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

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. They must have learned of its existence and

we'll extract the research data from them as planned, kill them, and set out. We don't have too much more

all nodded, before heading in

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

you speak the international dialect." He told them. "Where are the

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

some mental pressure on them. They quickly scurried

this truly all

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

earnestness hidden beneath

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

doing?" Kane asked in the

research data." He

Kane peered at him suspiciously.

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

he couldn't under a word of what was written. But if he learned to

surely be beneficial to him in the long

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 and research foundation. He himself possessed an extremely rich background in research. As long as he could understand the language, he should be able to make some significant gains from all the

esoteric technology based on all

as Julian aided him with the more fantastical parts of the research that were unique to the world of Gaia, he would have no