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."

eyes widened. "She broke through to the Squire

this facility. It 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

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

nodded, before heading in

at all.

He told them. "Where are the

one of them managed to choke out

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

this truly all there

everything from the

earnestness hidden beneath all

boxes as he began skimming through all the documents, hastily storing the precious research data in his Mind

are you doing?" Kane

the research

Kane peered at him suspiciously. "Even

are, in fact, legitimate documents or just some nonsense," Rui replied. "You wouldn't want to return home with a bunch of documents about the sanitation logistics of the research facility

"No." Kane admitted.

long." Rui told

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

to him

Rui had come from a world with a far superior scientific and research foundation. He himself possessed an extremely rich background in

esoteric technology based

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 no problem understanding the core of what was happening and what exactly Martial Squires were in the first