The Martial Unity

The post-mission wing of Martial Union headquarters was large. It had to be, after all. Many, many missions were completed every day and each mission had post-mission protocols that needed to be completed. The Martial Union needed to procure reports and statements from the Martial Artists before official confirmation could be provided.

A lot of Martial Artists returning from missions usually gathered in the wide wing as they handled the final protocols after the mission ended.

The wing was divided into different sections for different Martial Realms, each Realm of Martial Artists had its own dedicated post-mission facility.

That was why all the Martial Apprentices in the Apprentice post-mission facility were surprised when they felt the faintest Squire-level aura in the facility.

That was strange.

They all frowned.

Squire-level Martial Artists were not supposed to be in the Apprentice post-mission facility.

What was even more strange was that it was muffled. As though someone had snuffed it. Yet, they could sense it. It was unmistakable, every Martial Apprentice knew the aura of a Martial Squire quite well, after all.

Yet, when they turned around to see what was happening, they only saw five Martial Apprentices walking towards them. None of them were emanating the faint Squire-level. No. Instead, the Squire-level aura came from a bandaged corpse that one of the Martial Apprentices dragged along the floor.

It took them a few seconds to process.

Corpse. Squire-level aura. Martial Apprentices.

Every Martial Apprentice stared at them with bewildered

corpse had strange hair and strange eyes. They were

said to one of the support staff. "I need to deliver the target of the mission." he pointed to the boxes

unable to recognize the aura. "I'm

trophy." He replied. "It's evidence. I would like

"Evidence of...?"

the fact that we killed a

as they all quickly finished up their reports and

Rui got up. "Catch

post-mission protocols, he

lot

I do now?" He wondered

since he came out of training. Yet, it felt

('I don't want to jump into

as smooth and comfortable using his skillset as perhaps he would like

he went on learning techniques without the minimal amount of experience supplementing them, his awareness and control of his power would slip. He would be ineffective and even unstable. Just like the Martial Squire that they

had other things he wanted to

need to learn to read Vinfranese.') Rui mused. He absolutely intended to get to the bottom of the research data. He was even willing to go as far as to transcribe all of it into the Kandrian dialect so that Julian could help him understand the esoteric science

that Rui could optimize his breakthrough using the scientific foundation that he had inherited from Earth. If that were the

Squire Realm was still something that was concealed from him by

mission and understanding the research data that he had procured from the research facility