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

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.

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

all nodded, before heading in

take any time at all. Their

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

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

mental pressure on them. They quickly scurried

this truly

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

sense earnestness

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

you doing?" Kane asked in

the research

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

wouldn't want to return

"No." Kane admitted.

long." Rui

data. He 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 he would have access to all this research data on the

surely be beneficial to him in the long

with a far superior scientific and research foundation. He himself possessed an extremely rich background in research. As long as he

of understanding of esoteric technology

out.') Rui smirked. As long as Julian aided him with the more fantastical parts of the research that were unique to the world of Gaia, he would have no problem understanding