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.

stared at them with bewildered

strange hair and strange eyes. They were pitch black.

need to deliver the target of the mission." he pointed to the

recognize the aura. "I'm afraid that trophies such as that are not allowed

not a trophy." He replied. "It's evidence. I would like to enter

"Evidence of...?"

fact that we killed a Martial

words sparked as they all quickly finished

done." Rui got up.

completed the post-mission protocols, he moved on

had a lot of thinking

should I do

or so days since he came out of training. Yet, it

his head a bit. ('I don't want to jump into training

wasn't as smooth and comfortable using his skillset as perhaps he would like to

was just as important as learning new techniques. If he went on learning techniques without the minimal amount of experience supplementing them, his awareness and control of his power

he also had other things he wanted

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 unique to the

had inherited from Earth. If that were the case, he would be a fool not to look deeper into the research data procured from the

the truth of the breakthrough to the Squire Realm was still something that was concealed from him

data that he had procured from the research facility