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

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 location fairly

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

all nodded, before heading in

researchers didn't take any time at all. Their seismic

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

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

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

truly

gulped. "That's everything from the inception of

earnestness hidden

the boxes as he began skimming through all the documents,

doing?" Kane asked

the research data." He

him suspiciously. "Even though you can't read

verify whether these are, in 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

"No." Kane admitted.

won't take long." Rui

was truly curious about the research 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

to him in the long

was not true for Rui. Rui had come from a world with a

esoteric technology based on all the wondrous esoteric

of the research that were unique to the world of Gaia, he would have no problem understanding the core of what was happening and what exactly Martial Squires