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

"Thanks 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 Martial Union sent us to destroy it and the

researchers alive, we'll extract the research data from them as planned, kill them, and set out. We don't have

before heading

take any time at all. Their seismic

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

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

some mental pressure on them. They quickly scurried before

this truly all

head researcher gulped. "That's everything from the

earnestness hidden

all the documents, hastily storing the precious research

you doing?" Kane asked in

research data."

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

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 of the

"No." Kane admitted.

long." Rui told

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

be beneficial to him in

world with a far superior scientific and research foundation. He himself possessed an extremely rich background in research. As long as he could understand the language, he should be able to make some significant gains from all

of understanding of esoteric technology based on all the wondrous

as Julian aided him with the more fantastical parts of the research that were unique to the world