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."

broke through to

this facility. It was almost certainly 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

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

nodded, before

didn't take any time at all. Their seismic signatures were loud and clear to

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

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

Now." He exerted some mental pressure on them. They quickly scurried before

truly

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

Instinct could sense earnestness hidden

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

are you doing?" Kane asked in the Kandrian

the research data."

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

want to return home with a bunch of documents about the sanitation logistics of the research facility instead

"No." Kane admitted.

won't take long." Rui

as Kane said, he couldn't under a word of what was written. But if he learned to read Vinfranese,

beneficial to him in the long

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

problem was his lack of understanding of esoteric technology based

unique to the world of Gaia, he would have no problem understanding the