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

been a Squire candidate." Rui said. "That's why

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

nodded, before

at all. Their

He told them. "Where are the research logs?

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

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

this truly all

from the inception

earnestness hidden

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

doing?" Kane asked in the Kandrian

the research

suspiciously.

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 instead of the research data

"No." Kane admitted.

long." Rui told

research that the facility had engaged in. For now, as Kane said, he couldn't under a word of what was written. But

to him in the

the background in mathematics and science 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 scientific

was his lack of understanding of esoteric technology based

with the more fantastical parts of the research that were unique to the world of