before

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

know you speak the international dialect." He told them.

one of them managed to choke out a question. "What

logs. Now." He exerted some mental pressure on them. They

truly

researcher gulped. "That's everything from the

Instinct could sense earnestness hidden beneath all

skimming through all the documents, hastily storing the precious research data

Kane

research data."

suspiciously. "Even

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

"No." Kane admitted.

won't take long." Rui told

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 to all this research data on

beneficial to him in the long

not true for Rui. Rui had come from a world with a far superior scientific and research foundation.

problem was his lack of understanding of esoteric technology based on all the wondrous

research that were unique to the world of Gaia, he would have no problem understanding the core of what was happening and what exactly Martial