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

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. They

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

before

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

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

stared at them in shock, before one of them managed to choke out a

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

this truly

gulped. "That's everything from the

earnestness

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

doing?" Kane asked in the

research data."

at him suspiciously. "Even though

replied. "You wouldn't want to return home with a bunch of documents about the sanitation logistics of the research facility

"No." Kane admitted.

take long."

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 the breakthrough to the

would surely be beneficial to him

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

understanding of esoteric technology based on

Julian aided him with the more fantastical parts of the research that were unique