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 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

we'll extract the research data from them as planned, kill them, and set out. We

before heading

didn't take any time at all. Their

He told them. "Where are

of them managed to choke

on them. They quickly scurried before procuring

this truly

from the

could sense earnestness hidden beneath

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

you doing?" Kane asked in the Kandrian

the research data." He

at him suspiciously. "Even though

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

"No." Kane admitted.

long." Rui told

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

would surely be beneficial to him in the

page of the research documents but that was not true for Rui. Rui had come from a world with a far superior

esoteric technology based on all the wondrous esoteric

unique to the world of