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 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

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

nodded, before

any time at all. Their seismic signatures were loud and

know you speak the international dialect." He told them. "Where are the research logs?

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

Now." He exerted some mental pressure on them.

truly all there

"That's everything from the inception of the research facility

Instinct could sense earnestness hidden beneath all the

he began skimming through all the documents, hastily storing

Kane asked

the research data."

peered at him suspiciously. "Even though you can't

whether these are, in fact, legitimate documents or just some nonsense," Rui replied. "You wouldn't want to return home with a

"No." Kane admitted.

won't take long."

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 Vinfranese, then he would have

would surely be beneficial to him

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

of esoteric technology based on all the

more fantastical parts of the research that were unique to the world of Gaia,