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

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.

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

nodded, before heading in

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

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

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

mental pressure on them.

truly

researcher gulped. "That's everything from the

Instinct could sense earnestness hidden beneath all the

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

Kane asked in

research data." He

Kane peered at him suspiciously. "Even though you

fact, legitimate documents or just some nonsense," Rui replied. "You wouldn't want to return home with a bunch of

"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 breakthrough

surely be beneficial to him in the long

the background in mathematics and 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

only problem was his lack of understanding of esoteric technology based on all

smirked. As long as Julian aided him with the more fantastical parts of the research that were unique to the