The Martial Unity

"Hm." Headmaster Aronian nodded. "Interesting letter. You don't want Squire Dylon to be penalized for his actions?"

"Yes sir." Rui nodded, affirming. "He certainly didn't mean any harm and the accident wasn't truly his fault. I'm certain I could force a similar reaction out of every Martial Squire that wasn't aware of that capability of mine."

"You can, can you?" Headmaster Aronian chuckled.

"I'm certain that I can." Rui reaffirmed, projecting confidence.

In truth, he didn't truly know that for a fact. But he wanted to make sure to convey that Dylon wasn't particularly at any fault.

"Your statement will be taken into consideration. However, not only can I not promise anything, I cannot divulge any information on the matter to a mere student." Headmaster Aronian firmly said.

"I see, thank you for hearing me out regardless, headmaster." Rui sighed. He couldn't really do anything beyond appealing for Squire Dylon.

"As for the other matter mentioned in the letter." Headmaster Aronian glanced back at it.

me to leave the Academy. I just wanted to consult you on the matter." Rui

any input to offer outside of encouraging you to do what you

case, I would like to graduate as soon

undertook when you enrolled in the Acadamy will be in effect

to the Martial Union until the

the total commission paid for every mission he successfully completed. The silver lining of the matter was that the Martial Union did not

the surface, but Rui understood the reason for it. The fundamental and most important goal of the Martial Academy was to produce as many competent Martial Artists as possible, not to make as much money as possible. Crippling young graduates with a brutal interest rate that would compound over the years

by debt. It would also result in an increase in the mortality

did not compound interest. Nor was there a time limit to the debt. It did not shackle the young graduates, merely put pressure

a good thing you have accumulated a lump sum of Martial credits." Headmaster Aronian chimed in. "Credits can be exchanged with the

completing missions. He would need to purchase every tool, potion, mask, and other item mandated and recommended

this time, the Martial Academy had funded the supplies for those resources, and the debt he had incurred included the cost of three years' worth of supplies of needed resources. It would take him a long time of sustained missions to repay all of the debt he owed the Martial Academy and the Martial

what classes of missions you are most interested in?" Headmaster Aronian

each class of missions before sticking to one, sometimes two classes of missions. Generally, offense-oriented Martial Artists stick with offense-oriented missions, and occasionally hunter-class missions. Defense-oriented Martial Artists did the same with defense-class missions and hunter-class as well. However, the situation was usually more complicated for non-specialists, especially non-specialists like Rui who

particular. Since his last training stage, he had