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 Squire

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 Martial Union sent us to destroy it and the researchers. They must have learned of

"There are a few more researchers alive, we'll extract the research data from them as planned, kill them, and set out. We don't have too much

all nodded, before heading

take any time at all. Their seismic signatures were loud

dialect." He told them. "Where are the research

stared at them in shock, before one of them managed to choke out a question. "What happened to the

some mental pressure on them. They quickly scurried before procuring two

this truly all there

The head researcher gulped. "That's everything from

could sense earnestness hidden beneath all

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

you doing?" Kane asked in

research

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

to return home

"No." Kane admitted.

won't take long." Rui told

to memorize all the 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

would surely be beneficial to him in the

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 research foundation.

understanding of esoteric technology based on all the

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